Adultfriendfinder.com Sold

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Penthouse Media Group, bought a Palo Alto company, Various, which owns and operates more than 25, mostly social networking sites, including adultfriendfinder.com (adult social networking site), amigos.com, (Latin Dating Site) indianfriendfinder.com, guanXi.com (social networking site in china), bigchurch.com (a christian focused social networking site), and Dine.com (restaurant review site), for a total of 500 million dollars in cash and securities.

 

The sites of Various, have a combined membership of 250 million people and 1.2 million paid members. The combined revenue for 2007 is expected to be $340 million.

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

Comments

  1. 2w says

    hi greeting THANKing

    .1.
    ““`guanXi”””” , Chinese word ,
    meaning
    relation or
    relationship

    .2.
    did Penthouse buy out all of ‘the Various ?

    cheers ThANKye 2w

  3. 2w says

    >>for a total of 500 million dollars in cash and securities.
    [[….]]
    >> The combined revenue for 2007 is expected to be $340 million.

    i.e.
    p.e. =
    USD 500 million / USD 340 million =
    500 / 340 =
    5 / 3.4 =
    ‘the sales price is even far from 2 times of ‘the yearly revenue
    !!!!!!!!!?????????
    am i wrong ??

    why so low p.e. ??
    what’s wrong with ‘the Various ??

    cheers ThANKye 2w

  4. admin says

    A lot of these sites probably payout a large portion of their revenue in commission checks to get the members.

  5. 2w says

    hi greeting ThANKing 4[for] prompt response

    d’u get any wind of rumours of any hidden pay-out
    from ‘the penthouse to ‘the various

    or………
    >>>> The combined revenue for 2007
    >>>> is expected to be $340 million.
    ‘s there any ““`water”””” here-in ??

    cheers ThANKye 2w

  6. admin says

    2w

    I did not refer to any “hidden payment” I was just making reference that many dating sites have very large affiliate programs which payout substantial amounts to acquire members. So although they generate $500 million in revenue we don’t know how much of that is spent in payments to affiliates or in PPC advertising. Since they are a private company we can’t see the numbers so we are just guessing in the dark

  7. 2w says

    hi greeting ThANKing

    4[for] referrence ,

    2x november year 2007 ,
    alibaba.com did its i.p.o. @ hk ,
    ‘
    the i.p.o.’s p/e : ::::: around 100 times ,
    then , in a few days , rising up2[up-to] 3xx times ,
    although falling flat nowadays ,
    but ,
    ‘the p.e. ‘s still currently being over 100 times ,

    needless2say the p.e. of the stocks of google e.t.c.

    i’m not2suggest2add ‘the alibaba in2 your index ,
    its not dn-related , although ,
    its name ‘s relativly much easier2remember

    cheers ThANKye 2w