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Voice.com domain name sells for staggering $30 million: Record breaker

Voice.com domain name sells for staggering $30 million: Record breaker

Microstrategy cashes in on one of its premium domain names, sets a high water mark.

Screenshot of Voice.com, a fresh blockchain based social media platform

MicroStrategy (NASDAQ: MSTR) sold the domain name Voice.com for $30 million, the firm disclosed today.

This is a record–by a sizable margin–for a public domain-only sale.

Blockchain-based social media platform Block.one bought the domain name in an all-cash deal facilitated by GoDaddy. It actually paid more than $30 million when you consider its undisclosed commission to GoDaddy.

Microstrategy, an enterprise analytics and software firm, owns a nice catalog of valuable domain names that it hasn’t put to use, counting Alert.com, Courage.com, Mike.com and Usher.com.

The firm has fended off attempts to steal its domains through cybersquatting claims, counting Glory.com an Emma.com.

A list of some of its best domain names is at Strategy.com.

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