Mitch Thrower: Events.com acquired its domain name from CBS
Mitch Thrower · Events.com Should Have Been Hopin, Can They Acquire Their Way Back To Top? · Mar 11, 2021 · at 4:20
Mitch Thrower, co-founder and CEO of Events.com, explains how the company acquired the events.com domain name.
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“And the events.com domain name is one that we acquired from CBS. Believe it or not, it was originally owned by Bill Gross, not Pimco Bill Gross, but Idealab Bill Gross.”
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