In October of last year, MicroAcquire CEO Andrew Gazdecki announced his company’s acquisition of the domain name Acquire.com.
In true Gazdecki style, this exciting news was broken with a twist; the domain’s acquisition price was Tweeted as being $2,000,000 dollars. That number, was soon changed to the real figure: $200,000 dollars.
It was a slight case of a dick move, we thought at the time, but the truth is that Mr. Gazdecki was simply super happy to have spent $200k for the domain Acquire.com. His company had also filed for the registration of the matching mark soon after the acquisition took place.
Since a year ago, Andrew Gazdecki has also been asking, nicely, to acquire the dormant, matching Twitter (X) handle @acquire, by making several public statements and pleas to Elon Musk.
It’s now been a year later and the news is out: Elon Musk’s X Twitter 2.0 wants $250,000 dollars in order to release the account @acquire to them.
That’s right: Elon Musk wants to sell the Twitter/X handle for more money than it took Acquire to buy the domain name Acquire.com! LOL
Now that’s what we call a real dick move, Elon Musk. Andrew Gazdecki was more gracious in his response to the news:
Since the news is out the cost to free @acquire for the love of startups is $250,000 (more than the domain).
Unfortunately we’re happy with @acquiredotcom for $0.00.
We had a blast chasing that handle because the answer is always no unless you ask! Congrats to the future owner! pic.twitter.com/cNsWFFxB8m
— Andrew Gazdecki (@agazdecki) November 4, 2023
It’s really unfortunate that Elon Musk’s model of monetizing expired or dormant accounts deprives the use of the matching handle @acquire by the company that deserves it the most.
