It’s been a tumultous few months for Seeqpod, the powerful music search engine that skimmed the web for music files hosted on other servers. In March the site finally cracked under the weight of multiple lawsuits brought on by the major record companies and filed for bankruptcy protection. Then came word that it may-or-may-not have been acquired by Microsoft, though the deal still has yet to be confirmed.
Today we’re hearing that Seeqpod has started looking to sell off its seeqpod.com domain name, pending an acquisition deal that is about to close. We got in touch with CEO Kasian Franks, who refused to confirm the rumors, saying that a deal has “not officially closed” and that a decision to unload the domain is still “up in the air”. It may not be official yet, but given that the company has apparently begun prodding for buyers for the domain, it sounds like it’s nearly finalized.
Franks was willing to talk vaguely about the pending deal, saying that multiple major suitors are involved. He also noted that any acquisition would be about the company’s technology, and not necessarily the Seeqpod brand. While Franks still won’t name the companies involved, he says that they have no issues with acquiring more traffic, which is why the company may wind up selling Seeqpod.com.
Update: As commentor Spencer Schoeben points out below, visiting Seeqpod.com and clicking the site’s logo will take you to Microsoft’s new Bing search engine. So, yeah — it’ll be very surprising if Microsoft isn’t ultimately named as one of the companies involved with the acquisition.
That brand name is ass.
I quite agreed. The domain name leaves people who haven’t heard of it wondering what the heck it is about. The name lacks a grabby force -:))
will it be bing music search?
willing to be it’s a natural language domain. why sell an established domain seqpod when you would normally forward it to the new domain?
willing to bet the new domain is a natural language property. why sell seqpod when you would normally just forward the domain to the new site?
willing to bet its a natural language domain name they are looking at.
why sell seqpod when normally you would just forward the domain name to the new one?
PlayLocator.com – horse around
Check out Viixy.com? Or Favtape.com? Those are better anyway.
Will do. Thanks for the links.
i can’t imagine micro$oft actually buying seeqpod.
If you go to their domain name you will notice that their logo links to Bing.
Interesting.
Great catch, updated the post.
That was a really good service, but now I’m doubly glad I didn’t pay for the WinMo app (I’m also leaving Sprint and getting an iPhone is about 10 days:)
Guy chech out Tagoo.ru it searches for music videos soft, has AJAX and XML API and nice desighn;)
Seeqpod is not that bad. Pretty clever.
- Sinsanity
http://www.sinsanity.com
That was a really good service I quite agreed. The domain name leaves people who haven’t heard of it wondering what the heck it is about.
Bing music search?
Remember when youtube was bought by google?
1/3 of all money (~1.65B) went on settlements with major records companies. Of course they bought 6 months of free use and rapid user adoption.
Wonder how big is their stake at this settlement?
So if they linked the site to whitehouse.gov, would that imply that the federal government was buying them? Since when does a link to a search engine constitute interest from that company. Where do you come up with these speculations. Nothing helps Seeqpod more in generating interest in bailing out investors, then being techcrunched on speculation of a deal that they dream about.
Well, for a well-funded company, every link on the homepage should be scrutinized. They could have linked to google or yahoo but didn’t
I just got a tweet update that Sedo “the leading domain marketplace” is selling the domain name, SeeqPod.com. Is this true?! I don’t know Sedo is, but I am curious of this will sell.
SeeqPod.com redirects to Bing.com
Anything is possible in business world,.