sales HomeAway bought VacationRentals.com domain for $35 million solely to keep it from Expedia

[News]

Sharples, shares some of his lessons learned at the 2011 Capital Factory Demo Day, just after HomeAway’s successful IPO. Watch this talk for a funny and informative list of Lessons Learned from one of Austin’s biggest success stories.

In particular, I took note where Sharples says “we bought VacationRentals.com for $35 million bucks. The only reason we bought it was so that Expedia couldn’t have that URL.”

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[Alessandro Couteau]

Old news really

 

[RU]

old

Aug 12, 2016

 

[Manik]

This news is from 2015.

 

[Phgauge000]

How about VacationHome.rentals ? Maybe they would like this one as well