.com The Cold Plunge Acquires Plunge.com for $250,000

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In April of this year, David Clements, CEO of Brannans, congratulated the founders of a company called Cold Plunge on its acquisition of Plunge.com. The company had been using TheColdPlunge.com for its website, and acquiring Plunge.com was a great domain name upgrade...

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[Ali Mustafa]

In April of this year, David Clements, CEO of Brannans, congratulated the founders of a company called Cold Plunge on its acquisition of Plunge.com. The company had been using TheColdPlunge.com for its website, and acquiring Plunge.com was a great domain name upgrade...

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Great example of how category-defining .com domains change perception overnight. Moving from TheColdPlunge.com to Plunge.com is not just an SEO play its a brand positioning move. One-word .coms shift a company from being “a player in the space” to feeling like the space itself. $250000 for a commercially intuitive action based word like “Plunge” actually feels aligned with where strong single word .coms have been trading.

It also reinforces an important lesson for founders the longer you wait to upgrade, the more expensive it usually becomes.

Thanks for sharing!