Comments on: Will Microsoft Finally Buy Yahoo.com???

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By: Conor Neu

Conor Neu — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 00:12:54 +0000

Heck of a call and uncanny timing. The first thing I thought when I saw the news this morning was that I am going to start investing in any new rumors you write about.

By: admin

admin — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 20:21:06 +0000

Thanks

Guys

Now we will have to see if this will be good for us as domainers or not.

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:30:47 +0000

ok “admin” your mynew hero

By: Peter @ Domainer's Gazette

Peter @ Domainer's Gazette — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:17:16 +0000

you called it.. just read this report this morning:

Microsoft offers $44.6 billion for Yahoo

Associated Press
Published on: 02/01/08

http://www.ajc.com/business/content/business/stories/2008/02/01/microsoft_0201.html?cxntlid=homepage_tab_newstab

By: Greg Nelson

Greg Nelson — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:37:23 +0000

I would love it is MSFT bought out YHOO and not just as a shareholder looking to recoup value. If they could merge their ad platforms and gain greater share of paid distribution, it would be a big push for the combined entity. We actively market on YahooSM and MSN AdCenter, but neither (not even new Panama) work as well as AdWords for ease of use.

As far as quality of traffic, we see solid ROI on all platforms…it comes down to metrics and your economics as much as the platform, but purely from a Ad platform stance, both companies would win if they merged and integrated the ad platforms well while boosting distribution to the advertiser at even less work to that advertiser.

MSFT should buy YHOO. The valuation is cheap (dollar wise) and MSFT is on a roll with their cash cows.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:18:38 +0000

Tim

I agree but they have never have done it. Neither has Google or Yahoo. All three have said they have no interest in buying domains.

They have all three had representatives at various traffic shows and all three have said it’s not in their corporate model and they are not going to acquire domains.

Therefore if that is out of the question, then buying Yahoo would seem to be the best move for them

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:18:25 +0000

I think msft would do better buying 40billion of great domains and develop them out…look at business.com and dictionary.com etc

By: Will Microsoft Finally Buy Yahoo.com???

Will Microsoft Finally Buy Yahoo.com??? — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:24:44 +0000

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