I’m calling shenanigans on a $99M purchase price for Shop.com.
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shop.com Shop - Shopping designed around you Shop from top brands, earn exclusive rewards, and track your packages all in one place. Now available on iOS, Android, and web. It’s an incredible name and I’m sure they got a great price. But definitely hurts to lose a domain of that caliber when it’s your company name.
I’m sure a tough decision but in the end, had to sell.
I’m sure a tough decision but in the end, had to sell.
Remember one-click checkout startup Bolt?
Looks like it’s so hard up for cash that it sold its domain to the European ride share company by the same name:View quoted post on X
On the topic of domain owners who've passed away, it's always weird seeing a recent read receipt on an old email to an owner who is dead. Just happened on one today.
Lately, people have been asking what happens to a domain name when the owner dies.
Given that Halloween is near, it’s time to let a few skeletons out of the closet.
Death comes with a lot of paperwork. Apparently, so does keeping your domain names.
When you die, your domain names don't just introduce themselves to your family. Somebody has to work out what you own, where it's registered, how to keep paying for it, and which device receives the two-factor code. This can become a fairly expensive scavenger hunt.
One family described exactly that after a webmaster died suddenly.
They got into his laptop, password manager and email, then hit a registrar account protected by a phone number his widow didn't recognize after fifty years of marriage.
The domains were nearing expiration, and the plan was to let them lapse and buy them back, (which is roughly like letting your house go into foreclosure because you want to take your chances at getting it back through an auction).
Then there are the domains valuable enough to end up in federal court. After Uzi Nissan died, Nissan.com was taken from his registrar account, and his estate sued to recover it.
A judge ordered it returned in 2024. AIR.com was the subject of another estate recovery order in 2025, directing Verisign and GoDaddy to return the name.
GoDaddy has a deceased-account recovery process, complete with legal documents, a death certificate and photo ID. Turns out "over my dead body" isn't much of a domain security policy.
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Lately, people have been asking what happens to a domain name when the owner dies.
Given that Halloween is near, it’s time to let a few skeletons out of the closet.
Death comes with a lot of paperwork. Apparently, so does keeping your domain names.
When you die, your domain names don't just introduce themselves to your family. Somebody has to work out what you own, where it's registered, how to keep paying for it, and which device receives the two-factor code. This can become a fairly expensive scavenger hunt.
One family described exactly that after a webmaster died suddenly.
They got into his laptop, password manager and email, then hit a registrar account protected by a phone number his widow didn't recognize after fifty years of marriage.
The domains were nearing expiration, and the plan was to let them lapse and buy them back, (which is roughly like letting your house go into foreclosure because you want to take your chances at getting it back through an auction).
Then there are the domains valuable enough to end up in federal court. After Uzi Nissan died, Nissan.com was taken from his registrar account, and his estate sued to recover it.
A judge ordered it returned in 2024. AIR.com was the subject of another estate recovery order in 2025, directing Verisign and GoDaddy to return the name.
GoDaddy has a deceased-account recovery process, complete with legal documents, a death certificate and photo ID. Turns out "over my dead body" isn't much of a domain security policy.
Read Full Story 👇
snagged.com/post/what-happ…
Given that Halloween is near, it’s time to let a few skeletons out of the closet.
Death comes with a lot of paperwork. Apparently, so does keeping your domain names.
When you die, your domain names don't just introduce themselves to your family. Somebody has to work out what you own, where it's registered, how to keep paying for it, and which device receives the two-factor code. This can become a fairly expensive scavenger hunt.
One family described exactly that after a webmaster died suddenly.
They got into his laptop, password manager and email, then hit a registrar account protected by a phone number his widow didn't recognize after fifty years of marriage.
The domains were nearing expiration, and the plan was to let them lapse and buy them back, (which is roughly like letting your house go into foreclosure because you want to take your chances at getting it back through an auction).
Then there are the domains valuable enough to end up in federal court. After Uzi Nissan died, Nissan.com was taken from his registrar account, and his estate sued to recover it.
A judge ordered it returned in 2024. AIR.com was the subject of another estate recovery order in 2025, directing Verisign and GoDaddy to return the name.
GoDaddy has a deceased-account recovery process, complete with legal documents, a death certificate and photo ID. Turns out "over my dead body" isn't much of a domain security policy.
Read Full Story 👇
snagged.com/post/what-happ…
If you're looking for heart-pumping domain auction porn, look no further than this piece on our role in snagging Abortion·org. 😀
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19thnews.org It took years for Abortion.org to actually be about abortion Rebecca Nall, founder of I Need An A, secured a popular website address which had long redirected visitors to anti-abortion information.