Comments on: Wiki.com partners with MindTouch, says $3m domain is a deal

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By: marie

marie — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 16:21:59 +0000

Good luck in finding wiki.com or any other website supposedly owned by Gotts — look to lawsuit filed in Klickitat County Washington.

By: sal

sal — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 13:38:02 +0000

wiki.com seems to be dead. can anyone please inform when it will be live again, I have a wiki site there which i need to run

By: Joseph

Joseph — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 16:56:27 +0000

Wiki.com now looks to be dead.

If you go to wik.is however it says “the new wiki.com. powered by mindtouch.

It looks like after Gotts dropped MindTouch they waited for him to miss a payment then did a deal on the domain themselves.

Where wikia.com fits in I am not sure, but what is clear is that Gotts does not control the domain and the $3 million deal was a total flop.

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By: Wiki.com - No Longer the $3 million Wikipedia Killer

Wiki.com - No Longer the $3 million Wikipedia Killer — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 11:19:59 +0000

[...] John Gotts, the entrepreneur who agreed to pay $3 million for the domain name Wiki.com and reportedly told people he was “going to kill Wikipedia” may have thrown in the towel after just a few months. Instead of launching the promised Wiki site with MindTouch software, the Wiki.com site now simply redirects to Wikia, another wiki service affiliated with Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. [...]

By: Behind Enemy Lines » Blog Archive » Wiki Round-up

Behind Enemy Lines » Blog Archive » Wiki Round-up — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 17:44:45 +0000

[...] First up is the news that all traffic to Wiki.com is being redirected to Wikia.com. This is somewhat ironic considering that the founder of Wikia, Mr. John Gotts, who paid a cool $3 Million for the Wikia domain and stated at the time that Wikia “Will be a Wikipedia killer” seems to have given in the ghost. As we all know Wikia is the ‘for profit’ incarnation of Wikipedia. So what’s the story here? Has Mr. Gotts been able to get out of the deal or has something more sinister occurred? Has the domain be… gulp… hijacked? More on this later no doubt. [...]

By: Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Wiki.com - No Longer the $3 million Wikipedia Killer

Thu, 04 Jan 2007 02:11:08 +0000

[...] John Gotts, the entrepreneur who paid $3 million for the domain name Wiki.com and reportedly told people he was “going to kill Wikipedia” may have thrown in the towel after just a few months. Instead of launching the promised Wiki site with MindTouch software, the Wiki.com site now simply redirects to Wikia, another wiki service affiliated with Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. [...]

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 17:57:40 +0000

Update:

Now, http://www.wiki.com forwards to http://www.wikia.com. At this point, I would say that John Gotts has officially defaulted on the domain, and that ownership of it has been transferred back to Dynamo.com.

And I was so looking forward to running “vaporware.wiki.com!”

-Dave

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 16:18:39 +0000

Anyone been to http://www.wiki.com lately? There is nothing there. I looked at the Google cache of the main page and saw this:

____________

“We are in the process of making some great changes to the site and will be live again, Monday, December 18th.

The Wiki.com Team”

____________

Hmmm…. Today is Wed, Dec 20th, which does not bode well for Wiki.com. If I were the company that struck a deal with John Gotts for the wiki.com domain, I would be very worried about him defaulting on the $2.8 Million.

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Jamesen — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 07:30:36 +0000

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By: YoungGoGetter » Domain madness

YoungGoGetter » Domain madness — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 20:25:14 +0000

[...] Domain madness August 15th, 2006 Wiki.com has “sold” for $3 million. The insanity is back. [...]

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Helga — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 10:00:31 +0000

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By: My eBusiness » Blubb, Blubb, Blubb …

My eBusiness » Blubb, Blubb, Blubb … — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 07:38:00 +0000

[...] Es blubbert wieder ganz gewaltig bis die Blase platzt. Techcrunch meldet, dass für die Domain wiki.com 3 Millionen Dollar bezahlt wurden und der Investor nennt das ein prima Geschäft. Dazu gibt es gar nicht mehr zu sagen. [...]

By: anoncritic

anoncritic — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 16:17:33 +0000

I seriously doubt that 100k / day claim as “natural type-in” traffic … it seems a lot of traffic domains are actually pointed at wiki.com.

By: Topics2blog

Topics2blog — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 12:21:09 +0000

100k hits per day??
I am shocked..

By: §

Thu, 17 Aug 2006 09:55:02 +0000

If the reported traffic of 100K hits a
day is true then this could well be a
genuine sale.

By: Wikis and The Hype Machine » The Black Fox Blog

Wikis and The Hype Machine » The Black Fox Blog — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 07:15:44 +0000

[...] Wikis are what’s currently hot in the web 2.0 verse right now — so hot, that wiki provider MindTouch has teamed up with entrepreneur John Gotts to pay almost $3 million for the wiki.com domain. For that bargain basement price, I’m sure “naming and trademarking services” company Dynamo, who sold the domain to MindTouch and Gotts, is wiking all the way to the bank. [...]

By: Hornswaggled

Hornswaggled — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 04:57:50 +0000

To Alex Foley: I think you are missing the point on the names here. Blog.com was used as an example of what a popular domain term might be valued at. Blogger is a blog platform. If people are looking for a wiki they would naturally go to wiki.com, not wikier.com. This was the whole point as the argument was that wiki.com was so valuable that everyone would go and sign up, is everyone going to blog.com to start a blog? It doesnt look that way according to Google’s site index.

By: AaronF

AaronF — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 00:55:55 +0000

MindTouch DekiWiki is what powers Wiki.com’s DekiFarm. MindTouch DekiWiki is an interoperable (stores in XHTML) MediaWiki fork that includes a rich text (WYSIWYG) editor, hierarchies, page level permissions, clean interface, file attachment and indexing, image galleries, and more. It is highly highly extensible and scalable. More information can be found at: http://www.OpenGarden.org on DekiWiki and Dream.