Blog.com Domain Name for Sale via Sedo

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Apr 30, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) –
The largest Internet domain name marketplace and monetization provider, Sedo,
today announced that the premium domain Blog.com
is on sale exclusively through its brokerage house. As one of the web’s
most visited sites, with an Alexa
Traffic Rank just above 700, the sale of Blog.com presents a unique
opportunity for both established companies and Internet entrepreneurs
aiming to build or expand their online presence.

Blog.com currently hosts a fully-featured online publishing platform
that launched in January 2010 with great success. Immediately, the site
attracted upwards of 3 million unique monthly visitors and, since then,
has grown exponentially. In March 2012, Blog.com welcomed more than 8.5
million visitors that accounted for more than 19.3 million page views.

The entire site and its current infrastructure, including its user
database, blog database, current software and media data, will be sold
along with the domain name.

“Blog.com is a powerful keyword domain that receives a tremendous amount
of organic traffic. I can confidently say that the outstanding traffic
growth we experienced is purely from the domain,” said Sergio Carvalho,
Blog.com’s CTO. “When the site was in its infancy, we did a small amount
of advertising and SEO, and before long were able to completely cut
those strategies out of our marketing budget. The domain name carried
itself.”

After managing and building Blog.com over the past two years,
Portugalmail has listed the site for sale with Sedo to focus on its core
email service business. With recent expansion into emerging markets and
a particular success in Brazil, the company will refocus its resources
to support its rapid growth.

“We look for a number of attributes to determine just how valuable a
domain could be, including keywords, character length, existing traffic
and comparable sales, and Blog.com checks most of these boxes. To see
how popular the word ‘blog’ is, take a look at the Google AdWords tool —
there are more than 151 million searches for the word every month,” said
Kathy Nielsen, director of sales at Sedo. “Premium names like this
aren’t for sale too often, so this really is a unique opportunity for a
fortunate buyer.”

Parties interested in buying the Blog.com domain should contact Sedo at consult@sedo.com.

About Sedo

Sedo, an acronym for “Search Engine for Domain Offers,” is the leading
domain marketplace and monetization provider. Headquartered in Cologne,
Germany and with offices in London, England and Cambridge, Mass., Sedo
has assembled the world’s largest database of domain names for sale,
with more than 15 million listings. The success of Sedo’s model has
attracted a global base of more than 1 million members.

SOURCE: Sedo

        
        fama PR for Sedo 
        Mike Reilly, 617-986-5008 
        sedo@famapr.com
        

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