.com How Convoy.com was sold for $135,000 to startup backed by Jeff Bezos

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The domain name Convoy.com sold for $135,000 to a startup that is backed by Jeff Bezos and Marc Benioff. The buyer used a brand protection agency and a generic Gmail email address for the negotiations.

Interestingly enough the domain was saved in a UDRP back in December 2010. (The Convoy startup had nothing to do with the complaint.) John Berryhill represented the owner and then seller of the domain. The complaint brought by a Hong Kong company was denied by a 3 member panel.

OnlineDomain.com talked with the seller Josh Bond about the 135k sale and tried to get some insight into the negotiations and the 2010 UDRP complaint. (It took me a while to realize that his last name is Bond and his email address in using the MrBond.com domain name...

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