Exclusive: The Future of Call.com
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
$1.1 million purchase may be just the beginning.
Boris Kreiman (and his company PhoneToPhone) has been confirmed as the buyer of Call.com. The better news is that he’s an end user, and he’s not done buying domain names.
I briefly connected with Kreiman on the phone this morning to learn about his plans for the site.
Kreiman runs a network of sites that connects consumers to professionals via the phone. An example is NewLawyer.com, where consumers can find a lawyer through the system and call them through the web site. He runs a similar service at NewDoctor.com. The businesses are doing quite well, so he doled out $1.1 million for Call.com. Instead of focusing on a niche like NewLawyer.com and NewDoctor.com, Kreiman says Call.com will be a general site for connecting with professionals for advice.
Kreiman clearly understands the power of a prime domain name, and he’s not done yet. He says we should hear about some other six (and potentially seven) figure domain name purchases he’s making in the next week or two.
Further Reading:
- Call.com Buyer Snaps Up Christian.com for $600,000
- The future of domain parking plus Call.com $250,000
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Sounds similar to http://AskEarth.com
Ask is an interesting verb. It could become
trendy instead of the WWW at the 3rd level.
http://Ask.DomainNameWire.com [ring ring]
$5 a minute ?
Sounds Exiting call.com. I can’t wait to be the first client. I would love to drop my phone company.
There’s a lot of momentum in the market. Highest-Quality domain names are finally coming into their own. We had a taste of this in 1999 (remember Great Domains then) but it’s been a long road since the crash. It takes time for end users to catch up. They first need to roll up their sleeves and get busy online with their own two hands- and I think that is happening. Probably another 5 years until the second tiers of two word domains take off and keep flying off the shelves. As RS says, patience.
This dude is on a buying roll too. He’s a master chess player too. . . anyone know what will his next move will be ?
Nice to hear there is a plan for Call.com, and I never would have thought of that idea for the domain. Look forward to seeing what other domains he buys.
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Looks like he has carved-out a real lucrative niche.
Great idea, fantastic domain.
Want to wish him a lot of success, Kreiman seems to know exactly what he sets out to accomplish which parallels his moves in the chess world. He must’ve been inundated with emails today and I appreciate the way goes about his business. Hope to hear more about his plans for other domains soon.
According to “hookups” on DomainState, he also bought laws.com recently.
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This Boris Kreiman is sleazy! He likes to buy expired domains and sell them back to the original owner for thousands more.
Well, my guess is that he’s dabbled in different avenues of the net and has found something that’s worthwhile to pursue. It looks like in the past, he’s registered and redirected a number of expired names according to some who are not thrilled by this practice.
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