According to an article in business7.co.uk, Cupid.com a company located in Scotland just acquired the domain name Cupidon.com for £175,000 which coverts into $280,000 Dollars.
Cupidon is the French equivalent word for cupid.
In Feburary of this year Cupid acquired the operating site IndianDating.com for $200,000.
IndianDating.com, had around 600,000 members at the time of acquisition.
According to one of the articles, the parent company Cupid is generating £4 Million a month or $6.5 million in revenue.
PlentyofFish bought Vow.com from ireit not too long ago. Guess it is the next step for them.
Trip, do you mean POF.COM?
EasyDate the buyer of Cupidon.com, also bought flirt.com for $1.5M
Wow, big numbers
They also run flirt.com and a few others – cupidplc.com/about-us/company-profile
Could be a good affiliate for Date.me 😉
affiliates.cupidplc.com
EasyDate is no longer the name of the company.
They changed the domain after a TM challenge by easyjet
The company is now Cupid.
http://www.thedomains.com/2010/09/24/uk-company-easygroup-seems-to-think-it-own-the-word-easy-as-its-claims-easydate-is-infringing-on-their-mark/