Pool.com
Pool.com is a domain marketplace and expired-domain backordering service associated with Momentous. Michael ArringtonMichael ArringtonMichael Arrington is an American entrepreneur and investor who founded the technology publication TechCrunch in 2005, created Crunchbase in 2007, sold TechCrunch to AOL in 2010, and went on to found CrunchFund and the crypto-asset investment firm Arrington Capital.Open the full entry was CEO in 2003–2004, and Taryn NaiduTaryn NaiduTaryn Naidu is an executive and investment-firm partner whose career includes Pool.com, Rightside and Rigetti Computing. He joined Arrington Capital as partner and chief operating officer in 2023.Open the full entry also led the company.
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Key facts
Business model: Domain backordering and trading
Pool.com operated around domain re-registration and secondary trading, connecting prospective buyers with a registrar network. Its 2004 team biography placed it within the Momentous group and listed Robert HallRobert E. HallRobert E. Hall is an American economist, professor emeritus of economics at Stanford University and senior fellow emeritus at the Hoover Institution, known for research on consumption, employment fluctuations and the flat tax; he long chaired NBER’s Business Cycle Dating Committee and shared the 2026 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Michael Woodford.Open the full entry as chairman.[1]
2003–2004Arrington and Naidu
2004Expanding the domain-trading platform
Pool.com introduced an Open Listing Service to expand beyond customer-facing backorders into a back-end platform where registrars and domain owners could list names and provide their own customer interfaces.[4]
Around 2023: Shift to Web3 domains
Pool.com’s website traces its business to domain auctions and drop catching in 2003 and describes a shift to Web3 identity. Infinity Domains lets users acquire top-level domains and issue second-level names, with support listed for Ethereum and Polygon. This later product direction does not establish continuity of the early management team.[5][6]
Related Organizations, Websites, and Public Accounts
Related people and brands include Michael Arrington, Taryn Naidu, Momentous, Zip.caZip.caZip.ca was a Canadian DVD-by-mail and rental-kiosk business launched in Ottawa in 2004 and closed in 2014. Michael Arrington’s early ventures included the company.Open the full entry and Global Name Registry. The 2004 team information is historical and does not establish current management.[1]
Sources
- Domain Name Journal - Filling Niches: The Alternate Road to Riches (opens in a new window)
- Form SB-2/A (opens in a new window)
- Preliminary Revised Proxy Statement (opens in a new window)
- Pool.com Launches 'Open Listing Service' to Support Registrar-Based Re-Sale, Auctioning of Internet Domain Names (opens in a new window)
- About (opens in a new window)
- Infinity Domains by Pool.com (opens in a new window)