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mike@friendster
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mike@friendster
@ca98am79
building Friendster and the Spaces Protocol. Domain name investor
- Replying to @MrBeastIf I win I will give whatever is in the mystery box to the person who with the most liked reply to my reply
- Sold cursor . com for $399,000. Bought for $60k in March 2023
- I won the auction for adapt. ai on Feb 7th 2022 for $6,510. Since then I have had 79 inquiries about this domain. My asking price started at $88k, went up to about $150k in 2023, then eventually moved up to $450k this year as .ai domains have been in strong demand. I got an
- Replying to @cb1crypto and @historyinmemesI went there many times in the 80’s
- I sold 6 domains in Q1 2023. Five were .io and one was .ai. Highest sale (.io) was $165,000, lowest was $10k.
- I registered a .io domain in 2019. I got one inquiry about it 2021. When I responded with my asking price ($10k), I never heard back. I considered not renewing the domain, but because of this one inquiry, I kept it. I just sold this domain on @afternic for $10k. They don't
- sold a .to domain. Launch .to for $25k. Hand registered this domain 03/21/2015 for $45.57. Held for over 10 years. One person inquired about it in 2015 and one in each of 2021, 2022, 2023. None responded after I sent asking price. Then the latest inquiry in 2025 bought it.
- I hand registered the domain name jz .io on 2013-08-04. After I registered it, I went through github and reached out to developers who had the initials J.Z, asking if they would like to buy it. Someone responded and we agreed to a deal that very same day and I sold the domain
- I sold 6 domains in Q2 2023. Four .io, one .ai and one .ly. Highest sale (.io) was $88,000, lowest was $10k. I posted about the .ly sale here: x.com/ca98am79/statu… The .ai sale was for a domain I bought in auction in March of last year for around $700 and sold one yearAnatomy of the sale of fair.ly domain name for $27,200: It started when I bought a large portfolio of .ly domains from the founder of Register.ly (Libyan Spider) in 2017 for $43k, this one included. There were some cool domain hacks in this
- Replying to @engineers_feedThis is worded wrong. There are much less chess positions than atoms in the universe. There are, however , more possible games of chess than atoms in the universe.
- I just sold a domain that I can't disclose but I hand-registered it 10 years ago. I had ten offers for it during the first year I owned it. In the second year I owned it, someone agreed to buy it for 1/30th of what I just sold it for but they backed out.
