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Primedia Has Purchased Rental.com

Posted by Dave Dugdale  Published in Primedia

I can’t be sure when they purchased Rental.com (not Rentals.com their flagship site) because the WayBack Machine doesn’t have any public record of this URL, but I do know they own it now.

Wow, I wish I knew what they paid for that domain name? $250,000? The domain rental.com was originally purchased in 1994.

At first I was pretty scared that with the acquisition of this domain would come a ton of SEO power that I might never be able to pass, but on further review I am happy to say that the Rental.com domain does not carry much SEO power that they can use to their advantage.

I don’t think it is really my place to say what they are using it for right now, but you can certainly take a look. :) (Sorry CSI developers and programmers.)

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Avid Reader said in June 11th, 2007 at 10:53 am

They are currently running their beta off of it.

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Robbie said in June 11th, 2007 at 6:06 pm

There “beta” site is very slow…

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Robbie said in June 11th, 2007 at 6:07 pm

Guess there not going to list property managers on there beta site? I don’t see them?

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Dave said in June 11th, 2007 at 9:21 pm

One reason that it might run slow is that the page is around 800K large where RentClicks is at 400K.

My home page is 60K.

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Victor said in June 19th, 2007 at 2:53 pm

Maybe you should register RentVines.com and re-design your site. You could release a beta with the same exact content!