Bored.com sold for $4.5M

[tonyfloyd]

wow...Nice Eric!.....hard work pays off!!!.....Congrats man!....

 

[4u-domains]

Headline sales like this are just brilliant. The knock on affect will help us all.

Its a great and a great buy really so everyone is happy.

Everybody should be really pleased as it's communities like this that really provide a backbone to promotion the business and motivating people to developed similar websites. Without the hundreds of thousands of domainers the internet wouldn't 'quite' be the same place.
So, a pat on the back for all of us.:approve:

 

[VTEC]

Awesome !!! Congrats

 

[zizwce]

superd deal

 

[linkdomain]

congrats on big sale

 

[xmax22]

no way, this is the best sale i have seen in long time or even ever.

 

[Nova]

Yes, I ran Bored.com by myself, no partners. I started it in 1997. I have paid some programmers to create some of the pages, but I added all the content myself and thought of all the ideas for content myself. The main part of the site does not use any content management software, it is just plain html. But, there are many subpages that use programming (mostly php/mysql).

Although selling it for $4 million sounds like a lot, I also was making a lot of income running from it. I sold it because I still have over 100 other sites (such as http://www.Adoptme.com and http://www.Dumb.com ) plus over 9000 parked domains (most of which I bought in the 1990's). So, I just wanted to cash out a little and put some money in the bank.

Another reason I sold Bored.com is that it is a very Web 1.0 type site. Hopfeully the new owner can make a lot more money from it by giving it a Web 2.0 upgrade, and doing all the things I never did for it, like selling ads directly, using higher paying ad formats (I still used ad formats from the 1990's), doing link exchanges, adding content more frequently (I only added a new sites once or twice a month), doing content partnerships with other sites, etc.

- Eric

How does one complete a sale like that? Do you use escrow.com or one of the other escrow services, or do you all just sit in a room with lawyers and laptops and make the exchange to avoid the escrow fee?

 

[xmax22]

Just out of curiosity, how does one complete a sale like that? Do you use escrow.com or one of the other escrow services, or do you all just sit in a room with lawyers and laptops and make the exchange to avoid the escrow fee?

indeed i have seen supreme names just here on DNF go for way less, i want to sell my names at that price wish are much better. Its just eye blowing what is going on at live auction

 

[Theo]

indeed i have seen supreme names just here on DNF go for way less, i want to sell my names at that price wish are much better. Its just eye blowing what is going on at live auction

When you buy such domains you also buy existing content, traffic and domain age - important for Google visibility.

 

[VisualDigits]

Congrats Eric! Did you sell the entire bored.com network?

 

[xmax22]

When you buy such domains you also buy existing content, traffic and domain age - important for Google visibility.

I see now bass, Good name + $5000 to $15000 of Freelancing = $$$$$$$$$$$