So Business.com recently sold for $350 million to R.H. Donnelley, the company that makes the DEX Yellow Pages. The purchase of the domain in 1999 for $7.5M turned heads. Today Business.com produced $15 million in revenue per year. Let’s explore why this is a ripoff.
1. The domain name Business.com is great, but without great […]

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ShoeMoney shows people how to make money online. He’s not really an SEO and seems to write the blog because he likes helping people as well as being treated like an SEO rockstar. His site gets about 750,000 visitors/month and earns about $12,000/month, yet this is just a small portion of his total earnings. I […]

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The answer, no. I remember seeing this site for sale a couple years ago for well over $1,000,000. I took a quick look at the listing ad and MyPimpSpace.com claimed about $90,000 in profit every month. What’s going on?
1. YPN had just came out and was easy to manipulate. MyPimpSpace was able to display insurance […]

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Citing an article from the summer of 2006, we can see a couple sites,
SeatGuru.com - Helps find the perfect seat on airlines. Started in 2001 by Matthew Daimler, it was recently sold. It claimed 700,000 visitors/month, $10,000-20,000/month in Adsense earnings and they also make more from other ad deals. They were sold, but the selling […]

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Ok, so the name Revenute.com is not great, but it could be catchy. Why did I pick it?
1. I didn’t want to oblige “Domainers” and pay for a parked domain.
2. It could be brandable. I also registered SiteEarnings.com but because Revenute sounds a bit funky, it might be more memorable.
3. I don’t really plan on […]

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