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Relatively young Internet, like any other mature industry, has seen many multi-billion-dollar signings. Some worked, some have not made the money one way or another was. Many of the sites are "made-for-sale" started in the garage and sold for millions.
** The Internet has created more billionaires (Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Mark Cuban, David Filo, Pierre Omidyar, Jeff Bezos, Ram Shriram, Todd Wagner, Margaret Whitman, Mark Zuckerberg, Eric Schmidt ….) than any other industry in the last ten years.
Here we list 80 largest website sales in the history of the Internet:
MUST APPEAR ON THE LIST following style:
Rank – Website – Type – Acquired By – Value (in U.S. $) – Year
1 aQuantive advertising Microsoft 6.3 billion in 2007
2 Broadcast Internet Radio Yahoo! 5.7 billion euro 1999
3 GeoCities Web Hosting Yahoo! 3.6 billion in 1999
4 DoubleClick Advertising Google 3.1 billion in 2007
5 VoIP Skype eBay 2.6 billion 2005
Group 6 CNET By CBS Interactive sites 1.8 billion in 2008
7 Youtube video-sharing website Google 1.65 billion in 2006
8 Webzine ZDNet CNET 1.6 billion in 2000
9 PayPal E-Commerce Payment Systems eBay 1.5 billion in 2002
10 Bill Me Later eBay eCommerce 1.2 billion in 2008
11 Bebo Social Networ-king-site AOL 850 million in 2008
12 Microsoft Tellme voice portal 800 million in 2007
13 Club Penguin Online Games (MMOG) Disney 700 million 2007
14 mySimon comparison shopping site CNET 700 million in 2000
15 Right Media Advertising Yahoo! 680 million in 2007
16 IGN Video Game Journalism 650 million News Corp. 2005
17 24 / 7 Real Media Advertising WPP 649 million in 2007
Postini 18 e-mail and Web Security Google-625 million in 2006
19 Shopping.com Price comparison website eBay 620 million in 2005
20 MySpace Website Social Networ-king-580 million News Corp. 2005
21 Kelkoo Price Compar-ison's website Yahoo! 579 million 2004
22 Adult Friend Finder Adult Penthouse Media Group 500 million in 2007
23 Greenfield Online online survey and comparison of Microsoft 486 million in 2008
Hotjobs 24 online job search engine Yahoo! 436 million in 2002
25 eGroups E-Mail List Management website Yahoo! 432 million in 2000
Rent.com 26 Classified Advertising 415 million eBay 2005
Microsoft's Hotmail webmail 27 million-400 1997
28 Mirabilis Instant Messenger, AOL 400 million in 1998
29 Movies AOL Moviefone 400 million in 1999
30 MP3.com Vivendi Universal Music 372 million in 2001
31 Comparison Shopping Operator MeziMedia Site ValueClick 352 million in 2007
32 Zimbra Groupware Yahoo! 350 2007 m
33 Business search engine and directory RH Donnelley 345 million in 2007
34 Half.com eBay online marketplace 318 million in 2000
35 eCommerce StubHub (tickets) eBay 310 million in 2007
36 Blue Lithium Advertising Yahoo! 300 million in 2007
37 Amazon Audible.com Audio Books 300 million in 2008
38 Marktplaats.nl eBay Classified Advertising 290 million in 2004
39 Internet Radio Last.fm 280 million 2007 CBS Interactive
40 Advertising Tacoda AOL 275 million in 2007
41 Amazon Alexa Web Traffic Reporting 250 million in 1999
42 Photobucket Image Hosting 250 million News Corp. 2007
43 HowStuffWorks Science Discovery 250 million in 2007
44 internet traffic monitor Hitwise, Experian 240 million in 2007
45 AllBusiness.com Business Information NBCi 225 million in 2000
46 Friends Reunited Social Networking 208 million ITV plc 2005
47 Place merchandise Web Conferencing Microsoft 200 million in 2003
48 Dice Job Search, Inc. (Tech Profe), and General Atlantic LLC Quadrangle LLC 200 million in 2005
49 Fadango online ticket sales 200 million Comcast 2007
50 Quack.com AOL voice portal 200 million in 2000
51 WebDialogs Online Meeting Solutions IBM 161 million in 2007
52 eCommerce eBay Eachnet 150 million in 2003
53 Kimo Web portal Yahoo! 145 million in 2000
54 India World Sify 115 million in 1999 from Web sites
55 dMarc Broadcasting Advertising Google 102 million in 2006
56 UGO Online Entertainment Hearst 100 million in 2007
57 FeedBurner We Feed Management Provider Google 100 million in 2007
58 Maktoob Arabic Web portal Yahoo! 85 million 2009
59 Free Online Photo Sharing Site Webshots ExciteatHome 82.5 million in 1999
60 Farecast online search software Microsoft 75 million in 2008
StumbleUpon Recommendation Engine 61 eBay 75 million in 2007
62 Joyo.com Chinese ping-Store Website Amazon million 75 2004
63 eFinancialCareers Job Search Dice Inc. 75 million in 2006
64 Allrecipes.com recipe-sharing site's readers Digest Association Inc 66 million in 2006
65 Hemscott data, media and investor relations Web site provided by Morningstar, Inc. 51.6 million in 2008
66 FoxSports Sport Premier Media Group 50 million in 2007
67 Baazee.com online auction eBay 50 million in 2004
68 iStockphoto Stock Images Getty Images 50 million in 2006
69 Cricinfo Cricket site ESPN 50 million 2007 69 Ludicorp (Flickr) Video and Image Hosting Website Yahoo! 40 million 2005
70 Paid Content Blog Network Guardian 30 million in 2008
71 PriceRunner comparison site ValueClick 29 million in 2006
72 Weblogs, Inc. Group Of AOL 25 million blogs in 2005
73 Ars Technica Condà © Technology Blog Nast Publications 25 million in 2008
74 Techrepublic online magazine and community CNET 23 million in 2001
75 Online Social bookmarking Delicious Yahoo! 20 million 2005
76 Hot or Not Rating Site Avid Life Media 20 million in 2008
77 Financial Bankaholic blog BankRate 15 million in 2008
78 Holly Deadlline – Wood Daily Hollywood Insider Website Mail.com Media Corporation 14 2009 m
79 MyMMOShop My MMO Virtual Currency Exchange Inc. 10 million in 2009
80 The Pirate Bay Torrent Tracker Index and Global Gaming Factory X 7.8 million in 2009
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