30 Websites That Sold For A Lot Of Money
This is another top list that will surely explode your brains out. A website that could be sold for a lot of money. Lots and lots of money. Check out this list.
30 Websites That Sold For A Lot Of Money
| Rank | Website | Acquired By | Price | Acquisition Date |
| 1 | Aquantive | Microsoft | $6,333,000,000 | 13-Aug-2007 |
| 2 | Broadcast | Yahoo! | $5,700,000,000 | 1-Apr-1999 |
| 3 | Geocities | Yahoo! | $3,600,000,000 | 28-May-1999 |
| 4 | Youtube | $1,650,000,000 | 9-Oct-2006 | |
| 5 | Marketing Yahoo! | Yahoo! | $1,630,000,000 | 14-Jun-2003 |
| 6 | Bebo | AOL | $850,000,000 | 13-Mar-2008 |
| 7 | Tell Me | Microsoft | $800,000,000 | 14-Mar-2007 |
| 8 | Club Penguin | Disney | $700,000,000 | 1-Aug-2007 |
| 9 | Right Media | Yahoo! | $680,000,000 | 29-Apr-2007 |
| 10 | Real Media 24/7 | WPP | $649,000,000 | 17-May-2007 |
| 11 | Postini | $625,000,000 | 16-Nov-2006 | |
| 12 | MySpace | News Corp | $580,000,000 | 18-Jul-2005 |
| 13 | Adult Friend Finder | Penthouse Media Group | $500,000,000 | 11-Dec-2007 |
| 14 | Mezi Media | ValueClick | $352,000,000 | 16-Jul-2007 |
| 15 | Zimbra | Yahoo! | $350,000,000 | 17-Sep-2007 |
| 16 | Business | R.H. Donnelley | $345,000,000 | 26-Jul-2007 |
| 17 | Blue Lithium | Yahoo! | $300,000,000 | 4-Sep-2007 |
| 18 | Audible | Amazon | $300,000,000 | 31-Jan-2008 |
| 19 | Last FM | CBS | $280,000,000 | 30-May-2007 |
| 20 | Tacoda | AOL | $275,000,000 | 24-Jul-2007 |
| 21 | How Stuff Works | Discovery | $250,000,000 | 15-Oct-2007 |
| 22 | Photo Bucket | Fox Interactive | $250,000,000 | 30-May-2007 |
| 23 | Hitwise | Experian | $240,000,000 | 19-Apr-2007 |
| 24 | Sidestep | Kayak | $200,000,000 | 20-Dec-2007 |
| 25 | Fandango | Comcast | $200,000,000 | 11-Apr-2007 |
| 26 | Web Dialogs | IBM | $161,000,000 | 22-Aug-2007 |
| 27 | Havok | Intel | $110,000,000 | 14-Sep-2007 |
| 28 | Ugo | Hearst | $100,000,000 | 24-Jul-2007 |
| 29 | Feedburner | $100,000,000 | 23-May-2007 | |
| 30 | iStock Photo | Getty Images, Inc. | $50,000,000 | 9-Feb-2006 |
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Thanks for this wonderful list. I love it so much! inspires me alot.
All I can say is WOW! A $10 to $20 domain name can one day translate into this huge fortune!
Double wow! And whoa, even my company wherein I am affiliated have bought one! ^_^
I hope Google still buys Friendster. Look at Friendster now, almost rotten.
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I agree Ada, Friendster must be sold to a bigger company. I only keep my Friendster account because of my friends.
Friendster is dying, Thanks to facebook. Google buying friendster should be fun.
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Great post. Very inspirational and always good to read success stories of websites that have made it big. Gives you the inspiration that anything is possible with hard work.