One day I want to sell my website network for millions and so today I did some research to see whats possible and I was happily surprised when I came across so many high prices paid for websites. Ryan Allis said “You have to work with the end in mind and every day make sure your working towards it” and thats what I am doing. Every website I create is a asset I can sell one day, it doesn’t just earn me money every day, it will be my retirement fund 😉 !
30 Websites That Sold For A Lot Of Money
| Rank | Website | Acquired By | Price | Acquisition Date |
| 1 | Aquantive | Microsoft | $6,333,000,000 | 13-Aug-2007 |
| 2 | Broadcast | Yahoo! | $5,700,000,000 | 1-Apr-1999 |
| 3 | Geocities | Yahoo! | $3,600,000,000 | 28-May-1999 |
| 4 | Youtube | $1,650,000,000 | 9-Oct-2006 | |
| 5 | Marketing Yahoo! | Yahoo! | $1,630,000,000 | 14-Jun-2003 |
| 6 | Bebo | AOL | $850,000,000 | 13-Mar-2008 |
| 7 | Tell Me | Microsoft | $800,000,000 | 14-Mar-2007 |
| 8 | Club Penguin | Disney | $700,000,000 | 1-Aug-2007 |
| 9 | Right Media | Yahoo! | $680,000,000 | 29-Apr-2007 |
| 10 | Real Media 24/7 | WPP | $649,000,000 | 17-May-2007 |
| 11 | Postini | $625,000,000 | 16-Nov-2006 | |
| 12 | MySpace | News Corp | $580,000,000 | 18-Jul-2005 |
| 13 | Adult Friend Finder | Penthouse Media Group | $500,000,000 | 11-Dec-2007 |
| 14 | Mezi Media | ValueClick | $352,000,000 | 16-Jul-2007 |
| 15 | Zimbra | Yahoo! | $350,000,000 | 17-Sep-2007 |
| 16 | Business | R.H. Donnelley | $345,000,000 | 26-Jul-2007 |
| 17 | Blue Lithium | Yahoo! | $300,000,000 | 4-Sep-2007 |
| 18 | Audible | Amazon | $300,000,000 | 31-Jan-2008 |
| 19 | Last FM | CBS | $280,000,000 | 30-May-2007 |
| 20 | Tacoda | AOL | $275,000,000 | 24-Jul-2007 |
| 21 | How Stuff Works | Discovery | $250,000,000 | 15-Oct-2007 |
| 22 | Photo Bucket | Fox Interactive | $250,000,000 | 30-May-2007 |
| 23 | Hitwise | Experian | $240,000,000 | 19-Apr-2007 |
| 24 | Sidestep | Kayak | $200,000,000 | 20-Dec-2007 |
| 25 | Fandango | Comcast | $200,000,000 | 11-Apr-2007 |
| 26 | Web Dialogs | IBM | $161,000,000 | 22-Aug-2007 |
| 27 | Havok | Intel | $110,000,000 | 14-Sep-2007 |
| 28 | Ugo | Hearst | $100,000,000 | 24-Jul-2007 |
| 29 | Feedburner | $100,000,000 | 23-May-2007 | |
| 30 | iStock Photo | Getty Images, Inc. | $50,000,000 | 9-Feb-2006 |
To our success in 2009,
Michael Dunlop
PS. How much do you plan to sell your website one day?
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