MicroAcquire purchases Acquire.com, plans to rebrand

“You ought to drop the micro.”

MicroAcquire has purchased the domain name acquire.com and plans to rebrand.

The firm’s founder, Andrew Gazdecki, discussed the idea of rebranding on Twitter the prior week.

Drop “micro” from @microacquire?

Here’s what my team thought with comments following speaking with 1000s of startup founders over the course of the past 3-years.

Comments below 👇👇 pic.twitter.com/vkecYDvdTL

— Andrew Gazdecki (@agazdecki) October 26, 2022

MicroAcquire is a platform for buying and selling a business. It started as a site to buy and sell very modest businesses but has expanded since then. Hence, “micro” pigeonholed the firm.

Today, Gazdecki disclosed that the firm bought acquire.com:

Domain secured: https://t.co/Bm9dObEomY 🤘

Your favorite startup buyout marketplace will be reintroduce’in ourselves soon. Same mission, same vision, same purpose. Let’s go! pic.twitter.com/JCcn1CZQtc

— Andrew Gazdecki (@agazdecki) October 31, 2022

It appears the buyout occurred following Gazdecki disclosed the potential name change. A public Whois record on October 27 shows MySite Corporation in Seoul as the registrant.

I interviewed Gazdecki on Reglike Podcast #387.