Mike Mann is wrong about Swethas sales and here's my evidence. I've already replied to his claims on twitter and he refuses to respond, but rather post schizophrenic claims that can be easily debunked by anyone with a working brain and Google..
Let me start with a taster before I give you the main course and dessert below with
53 other verified end users. Remember in December when Mike Mann and other numpties were calling Swetha fake then she reported the sale of
conduit.xyz for $69,888 which they were all laughing about and saying "who would buy this random word in xyz for $69,888? Fake".
The site didn't get developed for over 3 months. But again undeveloped doesn't mean fake sale. Well here is the buyer.
Name: Andrew Huang
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/KAndrewHuang
Company:
Conduit.xyz
Funding amount: $7 million
Crunchbase:
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/conduit-169e
News Article:
https://www.binance.com/en/feed/post/356854
Checkmate Mike Mann.
Hopefully after reading below and getting checkmate 53 more times, you will be able to think for yourself and make a more sensible conclusions based on evidence, not the voice in your head. I'm reposting the below info from my reply on another thread. Let's debate..
If you think you can debunk me, feel free to try. I operate based on good research, verifiable facts not schizo theories that people pull out of their asses and "I can't believe it so it's not true" or "I think xyz is ugly or stupid or spam so it can't sell for much" false logic arguments..
The people saying blahblah.xyz only sold for $xxx at namescon so all xyz sales are fake, need to go back logic school..her main audience isn't at namescon and they don't buy the same types of names that sell in .com..
PART 1 -
Out of Swethas reported sales which are less than 150, I have shown evidence of 54 verifiable end users. There are more but I got bored so stopped at 54 which is enough to make my point..
Many aren't developed, some still point to Dan Landers. Does that mean it was fake? I have about 8 .coms I sold on Dan, which still have the Dan Landers since as far back as 2019. All I'm going to say is I really enjoyed spending the fake money Dan sent to my bank for my fake sales..
Anyway regarding the end users who bought Swethas xyz domains, you can check for yourself. Not all are on Crunchbase, but if you are involved in crypto/web3/nft space you'd have heard of them..
Not all are funded startups. Some were bought by individuals who made money during the bullrun or already rich & they use it as personal project sites..
The ones on crunchbase as you can see have either raised millions of dollars or are venture funds themselves that provide capital for startups..
If a site isn't developed. Doesn't mean it's a fake sale. That's just bad logic. Even Mike Mann who uses the not developed angle to attack Swetha has a history of his 5 figure reported .coms not resolving.
Besides I've been tracking some of these names and they were undeveloped for over 1 year before finally getting built..
Let's begin
1- Spiral.xyz sold for $24888. Sold to twitter..while Jack Dorsey was twitter CEO. He also owns block.xyz and uses .xyz for his other projects such as the twitter rival BLUESKYWEB.XYZ |
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/spiral-c63e
2- Paramount.xyz sold for $45000. Paramount Pictures is a global media company, owned by viacom with a net worth of $14 billion. |
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/paramount-pictures
3- Stratos.xyz sold for $9888. An investment firm that singlehandedly funded a company called REZI $100 million in November. |
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/stratos-3388
4- Mesh.xyz sold for $9888. Created by founders of of Ethereum blockchain (Consensys). Funded $729 million. |
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/consensus-systems
5- Dragonfly.xyz sold for $19888. Run by some big players like Haseeb Qureshi (renown poker player, ex dev at airbnb), Tom Schmidt (ex facebook), Rob Hadick (ex golden tree, goldman sachs). |
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/dragonfly-capital-partners-eed4
6- Alliance.xyz sold for $50000. Raised $250,000 but they're a venture capital firm that frequently funds companies millions along with other VCs.|
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/defi-alliance
7- Fractional.xyz sold for $14888. Parent company/rebrand raised $43.9 million. |
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/fractional-9225
8- Skiff.xyz sold for $2995. Raised $10.5 million. |
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/skiff-402f
9- Decent.xyz sold for $7888. Raised undisclosed amount from OrangeDAO.xyz. OrangeDAO was funded $80 million. |
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/orange-fund |
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/decent-xyz
10- Highlight.xyz sold for $7888. Raised $11 million. |
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/sea-ranch-labs
11- Arcade.xyz sold for $25500. Raised $17.8 million |
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/arcade-1e53
12- Tiptop.xyz sold for $15000. Raised $23 million |
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/tiptop
13- Matcha.xyz (I can't find how much it sold for but I think it was reported by
@DNGear . Likely 4-5 figures) . Project by 0x.org. 0x raised $109 million|
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/0x-project
14- Daylight.xyz sold for $14888 & resolves. Raised $3 million|
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/daylight-039f
15- Siren.xyz sold for $22310. Raised $5.2 million|
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/siren-acf2
16- Stir.xyz sold for $39888. Redirects to usestir.com. Raised $20 million |
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/stir-money
17- Primitive.xyz sold for $39888. Raised $12 million. |
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/primitive-89c6
18- Flip.xyz sold for $27888. Raised $6.5 million |
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/flip-ef7e
19- Destiny.xyz sold for $8895. They also own d.xyz. Raised $5 million. |
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/destiny-4736
20- Runway.xyz sold for $19888. Redirects to runway.com. Raised $4.5 million |
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/runway-financial
21- Embed.xyz sold for $14888. Raised $4.5 million |
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/embed-9c37
22- Covalent.xyz sold for $4995. Parent company Agnostiq raised $2.8 million |
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/agnostiq
23- Davos.xyz sold for $19888. Raised $500k from Polygon Ventures & undisclosed amount from 0xbeacon|
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/davos-protocol
24- Cheq.xyz sold for $2995. Raised $2 million. |
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/cheq-6953
25- Soteria.xyz sold for $4000. Parent company is bridgewest group/ventures based in New Zealand who manage around $4 billion in capital |
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/bridgewest-group
26- Ryan.xyz sold for $5888. Bought by Ryan Junee. Founder of Parsable which got $132 million in funding + Omnisio which Google acquired|
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/parsable
27- Tribes.xyz sold for $4995. Raised $3.3 million |
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/tribes-protocol
28- UpShot.xyz sold for $3995. Raised $30.5 million |
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/upshot-d781
29- OffBeat.xyz sold for $8988. Raised undisclosed amount, but investors include Mark Cuban & Atlanta Ventures. Check their LinkedIN profile for more info on the founders|
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/offbeat-media-group
30- Zapper.xyz sold for $7888. Raised $17 million. |
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/defizap
31- Dune.xyz sold for $4995. Raised $79.4 million |
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/dune-analytics
32- Talisman.xyz sold for $4995. Raised $2.5 million |
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/talisman-750e
33- Continuum.xyz sold for $6495. Raised $2 million |
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/continuumxyz
34- Hyperspace.xyz sold for $4995. Raised $4.5 million |
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/solanalysis
35- Pager.xyz (I can't find how much it sold for but I think it was reported by
@DNGear . Likely 4-5 figures). Raised $7.9 million |
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/pager-c832
36- Flare.xyz sold for $2000. Raised $11.3 million |
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/flare-networks-417a
37- Frontier.xyz sold for $9888. Raised $1.9 million |
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/frontier-wallet
38- Pallet.xyz sold for $4888. Redirects to Pallet.com. Raised $4.9 million |
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/cardea-e310
39- Islands.xyz sold for $3495. Raised $3.5 million |
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/islands-1881
40- Props.xyz sold for $7888. Raised $27 million |
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/props-6624
41- Objects.xyz sold for $6000. Bought by Jason Toff founder of things.inc. He used to work at Google & Meta. He owns rooms.xyz too. |
https://www.crunchbase.com/person/jason-toff
42- Manifold.xyz sold for $3000. One of the biggest NFT marketplaces. Raised undisclosed amount from Christies Inc. Likely a high 7 figure to low 8 figure seed funding round|
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/manifold-4ccd
43- Futureproof.xyz sold for $4500. Team behind the Wagmi United NFT which bought a football team in England (Crawley Town FC) for like $3 million & collaborated with Adidas for a merch drop.
44- Clubhouse.xyz sold for $4995. Bought by the clubhouse audio social media platform. Raised $110 million |
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/clubhouse-voice
45- Chia.xyz sold for $3995. Bought by Kevin Rose founder of DIGG & Moonbirds NFT (moonbirds.xyz + proof.xyz). |
https://www.crunchbase.com/person/kevin-rose
46- Entropy.xyz sold for $6500. Raised $27 million. |
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/entropy-5d14
47- Heyday.xyz sold for $3000. Raised $6.5 million. |
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/heyday-d38f
48- Patron.xyz sold for $9888. Investment firm that frequently funds million dollar seed rounds. |
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/patron-9285
49- Squid.xyz sold for $34888.| Squid DAO is one of the most popular DAO's in the ETH space.
50- Ante.xyz sold for $19888.| Popular & active ETH protocol
51- Fragment.xyz sold for $5300. Bought by team behind applied primate NFT. Very active within the NFT space & own multiple bored apes. |
https://twitter.com/fragmentxyz
52- Shiv.xyz. (I can't find the sales price but probably low/mid 4 figures). Bought by Shiv Madan, founder of NFT.org & Moonwalk.com |
https://www.crunchbase.com/person/shiv-madan
53- Plasticity.xyz sold for $2995. Bought by Nick Kallen an experienced software engineer who worked at Twitter. |
https://twitter.com/nk
PART 2..
The thing is for the assertion that it's a wash to even remotely not sound stupid, you'd have to claim that multi billion dollar companies like Twitter, Paramount Pictures, Yugalabs, Paradigm and others are involved in what you describe above.. because as evidenced by my research above, they have all bought some of Swethas names..
Most of the other end users that have developed their sites are crypto/web3/NFT companies, that recently got millions in funding which is verified by crunchbase..
If a company raises millions is it far fetched that they can afford a 5 figure .xyz domain? Simply Google each of her sales + Crunchbase & you'll find the end users..
If negari is remotely involved in "faking" the above sales, the only possible way that doesn't involve witchcraft would be that the parent company of Crunchbase which is Techcrunch/Yahoo which are global corporations worth billions have all come together to report fake news so a few thousand irrelevant domainers will buy a few million dollars of Daniel Negari's xyz domains for $1 each. What a good business plan. STONKS..
I am just showing data to help you identify a market trend of companies within a certain niche that got funded millions by venture capital firms, spending less than 0.5% of their budget on a domain..
Unless you want to claim that Crunchbase/Yahoo are actually working with the xyz registry to fake these funding rounds & these million dollar companies are actually either non existent or too poor to spend $10k on a domain that they are currently using on live sites which their social profiles link to..
Because that is the only possible angle remaining since these claims of fake sales have been debunked on all other fronts.