Business.com , U$300 million and Up , in auction-again , easy4IPO

http://frankschilling.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/06/businesscom-300.html

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June 22, 2007
Business.com, $300 million and Up
http://investing.reuters.co.uk/news/articleinvesting.aspx?type=mergersNews&storyID=2007-06-22T160302Z_01_N22479402_RTRIDST_0_BUSINESS-COM-SALE-UPDATE-1.XML

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Paul Sloan reflects on this potential deal here:
http://blogs.business2.com/sloan/2007/06/businesscom-for.html
Posted at 12:37 PM in Domain Names (Domains) Permalink

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As I recall,
the old (pre-crash) Great Domains used to run an advert. that said:
"Is your next billion-dollar IPO amongst this list..?" (of Dot-com names).
I've long thought that the killer concept for top-end domains was IPO.
IPO changes all valuations spectacularly.
As a hypothetical, consider anexisting corporation that could presently go IPO for $5bill.
(smallish by today's standards),
but could make $10bill if it had a top-end flagship name with a quality built-in consumer-recognition presence.
What price would Business.com be worth to that type of IPO ?
I suspect that 400Mill. (cash+stock ?) would be considered a cheap deal.

All speculation for the future, but one thing's certain, domainers may be aheadof the loop on domains, but we're babes in the wood in the IPO commercial jungle.

***FS*** True sir.. but that stuff can be learned.. Learning when names drop and how to get them was incredibly difficult.. Subsequent challenges seem less like Everest and more like speedbumps

Posted by: Lachlan June 24, 2007 at 03:26 AM

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