The Death of LeapFish.com?

rudyhernandez · Nov 17, 2007

November 17, 2007

Did anyone else notice that the Leapfish.com website is no longer a domain appraising tool?
It seems to now be associated with a company called ePerks.
It now provides real estate, new car and home improvement deals.
Both ePerks and Leapfish forward to the same url.

I remember when Leapfish first came out and was practically the only way for a domain newbie to appraise a domain.
Weird huh? I guess Estibot got the best of them :imho:

Stay informed.

Rudy
Logistik Labs

Deaol · Nov 17, 2007

leapfish, imo, was useless and gave bogus results prompting people to try and sell their domains at ridiculous prices... nevertheless, it was a tool that attracted traffic and I am sure the sale (if there was one) benefited the owner.

Len · Nov 17, 2007

I saw leapfish up for sale at Sedo earlier this year...eperks must have bought it for the traffic as they have absolutely nothing to do with domain appraisals!

notlikeyou · Nov 17, 2007

If memory serves me when leapfish was attempting to appraise domains that there was always an eperks ad at the top of the page??

SimpleDomaining · Nov 17, 2007

oh, ok , anyway it was useless tool. i hope estibot will not turn around and start to estimate house values.

exponent · Nov 17, 2007

I remember using Leapfish to appraise Leapfish, and then submitting the screenshot and offer to the owners.

deleted984054565403 · Nov 20, 2007

The ePerks logo really resembles Godaddy's logo. They're affiliated, correct?

angisson · Nov 20, 2007

Etab said:
The ePerks logo really resembles Godaddy's logo. They're affiliated, correct?

not that I am aware of -- ePerks is owned by Brabus Ventures (http://brabusventures.com/) and as far as I can tell they are not affiliated at all?

rudyhernandez · Nov 20, 2007

I'm gonna do some detective work and find out some more info.
The logos are definitely similar and alot of chatter is being said over the web that suggests people do think they are affiliated.
I'll be back to post the findings.

Rudy
Logistik Labs

Skinny · Nov 20, 2007

Hmm . . . very interesting. I hadn't noticed this. I was gonna say that Estibot killed Leapfish too (lol).

Good riddance. It was a crappy tool.

Skinny

estibot.com · Nov 20, 2007

Skinny said:
Hmm . . . very interesting. I hadn't noticed this. I was gonna say that Estibot killed Leapfish too (lol).

What I'm wondering is why do they direct a domain appraisal site's targeted traffic to something completely unrelated - real estate appraisals.

What a waste of valuable traffic IMO. The bounce rate must be 100%.

Skinny · Nov 20, 2007

That is odd Josh. Perhaps they hope that people will be interested but with an unrelated topic it seems foolish.

Skinny

rudyhernandez · Nov 21, 2007

Found some more info.

ePerks founder Ben Behrouzi previously founded Reply.com.
his site is the first of three products planned by Behrouzi.
It will charge a fee for providers to be listed on ePerks.com.
ePerks plans to make these offers worth it by driving a lot of traffic to the site.

More at:
http://www.thealarmclock.com/mt/archives/2007/07/eperks_launches.html

and at my blog:
Logistik Labs Domain Blog

Ronald Regging · Nov 23, 2007

So basically, they're just getting meaningless traffic to the site to inflate the stats for sales purposes...

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