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Google purchases CRR.com domain name from Telepathy for fresh TLDs

Google buys CRR.com domain from Telepathy.

It would seem that good .com domains are still highly prized, even by fresh top level domain name applicants.

Google has purchased the domain name CRR.com, and I have no doubt it was purchased for the firm’s fresh TLD subsidiary Charleston Road Registry. [Update: the domain now forwards to Google’s registry page.]

Google right now uses the long domain name CharlestonRoadRegistry.com to promote its fresh TLDs. I’m somewhat surprised it is sticking with this brand for spreading public awareness of its fresh TLDs, but if it plans to use the brand then using a shortcut of CRR.com makes a lot of sense.

Congrats are in order to Nat Cohen and his firm Telepathy, which sold the domain name to Google. Based on my knowledge of Telepathy’s domain name sales, I’d bet the domain was sold for either a high five figure amount or a low six figure amount.

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