‘NFTs.com‘ will have a new owner after the domain was reportedly acquired for $15 million by an undisclosed buyer. The acquisition comes as the largest public domain name sale so far this year, and the second-largest public domain deal ever.
The deal was brokered by ‘Domainer.com‘ and ‘GoDaddy’. The sale was facilitated by ‘Escrow.com‘, which provided escrow services and confirmation for the transaction.
One of the Biggest Ever Domain Deals
The sale of the NFTs.com
In 2019, MicroStrategy sold the ‘Voice.com’ domain for $30 million in cash, becoming the biggest domain sale deal of the last ten years at the time. The domain name was purchased by blockchain-based social media platform Block.one, which subsequently launched blockchain-based social media platform, ‘Voice’.
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“The recent acquisition of NFTS.com
Lead broker on the deal, Matt Holden from the Domainer.com team, said:
“It was a pleasure to work with all parties involved with NFTS.com, an incredible opportunity for the buyer to acquire a category killer domain and one of, if not the best, possible ".com’s" in the entire Web3 space.” Probable Use as an NFT Marketplace The parties involved on either side of the domain deal are undisclosed, and the future plans for the ‘www.nfts.com Digital Artists claims to be a curated NFT art platform for new and established artists, art collectors, NFT drops, and collaborations in Web 3.0. NFTs.com is therefore likely to become an NFT marketplace, or a hub offering NFT services. “Although no formal plans have been publicly announced regarding a project at NFTs.com, Domainer can report that the buyer has associations with other web3 projects, such as DigitalArtists.com, which offers a curated web3 service to artists,” Escrow.com disclosed in the press release.
