Price Paid for Chat.com Last Year Confirmed to Be $15.5 Million Making It One of Top 2 All-Time Publicly Reported Domain Sales 

Last year at this time Hilco Digital Assets Managing Director Andrew Miller and fellow pioneering domain broker Larry Fischer were busy helping Hubspot Co-Founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah put together a multi-million acquisition of the super-premium domain name Chat.com. Andrew and Larry represented the seller but Andrew also served as a facilitator in bringing both sides together - a role he frequently plays due to the extraordinary high level contact list he has developed over the past two decades.

Having a hand in historic sales is nothing new for any one of these three. In 2022 Dharmesh acquired Connect.com for $10 million in the year's highest publicly reported sale (and one of the five highest ever). Andrew and Larry, working individually, together or with other partners have closed hundreds of millions of dollars worth of sales in their illustrious careers.

The exact price paid in eight-figure domain sales rarely gets released to the public and up until a few days ago, it seemed unlikely we would ever learn what Chat.com sold for in the spring of 2023. However, as Andrew noted on his LinkedIn feed, Dharmesh, during an interview on the Lenny Rachitsky podcast, revealed he had paid "$15 million+" for Chat.com. Ever since, people have been speculating about what that + represented (we were among them as having the exact price would allow us to chart the sale and give the public another great example of just how valuable top tier domains can be).

(Posted April 16, 2024)  

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