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How did you get the domain abacus.com? Awesome brand name!



Thanks! Haha, yah... that's a fun story. So, this really big bank bought a wealth management company back in 2005 named Abacus, but post-acquisition had the domain redirect to their corporate domain. Presumably, they'd invested a lot in their brand already :)

So, we LinkedIn stalked a junior IT guy, worked our way up to an IT manager, who then passed us off to someone in legal that after 4 months of continuous follow-up agreed to sell it to us.


Nice work!




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