SEO.com Domain Purchased for $5 Million
UPDATE: Apparently this is a rabid rumor! Mike has responded in a comment below confirming himself that this price is false. He says that no announcement has been made which includes the price of this sale. Inquiring minds want to know Mike!
Mike Mann is a prominent internet entrepreneur who sold BuyDomains company a few years ago for more than $65 million. His latest tech venture is just that, a venture capital firm based in Washington D.C. which goes by the name of WashingtonVC.
Yesterday Mann announced the purchase of SEO.com by WashingtonVC for $5 million as well as the formation of an SEO firm led by Dave Bascom. The company is formerly known as Web Targeted, search engine optimization company located in Utah. Jay mentions this new domain will give them a huge advantage over the fierce competition of Search Engine Optimizers.
It should be interesting to track the progress of their SEO firm gaining ranking for SEO terms with this new domain.
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June 16th, 2007 at 11:13 pm
Wow, I’ve got a SEO.com address as in tucsonseosolutions.com I wonder how much its worth.
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June 20th, 2007 at 8:17 am
Yea, makes me want to go back in time and invest in domain names.
June 20th, 2007 at 8:31 am
There is still a bright and big future for dot com domain investments. If you have the capital I suggest getting into it ASAP!
June 20th, 2007 at 10:25 am
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June 20th, 2007 at 4:08 pm
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June 20th, 2007 at 4:36 pm
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June 21st, 2007 at 7:28 am
Currently search engines considers this seo.com as new domain.. well how this firm will get advantage of this domain… spent lot of money for 1 single domain.. great
June 21st, 2007 at 3:47 pm
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June 21st, 2007 at 10:24 pm
that’s crazy, just think how much marketing and promotion they could have bought for that amount. Now they’re 5 mil in the hole even before they started.
June 22nd, 2007 at 9:52 pm
Dude, you bloggers do no fact checking whatsoever and repeat BS that someone with a specific agenda originally posted, there has been no announcement from our camp on any of the items speculated about seo.com, webtargeted, or buydomains, or any asset of ours for that matter unless it was done by our PR company, and therefore you might assume nothing else is true, other than that SEO.com is in fact a WVC asset now.
Why not have your blogger community pretend that facts matter before repeating the wrong ones?
Go get the original source for leading you all on and now leaving yet another permanent internet trail full of junk text that effects the market for other small company investors.
June 27th, 2007 at 12:33 pm
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July 5th, 2007 at 9:48 pm
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July 17th, 2007 at 6:11 pm
A year or two ago the people who owned SEO.com were going around offering the site for sale for one million dollars.
July 19th, 2007 at 5:18 am
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September 6th, 2007 at 6:06 pm
The domain SEO.com was owned by a company in Florida that manufactured electro-optic devices (Schwartz Electro-Optical) such as are used in over-the-road automatic toll machines. That company went bankrupt and the domain was held by the bankruptcy attorney for some time. His asking price was $75K in early 2006. I’m kicking myself for not buying it, but I thought the price was a little steep.
December 21st, 2007 at 5:59 pm
for all of the people who are saying that they are starting to criticise the company for the purchase should take a look at erealestate .com for some answers. It is a one time expense. Now they can provide a service that is extremley valuable for almost every industry that uses the web and have instant credibility.
January 21st, 2008 at 5:07 pm
DO you know what this guys do with this great domain ? Any SEO project like SEOChat ?
March 20th, 2008 at 7:40 pm
WOW, and wow again. 5 Millions $ for a domain, I wonder if I have domain worth just 1 Millions $, and I’ll do nothing for the rest of my life.
March 20th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
That’s overpaying for sure. It is gonna take a long time to recoup that investment.
March 22nd, 2008 at 4:37 pm
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April 6th, 2008 at 3:45 am
nah he didn’t sell it at 5 mill, he put it at bin (buy it now) at 500,000 not 5 mill