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Sells 20.com for $1.75 million to Chinese domain buyer — Jason Calacanis

Two digit domain name sells for seven digits.

Entrepreneur and investor Jason Calacanis has sold the domain name 20.com for $1.75 million to a Chinese buyer.

The prior week, Calacanis tweeted:

Got a cash offer of 1.75m for https://t.co/xfklAPjOV1;feels like that capital would be better deployed in startups. Going to take it I think

— jason (@Jason) April 11, 2017

As stated by historical Whois records at DomainTools, Calacanis purchased the domain name in 2006. It was originally registered in 1995.

Two domain name brokers were involved. Chinese domain name firm 190.com represented the buyer. 190.com has been involved with a number of high-dollar sales. Joe Uddeme represented Calacanis.

Earlier this year, the domain name 01.com was noted sold for $1.82 million. Prior to that sale, it had been a number of years since a two digit .com domain name sale had been publicly disclosed, as stated by NameBio.

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