Clarity.com Founder & CEO Reports Company Paid $3.5 Million for the Domain

In a post on his LinkedIn account this afternoon, Sam Desai, the Founder & CEO of a venture investment site previously known as Hiive.com, revealed that the company paid $3.5 million for Clarity.com to upgrade to an unforgettable, top tier domain. Visitors the old site are now redirected to the new one. The company site said Clarity "brings venture investors and opportunity together in the private market." Desai wrote, "People keep asking me, “How did you manage to get Clarity .com?” Well, the answer is pretty simple: Dollars. 3,500,000 of them, to be exact."

That's a big purchase for anybody and Desai admitted he did wonder of it was worth it but quickly added, "considering what other smart people have paid for domains, I feel a lot better about our purchase." He cited these examples:

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• Kris Marszalek acquired AI .com for $70M
• Club acquired Club .com for $10M
• Green acquired Green .com for $7.5M
• Voice .com was acquired for $30M 
• Rocket .com was acquired for $15M 
• Shopify acquired shop .com for an estimated $100M!

 "Together they point to something we believed when we made our decision - In a world where almost every idea or image can be replicated, the .com is one of the last definitive brand moats," Desai concluded. 

We will be be charting this sale when our next bi-weekly domain sales report comes out Wednesday evening, October 21. If nothing changes between now and then, the Clarity.com sale will rank as the 4th biggest publicly reported domain sale of the year to date.

Hat tip to Nikul Sanghvi (HyperNames.com) for drawing our attention to Mr. Desai's post.

(Posted October 16, 2026)   

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