Dictionary.com sells for $100 Million

[doggyowner]

Thats a lot of money!

http://blog.domaintools.com/2007/07/dictionary-dotcom-sells-for-100-million/

 

[Broker]

Sure is, unbelievable how much money people have to spend. I am so poor in comparison :lol:

 

[Spade]

A fantastic site and honestly, a great sale. Congrats to the owners. They did well.

 

[Deaol]

Great sale :tu:

 

[True_Snake]

This is really huge news.

I, as a very regular user of Dictionary.com, really hope that the service is continued to be offered. Good on the owners, they really built up the site very very well :tu: .


True_Snake

 

[deleted984054565403]

I'm not the biggest answers.com fan, but that's a great sale for Dictionary.com! Hopefully Answers won't change much.

 

[htmlindex]

Wow, that's an astronomical sale!

 

[willer009]

Nice sale! Looking forward to hear Business.com selling for xxx millions... :hehe:

 

[HcDomains]

So big money.... 100 Mn.. That is

100,000,000

Looks I should develop me Domain 4answer.com, and try to sale it at the amount of 0.01% of Dictionary.com

 

[yumi]

Good news.
I have dictonary.biz

 

[AussieDomainer]

:o

That's one big sale!! However I must admit that I and I would think many other people type in that domain on a regular basis. Congratulations to the seller!

 

[kkworld]

Good news.
I have dictonary.biz

I thought you have Dictionary.biz.... :hehe:

Good luck!

 

[Techies1]

that sure is a lot of money.

 

[champ_rock]

great news

 

[italiandragon]

100 Million?

now sex.com has become CHEAP.....

It`s insane....I can`t believe it. I never typed it.

 

[godolphin]

I use it often.
Excellent news for the domaining industry.

 

[Earthian]

italiandragon - actually they purchased Lexico Publishing Group which owns the 3 domains ... (dictionary.com , thesaurus.com and reference.com) ... so it is not just a "domain-sale" but more like a company acquisition ... in a kind of similar way , the myspace.com domain was not sold for $580M ($650M according to some sources) , it was the whole company (Intermix Media) that was sold ...

(by the way , regarding MySpace , NewsCorp was recently considering to sell MySpace to Yahoo for 25% of Yahoo shares ... Yahoo's current Market Cap is ~$37 BILLION ... so that would be ~$9 BILLION (even though the some sources state $12 BILLION))





of course the "Dictionary.com" sale is great news for domainers since the names (and their traffic ... 11.5 uniques in June) played a huge part in the agreement ...





also as seen in this link answers.com are kind of in a buying streak ... bought faqfarm.com (12 million pageviews per month back then) for $2M a year ago ... and brainboost for $10M two years ago ...

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[italiandragon]

italiandragon - actually they purchased Lexico Publishing Group which owns the 3 domains ... (dictionary.com , thesaurus.com and reference.com) ... so it is not just a "domain-sale" but more like a company acquisition ... in a kind of similar way , the myspace.com domain was not sold for $580M ($650M according to some sources) , it was the whole company (Intermix Media) that was sold ...

(by the way , regarding MySpace , NewsCorp was recently considering to sell MySpace to Yahoo for 25% of Yahoo shares ... Yahoo's current Market Cap is ~$37 BILLION ... so that would be ~$9 BILLION (even though the some sources state $12 BILLION))





of course the "Dictionary.com" sale is great news for domainers since the names (and their traffic ... 11.5 uniques in June) played a huge part in the agreement ...





also as seen in this link answers.com are kind of in a buying streak ... bought faqfarm.com (12 million pageviews per month back then) for $2M a year ago ... and brainboost for $10M two years ago ...

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Thank you.....anyway when I read about these sales I wonder why I never created 1 % of that.