WSJ Domain Name article, Enom sale, etc.. - GoFuckYourself.com

Brujah · 05-01-2006, 12:15 PM

The web site www.flashgames.com has no staff, spends no money on marketing and despite its name, offers no games. All it offers is a list of links to other game sites. Yet it earns revenue of more than $150,000 a year selling online ads.

These sites' ability to make lots of money for little investment is now attracting attention from big players. A group of investors led by former MySpace.com chairman Richard Rosenblatt is expected to announce today that it has raised $120 million from investors to build a new company, Demand Media Inc., centered on generic domain names like these. The venture has already acquired 150,000 domain names -- including flashgames.com -- and plans to aggressively acquire more. But, conscious of the limitations of these bare-bones sites, it plans to add some low-cost content in hopes of making the business even stronger.

http://online.wsj.com/article_print/...844940115.html

To provide the technology for offering upgraded content, Demand has also purchased eNom Inc., a large domain name registrar based in Bellevue, Wash. With better content, Mr. Rosenblatt says, the Web sites will appear higher in search-engine listings and thus attract more visitors. That in turn, will hopefully translate into more clicks on the links -- and more revenue.

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WiredGuy · 05-01-2006, 12:19 PM

Its hard to imagine FlashGames.com earning in excess of $12,000/month on clicked ads, but all the more to them. That's awesome. Not to mention the entire enom registrar

WG

Manowar · 05-01-2006, 12:21 PM

holy shit, they bought enom

that's intense

madawgz · 05-01-2006, 12:23 PM

what the fuck, they are going to takeover the world....

DigitalPimp · 05-01-2006, 12:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brujah

To provide the technology for offering upgraded content, Demand has also purchased eNom Inc.

Maybe it is just me but it seems strange to buy a registrar for technology to offer upgraded content.

Brujah · 05-01-2006, 12:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DigitalPimp

Maybe it is just me but it seems strange to buy a registrar for technology to offer upgraded content.

Enom has it all. They are a register with it's own successful drop catching system, they also have their own monetization setup now I believe. A stable tested API, with a large number of extras that include web hosting, full dns management, completely turnkey solutions, multi-tier reseller, privacy, full pop3, traffic statistics, monitoring, ssl certificates, and it's one of the largest. I think by 'upgraded content' they meant in relation to the Domain business they're looking to invest a lot of money in.

Brujah · 05-01-2006, 02:30 PM

I have confirmation that the article is not a rumor. Enom indeed has been SOLD.

strobi · 05-01-2006, 02:35 PM

Imagine you owned a dropcatcher like Enom and could grab all those domains at like 6$/pop. There are going to take over the world indeed. Big big news!

European Lee · 05-01-2006, 02:37 PM

Online flash games is a HUGE market place for sure.

For the last few months we've been collating a heap of data for a new project we have in te pipeline launching later this year in that genre of site

Regards,

Lee

~Ray · 05-01-2006, 02:48 PM

I have scriptgames.com , am I l33t?

polish_aristocrat · 05-01-2006, 02:56 PM

cool news, thanks for sharing

btw will this affect enom resellers like namecheap in any way?

woj · 05-01-2006, 03:40 PM

wow, interesting news indeed

fris · 05-01-2006, 09:10 PM

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05-01-2006, 12:15 PM	#1
Brujah Beer Money Baron Industry Role: Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: brujah / gmail Posts: 22,157	WSJ Domain Name article, Enom sale, etc.. The web site www.flashgames.com has no staff, spends no money on marketing and despite its name, offers no games. All it offers is a list of links to other game sites. Yet it earns revenue of more than $150,000 a year selling online ads. These sites' ability to make lots of money for little investment is now attracting attention from big players. A group of investors led by former MySpace.com chairman Richard Rosenblatt is expected to announce today that it has raised $120 million from investors to build a new company, Demand Media Inc., centered on generic domain names like these. The venture has already acquired 150,000 domain names -- including flashgames.com -- and plans to aggressively acquire more. But, conscious of the limitations of these bare-bones sites, it plans to add some low-cost content in hopes of making the business even stronger. http://online.wsj.com/article_print/...844940115.html To provide the technology for offering upgraded content, Demand has also purchased eNom Inc., a large domain name registrar based in Bellevue, Wash. With better content, Mr. Rosenblatt says, the Web sites will appear higher in search-engine listings and thus attract more visitors. That in turn, will hopefully translate into more clicks on the links -- and more revenue. Get a piece of the pie with your own Domain Droplist site! http://www.clickmojo.com/demo/ __________________ Free Premium Domain Lists and Tools at Clickmojo.com For Sale: Obscenity.com

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05-01-2006, 02:30 PM	#7
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