US$5 Billion? For Weather.com / Weather Channel Which Is Up For For Sale

[DomainExplorer]

In The News (Full Articles):

USA Today- Weather Channel sale could open floodgates

NY Post - WEATHER CHANNEL FORECASTS BIG SALE

NY Times -Chain Said to Seek Bids for Weather Channel

Reuters - Landmark confirms may sell Weather Channel, assets

NEW YORK - The Weather Channel and its associated website weather.com have been put up for sale and could attract bids in the region of $5bn.

The sale comes amid the break-up of the Weather Channel's parent company Landmark Communications, which is privately owned. According to a report in the New York Times, JP Morgan has...

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Weather Channel and weather.com are put up for sale


Some Weather.com Stats:

Alexa Rank: 252 (As Of Jan. 03, 2008)

Compete Rank: #37 with 23,946,205 unique visitors for the month of Dec. 2007

Quantcast Rank: 61

Google PageRank: 8

Of course, the sale is for the whole company and not the domain itself.

Please let us know what you think.

 

[domainer50]

Can you buy just the domain or are you forced to purchase the company as well?

 

[MadAboutDomains]

Its a sale of a company... what do you think!

They wont just sell the domain on it's own, once bought its then up to the owner to decide what to do with the domain/company.

 

[TheBulldog]

I bid $50.

Hope they accept.

 

[DomainExplorer]

Can you buy just the domain or are you forced to purchase the company as well?

I think the only way to buy this domain is to purchase the whole company just like if you want to get hold of the domain loans.com, you might need to buy Bank of America. Some domains are really tied up to their respective company.

The sale of business.com for over $300M a few months ago is for the whole company, though I believe that the domain name is indispensably the main factor in that matter.

 

[domainer50]

Its a sale of a company... what do you think!

They wont just sell the domain on it's own, once bought its then up to the owner to decide what to do with the domain/company.

I would pay 5b for the company and name then. Why not?

 

[accent]

The only RFP so far awarded by the .Mobi registry was Weather.mobi to these guys. And then they blow out of town.

No doubt, after they got the .mobi there were no further mountains worth climbing.

 

[Devil_Dog]

after they got the .mobi there were no further mountains worth climbing.

lol, I 'bout spit my coke out just now.

 

[Name Trader]

$5B investment earning $400M/pa is a pretty good return. Murdock should eat it up.

 

[MadAboutDomains]

Its a sale of a company... what do you think!

They wont just sell the domain on it's own, once bought its then up to the owner to decide what to do with the domain/company.

I would pay 5b for the company and name then. Why not?

Sorry, I was just pretty gob-smacked that you thought that it would actually be possible to buy a companies domain and not have to take on the whole company.

It's like Google. You cant really take it away from the domain because it is it's main platform for the business. It's like taking away the cinema and DVDs away from the movies industry

 

[gazzip]

I bid $50.

Hope they accept.

I raise your $50 to $100

....but only because it also has 3,196,989 Incoming Links to it




.

 

[Ronald Regging]

$5B investment earning $400M/pa is a pretty good return. Murdock should eat it up.

Yeh, I think Murdock should buy this and then fuse it with the WSJ to create the Wallstreet Weather Channel. All Wallstreet weather, all the time.

 

[Alan Glennon]

Before I bid, could somebody please post the domain's registrar and expiration date? lol

 

[filter]

I have some nice short "Wx" (common abbreviation for "weather") LLLL.com domains for sale ... WXSV anyone ?
weatherservice.ws ? Just 1 billion each ...

 

[AzN]

Not bad, wonder if a big corp will buy it.

 

[Name Trader]

Yeh, I think Murdock should buy this and then fuse it with the WSJ to create the Wallstreet Weather Channel. All Wallstreet weather, all the time.

Fair and Balanced Weather reporting

 

[abcproductions]

We own WeatherFYI.com (For Your Information) and our asking price is slightly less than 5 billion if anyone's interested.

 

[filter]

Fair and Balanced Weather reporting

:lol:

as global warming starts to "heat up" tropical storm systems, maybe they can start a new "hurricane report" channel - call it ... I dunno, how about F5 ?

"move along folks, nothing to see here ..."

We got some nice stormy weather up here in Northern California today ... maybe time for me to start developing a few of these "worthless newbie hyphenated .info hand regs" ->

WEATHER-ADVISORY.INFO
WEATHER-ALERT.US
WEATHER-WARNING.INFO
STORM-ALERT.INFO
STORM-WARNINGS.INFO

(haven't done anything with these yet, got them a few months ago with the idea of playing with some SEO backlink-building for my micro-mini site WXOH.com - back when I wasn't quite sure if I'd ever be able to get back the ~$2.50 I paid for that particular LLLL.com, LOL! - Google finally indexed it anyway after a month or two though ...)

Well - I'm looking forward a bit more to riding the wild wind into 2008 now ...!

A billion yankee dollars here, 5 billion yankee dollars there, add it up and pretty soon euro talking about some real money!

 

[weblord]

do you need a secretary, i typed fast btw

I would pay 5b for the company and name then. Why not?

 

[lzy]

Worth every cent, all major media companies should keep a eye on this sale. :imho: