By: Raymond Hackney
Adam Dicker closed the sale of Download.net, while the specific details of the deal are confidential, Adam confirmed that the name did sell in the six figure range.
Download.net was initially registered in 1996, Adam acquired the name in late 2001 off of Ebay of all places for $3,000.
The new buyer is the owner of Softpedia.com, from Wikipedia:
Softpedia is an Internet site that indexes information and provides software. The site also covers technology, science, health, and entertainment topics from external and in-house sources and provides software and game reviews. Like Download.com, it is a “popular destination for software downloads”.[3]
It is owned by SoftNews NET SRL., a Romanian company.[4] As of 2012, it was the 25th most-visited site by Romanians,[5][4] although the website caters primarily to English speakers.[1] In 2006, 95% of revenue came from outside Romania. By 2007 it had 3.5 million visitors per week and most were from abroad.[6]
Congrats to the buyer and Adam on one of the biggest .net sales of the year.
