Greek-American entrepreneur, Anthos Chrysanthou must be rejoicing; the premium domain Translate.com sold for $853,000 dollars on a Flippa auction.
The Chicago-based entrepreneur and domain investor sold the money-making business, in order to focus on a new enterprise.
According to BizQuest, Translate.com averages 1.8M monthly visitors, and 3.9M monthly page views with an average duration of 2:37 minutes, and a bounce rate of 40.9%. There are 385,000 registered users on Translate.com.
In our 2015 coverage of Translate.com, the domain’s user base was calculated differently, with 3 million members listed.
Translate.com was first registered in 1996, and some archived pages remain.
The domain dropped and was re-registered in 1999, by a company called Polyglot LLC.
An interesting twist: The Flippa auction lists Bidder #2 as a banned account; that bidder went all the way up to $852,000 dollars during the auction.
Let’s hope that the deal closes!
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Bidder account #2 was banned or was it just closed by request?
When rolling over bidder account #2 it says: “The user has closed their account on Flippa”.
Matt – It seems the Flippa auction has been removed or disabled completely.