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Niv paid $70,000 to acquire the spines.com domain name

Yehuda Niv · Revolutionizing Publishing: How AI Empowers Authors and Scales Global Storytelling with Yehuda Niv · Sep 17, 2025 · at 43:44

Yehuda Niv is the founder and CEO of Spines, an AI-driven publishing platform.

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“Spines.com. It's our website. The domain cost me 70,000 dollars.”

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The claim, plainly

Yehuda Niv paid $70,000 to acquire the domain name spines.com.

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Assessment

On September 17, 2025, then-CEO Yehuda Niv stated on 'The Innovators and Investors Podcast' that he acquired the domain name spines.com for $70,000. As of September 2026, comprehensive checks of domain sales reporting databases (including NameBio and DNJournal) contain no recorded or verified transaction data for spines.com. Furthermore, because Spines (BooxAI Technologies Ltd.) is a privately held entity, it has no regulatory or public corporate filings detailing private intangible asset acquisitions. Because private domain acquisitions conducted outside public marketplace records cannot be verified through independent public records, this claim cannot be settled with public information.

Domain sales tracking databases (NameBio, DNJournal) have no record of a public or verified transaction for spines.com.
Spines is a privately held company and has not publicly disclosed financial purchase amounts for intangible domain assets in any regulatory or audited public filing.
WHOIS records confirm ownership changes between late 2023 and early 2024 but do not disclose consideration or transaction prices.

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