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Re:You should never spend $825K on a domain – but here’s why... by ksar on Monday November 26, 2018 @01:38PM (#18535692)
Sounding in here - I bought the domain. Let's start with it was a lot of money, and to the credit of some of the folks here it remains to be seen whether or not the purchase was prescient or not from a ROI perspective. Whichever way it goes, the purchase won't be the reason that we succeed, or fail. Reasons for the purchase are enumerated in the article, but more than anything else, we're in the trust business and our customers cross-reference our web presence before spending thousands of dollars with us via our apps. Insurance is a business with consumer scale, and best in class SaaS-like economics (very low churn, predictable CF) - in this context, we became more comfortable pulling the trigger.
Re:You should never spend $825K on a domain – but here’s why... by brador on Monday November 26, 2018 @03:07PM (#18536341)
I think you made a fantastic decision on this. When you're going for a billion dollar valuation you need to be impeccable. This domain name gets you one step closer to that and saves on a costly rebrand later + it's a high value resalable asset.

Easy IPO if you hit all the right notes. Good luck!