Work.com for sale for $300,000,000

http://blog.domaintools.com/2007/06/work-dotcom-for-sale-for-3m/#comment-746

Work.com for sale for $300,000,000

June 22nd, 2007 by Jay Westerdal
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Don’t get me wrong, I think the reason the company did so well was because of the press and branding it got when they bought the domain for $7.5 Million in Stock. It turns out to be $2 Million and if the company sells for $350 Million it would mean that buying the Brand cost the company less then 1% of its final sale price. So in perspective, the domain was cheap at $2M.
This is the reason I like to buy brandable domain names. A lot of credibility is given to a good brand and I don’t think these founders of Business.com would have had that creditability without their good brand. Why do kids of famous actors have such an easy time becoming successful? It is because of their parent’s branded last name, not because they are better actors than kids their age.

Doors open for famous people and good dotcom brandables. You don’t need to have a famous father any more. Just a good domain name.

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Business.com[[in-auction-again]], $300 million and Up

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1 of the most potentiallest[potential'est];-^)), buyers of Business may b Business2 ,
Business2.com may have been sending 100.000%
free typo-traffics daily+4ever to Business.com,
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Business2.com may also have been leaking many Business2's internal secrets to Business.com
via any-email-etc@Business2.com e.t.c.
Business may not know how-to-say-thank-you-Business2 is enough;--^), 2w
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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

Widely reported on other sites and forums.. I'm a bit behind the ball as the vacation continues through Sunday.
I find announcements like this surprising because the name is clearly the main thing of value in this enterprise. The software, content, user base are relatively duplicable through a little elbow grease and traffic arbitrage. Now I'm not saying that the domain name isn't worth (potential) $300 million, but I am saying that the rest of the machinations behind the curtain.. everything else is easily duplicable and not worth 300 million.. JMO of course.
This and the recent TRAFFIC auction in New York City when 217 names could have sold for cumulative 63 million, could illuminate the kind of world we might expect to find in the future.
Paul Sloan reflects on this potential deal here:
http://blogs.business2.com/sloan/2007/06/businesscom-for.html

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[[[[[[[[[ 'the edittor notes again : :::::
1 of the labels of this post is
`` buyin' a great domain = a kind o' great ad + a forever asset ''
this 'Business' case does do a best example of our this view
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even Business couldnt fetch anything back in this auction-again ,
but ,
still , @ this time , Business does have been
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fetching back the worldssssssssswide coverrage of news e.t.c. ,
many of them being of mainstreams , e.g. : wsj or reuters e.t.c. ,
how many millions USD o'[of] extra worth does that b[be] ??
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when Business was sold @ USD 7.500.000 @ 1999 ,
then 't created the instant worldssssssssswide coverrage of news e.t.c. ,
many of them being of mainstreams , e.g. : wsj or reuters e.t.c. ,
online+offline ,
how many millions USD o'[of] extra worth does that b[be] ??
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when Business was sold @ USD 7.500.000 @ 1999 ,
then 't created that worldsrecord[worldrecord] until recently ,
then
when ever the people[worldswide] were to say something about the most dear[expensive] domain ,
then they referred to Business.com ,
how many millions USD o'[of] extra worth does that b[be] ??
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Apple[[e.t.c.]] Iphone[[e.t.c.]] - .mobi[[e.t.c.]] killer ?

http://domainnamenews.com/miscellaneous/apple-iphone-mobi-killer/trackback/
http://domainnamenews.com/miscellaneous/apple-iphone-mobi-killer/

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the idea of button o' ''.com'' may b sooner or later pasted over on all handies
the idea of button o' ''.com'' should have been existing on some handies
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Apple Iphone - .mobi killer ?
By Adam Strong
Categories: Miscellaneous and Alternate Extensions Tags: Alternate Extensions, Miscellaneous.

According to reports I’ve read scattered throughout the web (like the iphone atlas ) , the coveted new Iphone comes equipped with a “.com button”.

The keyboard is dynamic. When using Safari, for instance, there is a “.com” button.
Another source IphoneNewsBlog also reports:
- keyboard has a .com button for easy url input when in safari

Not such a good thing to hear for all these .mobi folks (or any other extension for that matter). I am going to guess that the iphone will be customizable and/or hackable for geeks to make the modifications to override this but for avg Joe internet user this means more traffic for the .com

I got the tip on this story over at domainstate
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in Google (no. 1) also in MSN

http://ngadutrafik2007.ismartshare.com/domain-name-and-seo.html
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Domain Name and SEO
Posted by Mara Mei on June 15th, 2007 Print This Post

When we are talking about SEO, it’s about backlink, backlink and backlink ! But the is important thing that will effect your website position in search engine.

Domain name is important in SEO. I have good example about this case. I optimize this site for keyword “Ngadutrafik 2007″ and there is website that have domain www.ngadutrafik2007.com (not my site). This have good result in Google (no. 1) also in MSN. I try to track ho many backlink for this site and only found 2 backlink in Google and this site have 33.

So, domain name is very important, make sure you choose right domain name for your site, because you can change it after you buy it.

Tags :ngadutrafik 2007, SEO
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a 1-time's ad in a trade's magazine , U$1x,000 , with-out any guarantee

http://frankschilling.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/06/a_thousand_doma.html#comments

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June 20, 2007
A Million Domain Name Stories in this Naked City

Vern runs into guy attending the TRAFFIC domain convention in New York City who paid the price of admission solely in the hope of running into the gent from the Cayman Islands who owns three domains he wants to buy (said owner won't reply to his calls and emails for the names in question.. presumably because they're not in the business of selling their domain names or get lots of similar inquiries).

I'm not trying to make light of this gent's situation, but this post is to illustrate the unbelievable latent value in high quality generic domain names in 2007 and the gravity of the opportunity still remaining on the table. You might have sold these names yesterday for $5000 - $10000 each and click your heels at your good fortune, having paid just $60 to acquire them several years ago. This guy spent $2500 plus travel, local transport, hotels, meals (not including his time) just for the opportunity to discuss a purchase or partnership; without guarantee of a payback.

Compare these names (which don't get huge traffic or goto apart, but which represent a niche product or industry) to taking a full page ad in that industry's leading trade magazine for $10,000-$15,000, for one insertion, for [[[[[[[[[only]]]]]]]]]one month's issue, without any guarantee of "real readership" through circulation and without a parting-gift. Think about those things next time you say generic secondary market domain names are expensive.

The opportunities ahead for generic name registrants and website developers are mind-boggling.

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Count another one who made the trip to meet with me for a name. With time I think we will see allot more of that.
Posted by: Sahar Sarid June 21, 2007 at 02:22 AM

Excellent example of the inmense advantage of purchasing an "industry specific" gTLD over the comparable cost of a "one-time", major publication, ad-space purchase! A similar valid comparison could be applied to the exuberant cost of a "one-time" ad agency project. A short, descriptive and memorable "industry specific" gTLD simply blows it away!
Regards,
Sumbini
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the best type o' keysword[keyword] searching/surfing via url's bar

http://www.domainersgazette.com/cool-domain-browser-shortcut/#comment-89
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Cool Domain Browser Shortcut
By Red Thunder June 21, 2007 - 12:21 pm - Posted in Domain Tips & Tricks

everyone and their brother may already know this shortcut, but for those of you who don’t..

when you type a domain name into your browser address bar, there’s a shortcut which allows you to skip typing in www or even the .com / .net / or .org extension..

check it out..

type a word into the address bar, then hold down the Ctrl button and press enter…voila, the http://www and .com are magically appended…

now, type a word and hold down the Shift button and press enter … voila, the .net extension is appended..

if you hold down Ctrl+Shift and press enter, the .org extension gets added..

I was aware of the .com shortcut years ago, and sortof forgot it. As I was researching some names this past week, I found myself heavily leaning on it, and man it saved me about an hour over the course of the day..

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June 21, 2007 @ 1:26 pm
when I tried it with ‘cookies’, it redirected to http://corsocookies.com/ Same when i typed ‘bras’, redirected to http://www.cku.com/index.cfm. Do you know why this would happen?
***Domainer’s Gazette***- the owner of cookies.com is simply forwarding all type-in traffic to corsocookies.com.. same goes from bras.com. You can have this setting placed at your registrar, not a hard thing to do..
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in my posts ,
``keysword'' = ``keyword'' ,
``keysboard'' = ``keyboard'' , e.t.c. ,
sorry4inconveniency , ThANKye
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[[[[[[[[[ 'the edittor notes : :::::
by the way ,
in case of the shortcut 4[for] .com ,
the sweeter ’s : :::::
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@ the ordinary keysboards[keyboards] ,
the key ``ctrl” sits just under the key ``enter” save[except] the key ``fn” ,
there4 ,
really very easy2spot out ,
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if , u b[be] familiar with the arrangement of the ordinary keysboard[keysboard] ,
then ,
when u were to press the key``enter'' n[and] the key ``ctrl''
@ the same time
w/ the same right hand
u might even not need to look at that keysboard[keyboard] ,
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once u have enterred your keysword in2 the url’s bar ,
then u can press the key ``enter” n the key ``ctrl”
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w/ the same right hand ,;–^),
i.e. ,
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the virtual keysword searching//surfing via the url’s bar ,
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inputting ``www.keysword.com” results in loading out ‘the destination site faster than just
inputting ``keysword.com” , but ,
inputting ``http://www.keysword.com” loads out the fastest of course ,
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if your keysword 's already itself ``keysword.com'' ,
then ,
pressing the key ``enter” n the key ``ctrl” @ the same time
after
your inputting in2 url's bar the ``keysword.com''
does also produce all those same effects as above-mentionned ,
i.e. ,
'the result will b[be] the same
``http://www.keysword.com'' ,
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understand my [so-called] English ?;--^),

a survey by the Affiliate Marketing Association, a Tokyo-based nonprofit

http://domainsmagazine.com/Domains_17/Domain_7639.shtml
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Internet Marketing Thursday, June 7, 2007

Web Affiliate Programs Not Quite A Cash Cow

An Internet marketing business known as affiliate programs have become popular among individuals as an apparently easy means of making money...

An Internet marketing business known as affiliate programs have become popular among individuals as an apparently easy means of making money. Problems of fraud connected with the practice, however, are spreading.

An affiliate program is a performance-based advertisement business in which individuals carry advertisements for goods and services on their Web sites or blogs. If visitors to the sites purchase goods after accessing it through the ad, the owner of the Web site or blog receives a commission.

The scheme has become popular because it is easy to set up at home. There have been reports of problems, however, including cases in which people have lost large amounts of money after being given promises of easy cash.

A 40-year-old woman working for a mail-order firm in Minato Ward, Tokyo, has used an affiliate program for about a year.

She sometimes recommends her favorite cosmetics on her blog, along with advertisements for the products. If a visitor clicks on the link, the visitor is guided to other sites selling the products online.

If the visitor makes a purchase, a percentage of the sale is paid to the woman in commission.

"I have earned several tens of thousands of yen on average a month. It is attractive as a side business," she said.

A common method of getting started in an affiliate program is by registering with an affiliate service provider, who acts as an intermediary between individuals with Web sites or blogs and companies wanting to place advertisements on the Internet.

Through the provider, individuals with Web sites or blogs may choose companies for whom they would like to offer advertising space and procure graphics and other relevant data for their sites.

Commission payments of up to more than 10 percent of sales are on offer.

Anybody with a computer connected to the Internet can start the business, even at home. The growing popularity of affiliate programs among housewives, some of whom earn hundreds of thousands of yen a month, has raised its profile as a means of making extra money.

According to Yano Research Institute, a Tokyo-based economic research company, the market for affiliate programs was about 3.6 billion yen in fiscal 2002. This surged to about 31.4 billion yen in fiscal 2005 and is predicted to exceed 100 billion yen in fiscal 2008.

However, only a small number of the affiliates seem to have earned a satisfactory income from the program, according to a survey by the Affiliate Marketing Association, a Tokyo-based nonprofit organization.

The survey in 2005 of about 540 affiliate program users showed that about 43 percent reported they had earned less than 1,000 yen a month from the program. This was followed by about 27 percent who said they had made no money from the program. Only about 10 percent said they had pocketed 5,000 yen or more.

There also have been program users who made exaggerated claims in blogs, hoping they would stimulate interest in the products advertised on their sites.

The Japan Affiliate Service Kyokai, a Tokyo-based industry association of affiliate program operators, last year drew up guidelines to prevent mishaps.

In other cases, Net users lost money after being solicited by racketeers who told them they would be able to make big money easily.

A female company employee in her 30s in Nara Prefecture was contacted by telephone in October, and told that she would be able to earn at least 70,000 yen a month. The caller said she had to pay a 600,000 yen registration fee, but she lost contact with the caller shortly after transferring the money to a designated bank account.

The Tokyo metropolitan government's consumer consultation center said it has received about 40 complaints about affiliate programs since fiscal 2005.

"Some people were required to pay about 400,000 yen for training or forced to buy software costing about 900,000 yen," an official at the center said. "We recommend that people who want to start affiliate programs check very carefully when they sign a contract for a large amount of money."

Source: yomiuri.co.jp

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