These sites will not be just dropped. They are too big and worth too much money. If anything they will be bought out by larger companies such as Mark Cubans Broadcast.com was bought by Yahoo in '99.

From what I remember reading, Myspace is to be bought out by Fox or Universal Vivendi, cant remember which it was exactly. I do remember though alot of ill feelings about this.

Originally Posted by Shadow

These sites will not be just dropped. They are too big and worth too much money. If anything they will be bought out by larger companies such as Mark Cubans Broadcast.com was bought by Yahoo in '99.

From what I remember reading, Myspace is to be bought out by Fox or Universal Vivendi, cant remember which it was exactly. I do remember though alot of ill feelings about this.

MySpace has already been bought by Fox. 580 Million to be exact. They sold everything from it's merchandise to it's whole database. I'm sure any corporate buildings that were involved with the company were sold too because My Space had to run on some huge Dedicated Server(s). I would imagine a whole mainframe full of them.

They do hold millions of people on there network.

In fact these big companies would never drop there names, but they have to expire eventually, unless they pay the registrars to hold them until they want to get rid of them.

JJ

The thing im interested in though, is what kind of money it takes to renew such a domain. I cant imagine how immense the cost is to run such a website. I know radio stations on average spend about 2-4 million on their database and servers for their site to keep bandwidth up.

Originally Posted by Shadow

The thing im interested in though, is what kind of money it takes to renew such a domain. I cant imagine how immense the cost is to run such a website. I know radio stations on average spend about 2-4 million on their database and servers for their site to keep bandwidth up.

Yeah prices would be pretty steep. Anyone would imagine it to be. I couldn't imagine someone trying to spend there money on a potentially dropped domain like google or yahoo. I think billions if not more would be the cost for them anyway.

Jason F.

These sites will never go out of business IMO!

Originally Posted by jj2005

These sites will never go out of business IMO!

Never say never. Understand that success is based on trends. The most successful businesses are the ones that buy into the trend early. If you study patterns in ecommerce you will be able to predict which investments are worth your time and money.

All the big companies pay people to do this. Their only job is to study the fluctuations on the various online markets and compare them to various documents. They then relay the valuable information they find to whoever is above them on the food chain. Google started off as a search engine in mid '90s because that was the "new thing," at the time. Since then they have expanded to Gmail, Blogger.com, Google Business Solutions, Google Advertising Service, etc.

Web logs (blogs as they are most commonly refered to) are a current trend and Blogger.com is a new venture by Google in an attempt to stay alive. For a company to survive they have to evolve with the changing times. If a company cant do this, they will fail. Failure will mean loss of ALOT of money, the company will be forced to shut down.

Google, Ebay, Yahoo are not the only of their kind. In reality, they are only the first. In years to come there will be better more powerful versions of their predecessors. These companies of today will be left in the shadows and memories of this gigantic online universe.

C'mon, how many years until Google go down, ALOT! These companies may go down someday but not in a short while.