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Lycos sells HotBot.com for $155,000

Lycos sells HotBot.com for $155,000

Remember HotBot.com? Someone wants to breathe fresh life into it.

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Lycos has sold the domain name HotBot.com, which has a long and storied history.

HotBot has gone through a number of iterations but started as a meta search engine that would query search (and directory) results from multiple search engines and directories. It was relaunched in 2011 as a portal and metasearch engine pulling results from Yahoo, MSN and IlGo.com.

The fresh owner is holding the domain at GoDaddy and is using a whois privacy service. The nameservers still point to Lycos.

Although we don’t yet know who bought the domain name, at this price we can assume they have plans for it. HotBot 8.0, coming soon.

The sale was brokered by Sedo.

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