Flicker.com Receives $600k Offer
Monday, June 11th, 2007
Not-so-typo domain of popular Flickr.com service accepting offers.
I’ve never understood why these Web 2.0 companies have such horrible domain names. It’s hard enough getting people to remember your web address. So why drop vowels out of your domain? In January I wrote:
As a domainer, I look at a lot of these web 2.0 companies and laugh at their domain names. They are perhaps the worst domain names a company could ever choose. Flickr.com? (A Yahoo! company (NASDAQ: YHOO). Talkr.com? Frappr.com? The only thing these domains are good for are sending traffic to Flicker.com, Talker.com, and Frapper.com.
Well, the owners of Flicker.com have put it up for sale and have turned down 14 offers in the past two months. The latest offer was for $600,000. According to a notice on the Flicker.com web page, the site attracts over 150,000 type-ins per month. I believe it — it has an Overture+Ext score of 4,301. Although most of these visitors are looking for the popular photo sharing site owned by Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO), the Flicker.com notice doesn’t mention the site and goes out of its way to point out that Flicker is a generic term.
The final sale price will depend on if someone is willing to take on any legal risk associated with this domain name. Sure, the domain predates the Flickr service and Flickr is a horrible name, but that doesn’t mean someone can’t sue if the domain is used for a similar purpose.
I totally agree with your comment about “these Web 2.0 companies have such horrible domain names”. If you read TechCrunch, there are countless Web2.0 startups with terrible domain names popping up everyday!
“As a domainer, I look at a lot of these web 2.0 companies and laugh at their domain names.”
Andrew,
Did you see this ?
http://snipr.com/CrazyNames
Patrick
Thanks Patrick. The folksonomy.org article hits the nail on the head.
Stumbleupon, tripover,fallaround……………rollyo, bebo, crusty.
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For the fun of it, I purchased the name “staffr.com” and without marketing, I fear type-in traffic will continue to virtually flatline.
Oh! Well, domaining and exploring the limitless possibilities is still a lot of fun ; )
This is cyber sqatting and domainers should not register typo names.
[...] Name Wire reported that a lawsuit settlement gave Yahoo the domain. Back in 2007, Yahoo supposedly offered the owners of Flicker.com $600,000 for the domain, which they supposedly turned [...]
i think they have silly names because of the possibility of trademark infringement.
anytime a site gets big, you can be sure there are other site owners that get jealous. and they contact their lawyers, wanting to sue.
so if you pick an absurd name that no other business would want, you make the possibilty of TM infringement more remote.
that’s my guess. it’s only a guess.
another theory is web developers have no idea how to name a business and just follow the trend of having an absurd name like so many other web companies do. this is perhaps a stronger theory. web fanatics are notorious trend followers. to call them “sheep” is putting it lightly.
[...] Name Wire reported that a lawsuit settlement gave Yahoo the domain. Back in 2007, Yahoo supposedly offered the owners of Flicker.com $600,000 for the domain, which they supposedly turned [...]
[...] Name Wire reported that a lawsuit settlement gave Yahoo the domain. In 2007, Yahoo supposedly offered the owners of Flicker.com $600,000 for the domain, which they supposedly turned [...]
Based on my experience, Flickr actually is not a great way to share photos with family and friends – it’s much worse than Yahoo Photos used to be. The main problem is that it’s not easy to share a group of photos without creating a permanent, separate “set.” For those who like to send around groups of photos, the number of “sets” you need to create quickly gets too large, and they become unmanageable.
Flickr should allow you to use Organizr to create a group of photos and send them using Yahoo Mail, without having to create a permanent set. This would make the service a lot more useful for sharing purposes.
Having said this, you can work around this problem by installing the Flickr application from within Yahoo Mail. That application isn’t as easy to use as Organizr, but it does allow you to send groups of photos without creating a permanent set.
[...] Name Wire reported that a lawsuit settlement gave Yahoo the domain. Back in 2007, Yahoo supposedly offered the owners of Flicker.com $600,000 for the domain, which they supposedly turned [...]
[...] Name Wire reported that a lawsuit settlement gave Yahoo the domain. Back in 2007, Yahoo supposedly offered the owners of Flicker.com $600,000 for the domain, which they supposedly turned [...]
[...] was acquired by Hong Kong business Ashanti for $55,000 in 2006. Back in 2007, Yahoo reportedly offered the owners $600,000, but was turned [...]
[...] Name Wire reported that a lawsuit settlement gave Yahoo the domain. Back in 2007, Yahoo supposedly offered the owners of Flicker.com $600,000 for the domain, which they supposedly turned [...]
[...] Name Wire reported that a lawsuit settlement gave Yahoo the domain. Back in 2007, Yahoo supposedly offered the owners of Flicker.com $600,000 for the domain, which they supposedly turned [...]
[...] Yahooによる取得については、まずWHOISのデータに変更があったことが報告され、そしてTechCrunchでは本件をYahooに確認した。Yahooのスポークスマンは「FLICKER.COMのドメインはYahooにトランスファーされました」と述べたが、利用予定などの詳細については話してくれなかった。これに先立ってDomain Name Wireにも、法的手段によってYahooがドメイン名を取得した旨が報じられていた。2007年にはYahooがFlicker.comのオーナーに対して60万ドルを提示して拒否されたという話が流れていた。 [...]
[...] Wire reported that a lawsuit settlement gave Yahoo the domain. Back in 2007, Yahoo supposedly offered the owners of Flicker.com $600,000 for the domain, which they supposedly turned [...]
[...] 2007 el propietario de Flicker.com lo puso en venta y rechazó hasta 14 ofertas, una de ellas de 600.000$. Finalmente en 2010 Yahoo, que había comprado [...]