news Domaining.com SOLD!

[Super Software]

On January 3rd in the daily newsletter, Francois Carrillo, owner of Domaining.com had announced that the domain industry’s most popular news and blog news aggregator was for sale.

Even during NamesCon Domaining was advertised for sale in the program guide. Francois has a new venture Proof.com that needed funding apparently the reason he decided to sell his most liquid asset which has several other sites and services mixed in.

Here is the gist of the message from him today as part of the newsletter to readers:

Hello, Game is over.

Next week I will announce the new owner of domaining.com.

TGIF

Francois

There is a guessing game as to the price which was quoted a couple of years ago at 1MM BIN, however most likely it closed around 250-500K range.

 

[Super Software]

First - My apologies to the 1000+ folks who read this post, FB+Twitter feeds (glad I did not include a blog post - backlash galore)

Second - Since I was asked to comment about this "mess" - I would prefer to refrain.

Third - I firmly believe valuation of such "aggregated content properties" which have a low barrier to entry will be on the low side irrespective of reach/SEO advantages/subscribers, so 250-400K is a fair price IMHO. (It took me few hours to create DomainWire.IN and with some investment+effort could take it to 10K uniques daily and with $ 1MM a new Web 3.0 business model perhaps?)

 

[Tal]

I dont know if it was the right step to sell it. (for sure not for 300k-400k)
Domaining.com need to be hold and to update it and to keep making profits.

 

[hn]

I have been following domaining but not sure how it can be valued at such a high rate. I would also agree with @hookbox that the said site does not produce any unique content and all it does is display info from multiple sites i.e. aggregrator of feeds. I think its popular because it has multiple ventures integrated like cax etc... so as a standalone venture I would be quite eager to know how much it sells for.

 

[Super Software]

I think Shane summed it up best in his tweet yesterday "Domaining.com may have, could be, might have, possibility that, rumored to, is just around the corner, a chance that, is sold" LMAO

PS: Funny how in the 140 character world we live in now people are getting creative and social! Always learning something new everyday.