Some recent domain sales

I already posted these on X so it seems dumb to not post them here.

  • SexualEnergy.com $14988 via Sedo last October, Viagra retreats
  • SpiceData.com $4199 via Squadhelp/Atom in March, Dune 2
  • ArtificialWomb.com $4788 via Afternic (GoDaddy) in March, Brave New World
  • HighEndRealEstate.com $9588 via Sedo in April, undersold
  • Dweeby.com $2988 via Afternic last week, fun word

 

Duud origins

I bought duud.com on 4.cn in 2017 for $1288.  I wanted an umbrella brand and I liked that Duud was short palindrome, pronounceable in multiple languages and similar to the word dude. I offered $1288 because I thought that the seller was Chinese (they ended up being Russian).

Libertarian legend

Heir to a plastic cup fortune, Kenneth Dart owns a 10% stake in British American Tobacco and large amounts of real estate in the Cayman Islands.

I particularly liked this on his Wikipedia page:

In 1994, Dart became a citizen of Belize. At that time Dart offered his residence in Sarasota, Florida, to the government of Belize as a consulate with himself as its consul. This would have allowed him to live in the United States full-time as a foreign diplomat avoiding any actions by the Internal Revenue Service; the State Department rejected the arrangement. The Reed Amendment of 1996, a tightening of U.S. tax laws concerning expatriates, was partially spurred by the Dart brothers’ renunciation of their citizenship to avoid paying taxes.