100,000 Domains Sold for $164 Million

miller60 writes "Here's a news item that puts some hard data on the domain typo millionaires post from a couple weeks back. Marchex Inc. just paid $164 million to buy Name Development Ltd., an obscure company that displays pay-per-click keyword ads on 100,000 domains. It's not a stock swap, either, as $155 million of that was in cash. The seller reportedly built the portfolio by scarfing up expiring domains (including hardware-update.com, previously owned by Microsoft and linked from within the Windows 2000 OS) and replacing the content with pay-per-click ads."

Comments

Re:grrr

[Anonymous Coward]

I just clicked on that link of yours, and suddenly my virus scanner poped up, saying a trojan was being downloaded into firefox cached pages.

The Trojan horse TR/StartPage.ES

WHY? ohw god why? does this shit happen all the time? why are we as humans so stupid that we can fuck up each others and our own lives?

[wdw]

Slashdot

[prakslash]

I wonder how much this will sell for? :-)

http://slsahdot.org

Re:Slashdot

[jstave]

Cool. Now, lets see if http://slsahdot.org will be slashdotted -- excuse me -- slsahdotted.

Re:Astonished

[generic-man]

Clearly someone must click on text ads, or Overture and Google wouldn't have an advertising-centered business model to uphold.

I usually click on five or six of them just to find out what I have won as a special prize as the 865,239nd visitor to that web site!

Re:Astonished

[Steinfiend]

I hate to admit it but I had never come across Ctrl+W as a command, so I tried it. I should have guessed it wouldn't be the shortcut for "give me a latte and a back rub please".

Boy I have some off days!

Re:grrr

[Mantorp]

I was going to suggest you get definately.com but it's been taken as well.

Re:How about a new Firefox extension

[lukewarmfusion]

It could detect when you were misspelling the domain name and suggest an appropriate replacement:

You asked for slashdpt.org, but that domain is now owned by domain-snatching, spam-feeding liars that get rich because people like you can't spell/type.

Perhaps you meant slashdot.org?

Apple Tech support # was spoofed

[SethJohnson]

Back in the mid-nineties I worked at APple Technical Support here in Austin. We'd frequently get people on the phone who would say, "Did you know that if you dial 1-800-SOS-APPL with a zero in SOS you get a porn line?" I would usually tell people that was a service provided by Apple for people without internet connections.