Answers.com Announces A Match Made In Domain Name Heaven

from the there's-your-answer dept

Mon, Jul 16th 2007 9:06pm — Joseph Weisenthal

Domain name speculation has been hot for a long time, but lately, it seems, a number of companies are trying to build businesses on the backs of their domain names alone. Today, Answers.com announced the purchase of Lexico, which is the owner of sites like Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com. The company says that the tie up will make it a leader in "online information publishing", but this is just generic corporate puffery, intended to mask the fact that the real value here is the domain names. Meanwhile, Answers.com itself, despite its relationship with Google, is not doing particularly well. It has warned of weak earnings due to "more pronounced seasonality", which again, sounds very much like meaningless corporate-speak.

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Filed Under: domain, domains
Companies: answers.com, lexico

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confused, 16 Jul 2007 @ 9:53pm

What does this...
have to do with Operating Systems?
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- Anonymous Coward, 17 Jul 2007 @ 4:06am
  
  Re: What does this...
  who said its supposed to have anything to do with OSes?
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- Anomolous Cowturd, 17 Jul 2007 @ 4:29am
  
  Re: What does this...
  Think much? Read much? Nah..
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Paul, 16 Jul 2007 @ 10:09pm

No
A match made in Domain Name Heaven would be if anwers.com bought questions.com
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- Erik, 16 Jul 2007 @ 11:35pm
  
  Re: No
  That's exactly what I thought this article was going to be about. The acquisition is more "neat" than a match made in heaven.
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Chris, 17 Jul 2007 @ 6:05am

Heaven? not really
I agree with Paul. I was thinking the same thing...I think the article writer was just trying to be clever and ended up dissapointing us. should have read something like this: "Now you can get all your answers in one place" just as clever but no assumptions are made about questions.com (but i bet almost everyone that reads this article will check out questions.com)
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JS Beckerist, 17 Jul 2007 @ 8:08am

Questions.com
Questions.com is for sale, it's a link farm right now (nothing to see...)
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- Chris, 17 Jul 2007 @ 8:27am
  
  Re: Questions.com
  haha I had to check too
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unlimitedwebhosting, 11 Apr 2011 @ 10:24am

Domain
I have also checked.. This is same...But provides great info...
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