Bored.com sold for $4.5M

[Stian]

:hail:

 

[Devil Dog]

Its the dream :blush:

congrats.

Seriously. Glad to see it happen to someone from here. Gives me hope that one day it'll happen to me.

 

[tonyfloyd]

NICE!!!!....Did Eric build that site up by himself??..Did he have partners involved?...Great looking site......

 

[dnbox]

:cheers: congrats! nice sale.

 

[ARMG]

Great sale 4.5M!

 

[liberator]

Congrats Eric!!

 

[Seraphim]

Congrats! That's awesome.

 

[GAMEFINEST]

Congrats, great sale, Beachie is already sitting on gold.

 

[seanboy]

Great sale, excellent name

 

[hugegrowth]

Congrats - awesome sale!

 

[DomainsInc]

Not sure how much the actual domain played a role but still an awesome sale.

 

[Ehsan]

I am bored seeing all the congrats comments lol

 

[kwok]

I am bored seeing all the congrats comments lol

:lol:

 

[Dale Hubbard]

Good name, good development, very good dollars.

 

[LucidPhoenix]

Where does all this content for the sites come from?

Did they buy that as well?

 

[DavidJames]

I've been a big fan of this site for close to 10 years now. Congrats to them. I'm looking forward to what bored.com has in store for us in the future...

 

[e-rasta]

congrats to the buyer. i like the new design.

 

[coast]

Congrats to the buyer and seller. I have spent many hours on bored.com and can only say good things about it.

 

[jdk]

Very cool. I knew he was holding off on the $2mil offers he was receiving before.

Now maybe I can sell Bored.sc

 

[impulse]

Yes, I ran Bored.com by myself, no partners. I started it in 1997. I have paid some programmers to create some of the pages, but I added all the content myself and thought of all the ideas for content myself. The main part of the site does not use any content management software, it is just plain html. But, there are many subpages that use programming (mostly php/mysql).

Although selling it for $4 million sounds like a lot, I also was making a lot of income running from it. I sold it because I still have over 100 other sites (such as http://www.Adoptme.com and http://www.Dumb.com ) plus over 9000 parked domains (most of which I bought in the 1990's). So, I just wanted to cash out a little and put some money in the bank.

Another reason I sold Bored.com is that it is a very Web 1.0 type site. Hopfeully the new owner can make a lot more money from it by giving it a Web 2.0 upgrade, and doing all the things I never did for it, like selling ads directly, using higher paying ad formats (I still used ad formats from the 1990's), doing link exchanges, adding content more frequently (I only added a new sites once or twice a month), doing content partnerships with other sites, etc.

- Eric