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Coming
off last
month's news that Hilco
Digital Assets Managing Director Andrew
Miller helped broker the $15.5
million sale of Chat.com last year (the 2nd
highest publicly reported domain sale of all
time), anticipation has been building for Andrew's
keynote session at the upcoming NamesConGlobal
conference in Austin, Texas (June 5-8).
Thanks to George Kirikos, who just reported
the previously undisclosed $8,515,000 price
paid for Gold.com in March,
the needle on the buzz meter has just been pinned
to the right because Andrew's hands are all over
this one too. In
a post on his FreeSpeech.com
site, George revealed he found the exact price
paid for the domain in an SEC filing made
by the parent company of subsidiary JM Bullion,
the new owner of the domain. Long time readers
know George has been bringing gems like this to
light for over 20 years now. That information has
given the industry at large a huge boost in
credibility as these sales clearly demonstrate
how valuable these top tier assets can be. With
the sale a public record now, Andrew was able to
confirm George's reporting of yet another
blockbuster win for the Hilco team. Coincidentally,
Andrew also happens to be the subject of our current
cover story, titled The
Sound of Success: How Record Breaking Domain Deal
Maker Andrew Miller Keeps Hitting the Highest
Notes. If you aren't already familiar
with his story (one we first chronicled in one of
our earliest cover stories back in 2005),
checking out the new profile will give you some
great insight into how Miller has been consistently
orchestrating deals at this level for so long. We
will be adding the Gold.com sale to our charts
when our next bi-weekly domain
sales report comes out Wednesday
evening (May 15). It will take over the top spot
on our Year
To Date Top Domain Sales Chart, at a
price that is over 7 times higher than the
current leader. Gold.com will also take a place
among the 10
highest verified publicly reported sales of all
time. |
