Here's the story of how we paid $0 for a domain worth ~$250k
So at the beginning of the year we explored renaming in order to launch 2.0 of our product Mora.
We explored different options and we ended up falling in love with the name Mora.
But a premium 4-letter dot com can be very very expensive!!
We're just a young startup. We don't have that kind of cash. We need to hustle!
I spent hours writing down options, asking Claude how to negotiate, etc. And then i thoughtโฆ
Wait what if we did it in exchange of equity? We had great early traction so far so it didn't hurt to ask.
The folks we talked to about it thought we were crazy! Including our domain broker (shout out Justin!)
We presented the option to the seller who ended up being open to it (luckily!)
We went through some diligence and ended up closing it!
I think a great name compounds the same way a great product does. So this effort was worth it!
@Superintell_@sequoia@OfficialLoganK Logan is great and Nano Banana 2 a fantastic product/model and I've looked at them all.
Seems they will do the same in video that they've done with images.
@AGreatDomain Those founders just want an exact match if things work out they will indeed upgrade. I also see .sh getting adopted (i.e https://t.co/QFagQOmrCh) and of course .io is a popular alternative
Alert: Someone is after a one word premium .si on the forums and is paying up to $1.2k according to the post
if you have anything take a look...
Another bullish sign๐ช
It just struck me all these folks will need domain names.
Ditto with Lovable, Replit etc.
The "no-code" / Vibe coding boom is real.
Retail price of a .ai is prohibitively expensive yet .si is - by comparison - a low-cost registration fee or a good deal in the aftermarket.
In @GoogleAIStudio we are now making more than 1,200,000 apps a week (and growing) with more than 18,000,000 created since late February ๐คฏ
The progress continues!!!
@raisingfi .INC is not a bad idea for a TLD in this context. It's prohibitively expensive so everything is free and it kind of fits.
I've seen far worse.