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Medicare.com Another Category Killer Domain Is Turned Into A Multi-Million Dollar Business

September 21, 2012 by Michael Berkens

The Nashville Business Journal, had a feature story on how another catgeorgy killer domain has become a mulitmillion dollar business.

In this case the domain is Medicare.com and the owner, Bill Kimberlin “has led his company to nearly 900 percent growth over the past three years. “We’re just getting started,” he is quoted as saying.

“”The online Medicare information group had 2011 revenue of $2.3 million, representing explosive 892 percent three-year growth that landed Medicare.com as the 416th fastest-growing company in the country, according to Inc. ”

“For Kimberlin, who has owned the Medicare.com domain name since 2000, the success has largely been about figuring out just what to do with his online gem.”

The rest of the story is by subscription only but its another case of a category defining name directly leading to a business making seven figures a year in revenue.

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Filed Under: Domains

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.

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Comments

  1. DR.DOMAIN says

    September 22, 2012 at 1:25 pm

    How much did he pay for this gem back in 2000?

  2. DropHawk says

    May 1, 2014 at 7:43 pm

    I noticed eHealth Inc. reported today they paid $4.5 million in cash for Medicare.com (they didn’t mention the current revenue)

    http://finance.yahoo.com/news/ehealth-inc-announces-first-quarter-201500610.html


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