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Zeal.com Directory to be Reborn

Zeal.com Directory to be Reborn

Former Looksmart web directory gets fresh life.

Zeal.comDomain name broker NameMedia has brokered the sale of the storied domain name Zeal.com for $50,000.

Zeal.com was formerly a human-powered directory run by Looksmart. Looksmart purchased Zeal in 2000 for $20M. It was once seen as a potential rival to Open Directory.

The domain was purchased by Kenneth Yeh, a former volunteer editor of Zeal. On a message on the Zeal.com domain, Yeh writes:

I know that many of you Zealots like myself were very saddened by the loss of Zeal in March 2006.

For those of you who don’t know me, I was a former volunteer editor at Zeal ahead of it shut down.

As the fresh owner of this domain, I hope to rejuvenate Zeal and bring it back to its glory days. I’ve been a software engineer for over 10 years and hopefully, I can use my programming skills to develop a web directory worthy of the name Zeal.

NameMedia sold regarding $600,000 worth of domains over the past week, counting IMMO.net for $30,000. The firm operates Afternic and BuyDomains.

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