Tag Archives: rob monster

Wed 26th May 2010
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Epik Acquires Domain Development Company DevRich - Epik adds to development capabilities. Rob Monster’s Epik has acquired domain name development company DevRich. The transaction was an all-equity transaction and the valuation was not disclosed. This is both a talent acquisition and a technology acquisition. Luke Webster, President of DevRich, will become SVP Operations of Epik. He will continue to run DevRich, which will be a division of Epik. I met Webster and his business partner at DOMAINfest this past January, ... read more ...
Thu 15th October 2009
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Epik Buys JustDropped - Epik buys drop catching search and registration tool. Rob Monster’s Epik has acquired JustDropped, an expired domain search and drop catching service. Last week at the SedoPro event in Key West Monster and JustDropped owner Dan Rubin were glued at the hip. I chatted with both of them about the future of Epik, but assumed the reason they were so tight was that Monster was using JustDropped for catching domains for his Epik network. Apparently it was a little bit ... read more ...
Wed 12th August 2009
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DevHub Creator Turns Profitable - Web site building and monetization platform goes into the black. EVO Media Group, creator of the DevHub web site development platform, has reached profitability just five months after releasing its flagship project. The company boasts an active user base of 25,000 people developing web sites on its platform. Total visits to the network of sites built on DevHub is nearing 1 million per month with over 2 million page views, according to data from Quantcast. Operating ... read more ...
Sun 21st June 2009
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Epik Enhances Geo Domain Web Sites - Epik releases new directory pages on city domain names. When I met with Epik founder Rob Monster last week, he said the pace of development on Epik would be fast and furious. He wasn’t kidding. Within just a couple days, Epik has already launched an enhancement to location domain names on its network: directory pages. Location domains originally only had the same type of content as other pages: a home page, related articles, pictures, and video. But now each ... read more ...
Sat 28th March 2009
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Monster Venture Partners Closing Doors - Venture Capital firm was big backer of generic domain-based companies. Rob Monster’s Monster Venture Partners is closing its doors, reports TechFlash. Monster Venture Partners backed a number of companies that were formed with high value generic domain names, such as Alerts.com and Healthcare.com. Other companies Monster Venture Capital invested in were SharedReviews, EvoMedia Group (formerly EvoLanding), and Complaints.com. Because Monster founded the venture ... read more ...
Thu 5th February 2009
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Toys.com, Birthdays.com, Hobbies.com Sold during Auction - Millions of dollars in domains sold at auction. The biggest domain name auction of the year took place yesterday, but you probably haven’t heard about it. And Oversee.net, parent company of Moniker, was a bidder, not a seller. Yesterday at 10 am substantial assets from The Parent Company were scheduled to be auctioned off at the law offices of Pachulski Stang Ziehl Jones LLP. The Parent Company owns a number of online retailers including eToys. Among the domain ... read more ...
Tue 30th September 2008
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Live Current Partners with Domain Strategies to Develop Karate.com - Deal will help monetize one of Live Current’s many valuable domain names. Hot of the heels of its latest cricket media announcement, Live Current Media (OTC: livc.ob) has announced a new deal with Rob Monster’s Domain Strategies for the domain name Karate.com. Live Current and Domain Strategies will develop a new company to own and develop the domain name. Because Live Current is publicly traded, we’ll likely get a good look at how this deal plays out through ... read more ...
Tue 29th January 2008
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Auto-Generated Web Sites, Part 2 - New services show the trend continues, but are automated site generators the future of domain parking? In September 2007 I wrote about DomainEmbarking.com, a service that generates a parking page that looks more like a real web site than a parked page. For a brief history of automated site generation, here’s a snippet from that article: A few years ago savvy entrepreneurs figured out they could mass-develop web sites based on niche keywords and penetrate search ... read more ...
Wed 23rd January 2008
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Salient, Domain Strategies Team Up on Wifi.com - Companies ink deal to enhance wifi.com web site. Salient Properties, which bought Wifi.com for $225,000 in 2006, has found a partner to help further develop the site. In an e-mail sent this evening, Salient Properties owner Stuart Wood (see Domain Name Wire profile) wrote: Although I am not at liberty to go into extensive details, yet, I can tell you Salient Properties, LLC. (our parent company) has inked an agreement with Domain Strategies, Inc. to take the business ... read more ...