{"id":4865,"date":"2015-10-09T12:55:57","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T16:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/?p=4865"},"modified":"2015-10-09T12:57:30","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T16:57:30","slug":"how-i-first-found-out-about-escrow-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/how-i-first-found-out-about-escrow-com\/","title":{"rendered":"How I first found out about Escrow.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my early domain registrations was a four letter .com, COVX.com.<\/p>\n<p>I registered it on a &#8220;whim&#8221; in late 2000, while owning just a handful of other domains, because it was short and sounded edgy.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, I only pursued domain registrations as brand ideas only. There were very little resources about domains, and no organized forums that I could locate.<\/p>\n<p>A little over a year later, COVX.com became one of my first end-user sales. The offer was $250, I wanted $750. We settled at $500 and the money was sent via PayPal.<\/p>\n<p>This was the first time I heard of Escrow.com, as my buyer wanted to use it.<\/p>\n<p>He said I sounded honest, but he had been burned before. Not being familiar with Escrow.com, I insisted on using PayPal, to which he eventually agreed.<\/p>\n<p>The exchange was smooth, and we parted ways.<\/p>\n<p>COVX.com became the domain used by the pharmaceutical corporation CovX, that was acquired in 2007 by Pfizer, for $164 million.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, I&#8217;ve numerous domains sales where a domain I sold was used for an established corporation, or eventually became the epicenter of a successful business, but this one is by far the largest.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also the reason I started using <a href=\"http:\/\/Escrow.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Escrow.com<\/strong><\/a>. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my early domain registrations was a four letter .com, COVX.com. 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