BankRate Throwing Cash Around
BankRate Inc made a few surprising purchases lately, paying millions of dollars for small one man sites. First was CreditCardGuide.com, a site that provides credit-card comparisons. According to compete.com it receives close to 200K monthly visitors from US. Still hard to imagine the site revenues being able to justify the $32 million pricetag the company […]
Google.com Got 67.90% of US Searches
According to the recently published stats by hitwise (first posted here), Google accounted for 67.90 percent of all U.S. searches in the four weeks ending April 26, 2008. Yahoo! Search, MSN Search and Ask.com each received 20.28, 6.26 and 4.17 percent respectively. The remaining 45 search engines in the Hitwise Search Engine Analysis Tool accounted […]
$10 Million For 1-800-COMPANY
From prweb, still unconfirmed: Corporation and LLC formation company acquires toll free number 1-800-COMPANY for $10 million. (PRWEB) May 9, 2008 — The toll free number, 1-800-COMPANY, was acquired today by a document filing company that forms corporations, LLCs and trusts for $10 million. The associated website that promotes the company’s services, www.1800company.com, was recently […]
USA Behind China?
Not surprising with their recent rapid economical growth, China now has more internet users than US. And they also have over 10 million .cn domain names registered. But what? At $0.13 per domain (yes, you read it right – you can register a .cn domain for just 13 cents, for example on todaynic) Chinese domains […]
Dot cn Domain Registrations Hit 10 Million
dnexpert reports: CNNic, the Chinese .cn domain name registry have announced they have passed the 10 million domain registrations mark in January 2008. While other countries take pride in reaching 7 figures, China is strongly striding towards being the leading nation in terms of ccTld registrations. Only Germany with their .de ccTld have reached 10 […]