1.6 billion USD domain

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    Now that's a sale!

    World's biggest genealogy website Ancestry.com agrees to whopping $1.6 billion buyout

    475 million USD in 2011 revenues... whopping figures!
     
    giorgioarmani, Oct 24, 2012 IP
  2. daftdog

    daftdog Active Member

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    Do you know who bought it???
     
    daftdog, Oct 24, 2012 IP
  3. giorgioarmani

    giorgioarmani Well-Known Member

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    Yes, PE firm PERMIRA.
     
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    daftdog Active Member

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    Giants then.....be nice to buy a site for that amount....
     
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    850 employees...that's crazy. Reminds me of godaddy with 3500 employees...like the tech boom all over again.
     
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    I think its high value is not its domain name but its content with its dbase
     
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    jsmarketing9 Peon

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    WOW.. this is crazy news for sure!
     
    jsmarketing9, Nov 2, 2012 IP
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    matt_62 Prominent Member

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    be nicer to sell a site for that amount....
     
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    onlinealisveris Peon

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    woaww nice money
     
    onlinealisveris, Nov 2, 2012 IP
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    That is a good sale. Did not expect to pass a billion though. Didn't know they made 500 million a year ahaha.
     
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    asalarcon Greenhorn

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    Makes me wish I could go back in time and grab that domain name, hehe.
     
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    this is a great sale :)

    yes :) its a sale of business than just a domain name
     
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    OnlineStartups Peon

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    The value in this website lies purely in its data. This is what the world is about - data, data, data - the more you have of it the more powerful you become.
     
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