SEO.com - It’s Time to Join
Posted by reviews on Mar 22, 2008
You may be familiar with the owners of SEO.com reportedly paying $5 Million for the domain. Yes, that’s a lot of money. As it turns out, Mike Mann, the owner of SEO.com did not pay quite that much. However, he is still a really wealthy individual from his days in the domain industry.
News report from the time of the announcement:
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.
Just the same, as far as SEO is concerned, it has the perfect domain name, is owned by one of the wealthiest people in the domain and SEO industries, and has a quickly growing forum.
So, if you are thinking about joining, this is the time to do it while it’s still young!
Please click the logo to join
Actually the domain wasn’t sold for 5M, it was much less than that. The sale price was a marketing gimmick, aka linkbait.
Doh!
we’ve seen this happen too many times. but this advertising stunt is still effective.
Marketing stunts like this will always work. People love big sensational stories. I don’t see that trait going away anytime soon.
Forums are a bit “newbish” for such a powerful domain. Hopefully they will fill out in time.
Wow!! this is great marketing. Wish I got such Ideas.
I just registered at their forum. I can’t believe they have so few post. It’s just a matter of time before they fill up.
until they make that forum DO follow, i can’t see it ever reaching the same level of usage as, for example, Digital Point.
I don’t know how much they paid for the domain, but even if it’s only 10% of that I can’t see them getting it back.
This forum looks great. I am wondering will it grow as huge as digitalpoint’s forum.
Thanks for the recommend!