Between 1995 and 1998 had a number of acquisitions of Web sites and units. Some of the details are easy to find (if you know exactly where) and some of the details are much more difficult to obtain.

* In the middle of 1997 were sent to Lycos, Tripod 58 million U.S. dollars in the company's shares.
* In October 1997, Draper Fisher Four11 Yahoo has sold the store a lot of emphasis on the 92 million U.S. dollars.
* In January 1998, Draper Fisher Hotmail was sold to Microsoft in stock swap, some experts estimate up to 400 million U.S. dollars. Hotmail has 8.5 million registered users at the time. One million people a day, on average, where the visiting Hotmail.
* Mecklermedia road was also beginning to acquire a large number of site on the Internet and / or computer. He bought the search engine sites, such as View, webophedia PC, and much more in 1998 and boasted about 10 million pages delivered to a month as part of their internet. com flagship websites for sale.
* This article was originally written, it was not for many other large acquisitions in the web-site on the market.

Back then to predict the future is that the smaller players will acquire smaller place in a much larger network of websites for sale of similar content or themes.

It seems we were a little before our time, and it was only partly right.
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Current

We all remember that around 2000, when the dot com bubble burst and all the great comments on Web properties and the stuff seemed to be dreams.

Finally, things again and now it seems that everyone knows that mySpace.com by News Corp. about $ 560 million and purchased approximately 1.6 billion youTube.com Google U. S. dollar.

Of course, these are rare treats, and things are heated, even for smaller web properties. Many have recognized that there is money to make out a sale or purchase of, and participation in related websites for sale.

1. Buyer

In 1998, the list of companies that are actively, and little noise, the acquisition of other websites for sale or Web-based company comprised of two companies, the budget and other names that you have never heard of. Lycos, Mecklermedia, Zulutek Microsoft, Yahoo and AOL are potential buyers of Web sites.

Currently, the market has grown significantly. Not only have more is "high" and the Web for buying properties, but an entirely new group of medium and smaller customers, as well. "Average" buyers are usually businesses, such as atomic-line and Internet Brands, buy, that your "space" in order to adjust the size of the audience. This is your basic consolidation. The smaller suppliers are persons or companies to buy the sites with the potential to improve, and then turn them (Flippin websites for sale) to buy the land or the potential to increase revenue to improve and add them to its portfolio of Web properties (buy and hold).

2. Seller

There are many service providers' websites. The spectrum ranges from people to a web site as a hobby business, work for the exit by selling on its website and its associated companies.
3. Website Brokers

When we originally wrote this article was only a handful of brokers and the pages in your site, which has helped buyers and sellers of existing websites. In general, they are representing the sellers, and about 1,999, many of them dealing primarily the adult sites, because until then, (by category) were adult sites generate significant revenue. Currently, there are more companies and sites in this and many other Web brokers are the same.