Fasthosts.co.uk published a report on the most valuable domains. They really should have worded it as most valuable websites, because that's what they are talking about and it's development and traffic that determined the placements. It seems odd to me that Amazon.com did not make the top 10. Of course this is just one company's valuation process. Yahoo with a market cap of $47 billion made the … [Read more...]
James Altucher at Flippa conference and some of his older domain name thoughts
Flippa ran a one day virtual show back at the beginning of July. The show was named "Own Your Future" James Altucher was one of the featured speakers. Flippa has now uploaded his talk to YouTube. Altucher is a guy that provides a lot of interesting thoughts and ideas, can also be very controversial. James has strong opinions on not buying a home or sending children to college. His podcast … [Read more...]
How To Value Organic Traffic
Dan Fries wrote an interesting article on how to value organic traffic. Dan wrote the article with a slant on valuation as it pertains to a website acquisition. I think the article can benefit those that own traffic domains in helping to support their asking price. The article should benefit those that build websites too. From the article: Valuing organic traffic can be tricky, whether … [Read more...]
“there’s still a significant opportunity for providers of websites”
Greg Sterling wrote a piece on SearchEngineLand.com that dealt with small businesses, VC and websites. Greg starts off his article discussing that over the last few years SEO's have taken the approach that Google My Business, Facebook and Yelp have made the small business website unnecessary. GMB now is so widely used and so complete, that consumers never need to visit the underlying small … [Read more...]
Number of live websites in 2019 bouncing back up after 2018 dip
Number of live websites in 2019 Martin Armstrong, published an article on the number of websites currently on the Internet. I was surprised at the drop off in 2018 but 2019 looks to be moving back to the upside. The record number of live websites was 2017 at 1.76 billion. Moz Top 500 Websites Moz's list of the most popular 500 websites on the internet. These are the top 500 most … [Read more...]
Domain Magnate talks buying and selling websites
Flippa posted an interview with Michael Bereslavsky, the founder of Domain Magnate. I have always seen Michael on Namepros but I was not aware of all the websites he sells. Michael is a broker partner of Flippa. According to the post, Michael has used Flippa for several years and has had 49 transactions on platform totaling $446k. In the video interview below, Michael talks about his … [Read more...]
WalMart acquires Art.com
WalMart picks up another business running on a premium one word, three letter domain name. CNBC reported that WalMart will acquire the website Art.com. In 2016 they acquired Jet.com for nearly $3Billion. From the article: Art.com is one of the largest online sellers of art and wall decor globally, Walmart said. A person familiar with the deal said the size of this acquisition is similar to … [Read more...]
