Price: $35,000 confirmed. Not bad!
https://thenextweb.com/apps/2017/06/01/its-the-end-of-an-era...
https://thenextweb.com/apps/2017/06/01/its-the-end-of-an-era...
Whatever you may think about delicious past/present, the brand name alone should be worth more than that. Than you add in the domain, the SEO juice that must still remain w/ a ton of delicious URLs, the free marketing that he's generated purely from this acquisition, and I could probably think of 5 other immediate wins that would justify that price.
If seriously just $35K, bravo!
The fact that it's been through like four companies at this point and none felt they could make it valuable tells you a lot.
For SEO purposes they certainly do. The domain itself is worth $35k easy to people who know how to take advantage of that age.
And I'm sure, Pinboard has a super low run rate . So any additional revenue is likely straight to the bottom line.
Which means, he paid $35K for an immediate 500K new visits(?) to his business today? Plus the continual link and SEO juice he'll get from all future searches that people do for bookmarking service.
And just to note: searched "bookmarking service" . Top link from 2017 points to Delicious still ( no Pinboard ). Next 2 contain links to Delicious, hell even one that is talking about the death of Google's bookmarking service references Delicious.
What. A. Steal.
And he only needs a little over 3,000 people to sign up to Pinboard to make it back. Assuming new visits of 500k, he only needs a conversion rate of 0.6% to do that.
When Delicious forgot to update the browser plugins I looked for a free version, but nothing was as good (and probably as future proof) as Pinboard and it's some of the best $9 (if I remember) deals I've made.