NameMedia Acquires Photo.net
Waltham, MA, Oct. 16, 2007. NameMedia, a leader in developing premium online communities, announced today the acquisition of Photo.net, a community site for photography enthusiasts with more than 600,000 registered users.
The Photo.net gallery boasts more than 2.5 million high quality user-uploaded images.
Photo.net, an online community for photographers to connect and discuss photography, explore galleries, share photographs, and learn more about the art of photography, was founded in 1993 as Philip Greenspun's personal home page at MIT. Every day, Photo.net users post thousands of images, forum responses, photo critiques, classified ads, photo ratings, and comments to the site.
As an established community, Photo.net complements NameMedia’s Photography.com site. Both sites seek to engage users that are passionate about photography by enabling them to connect with each other, discuss photography, explore galleries, share photos, read in-depth articles and product reviews and shop for photographic equipment.
“This acquisition is another example of our strategy at work,” said Jeff Bennett, President and COO of NameMedia. “Starting with our category-leading domain name like Photography.com and adding a rich online community like Photo.net, we now have a leading position in this large and growing market and are extending our network of leading online enthusiast communities that rely on our social networking platform, deliver a rich experience for users and offer a compelling source of leads for marketers.”
About NameMedia
NameMedia is a leader in the acquisition, development and trading of digital real estate through a network of highly targeted websites and a marketplace for premium domain names. The company¹s website development focuses on creating compelling online communities in niche categories. The company¹s marketplace allows owners of premium domain names to list their domain properties for sale, and for domain buyers to review the largest available inventory.
Through its ownership of one of the largest domain portfolios in the world, its innovative website development platform, and its broad distribution, NameMedia now serves more than 60 million visitors to its network of websites and sells domains to customers in more than 100 countries.
Headquartered outside Boston in Waltham, Massachusetts, more information is available at www.namemedia.com.
I hope you can clean up the place and get rid of that small group that seems to get their jollies by needlessly criticing and making fun of people.
Posted by: Al Kaplan | October 17, 2007 at 11:22 PM
I see that the fine traditions as established by Mr. Greenspun on Photo.Net will continue...congratulations!
Posted by: lee chrome | October 18, 2007 at 08:58 PM
Glad I've been banned.
Posted by: Yann R. | October 19, 2007 at 06:08 AM
Methinks that NameMedia have just bought themselves a very dry old lemon. I guess Greenspun can buy another helicopter now... but at least Photo.Net members won't have to suffer his appalling presence anymore.
Posted by: kai.g.r. | October 19, 2007 at 11:07 AM
photo.net could be a great web site for beginner photogaphers,with some ajusting to it,s rating system,and allowing open debate of it,s formate and structure.
It needs to condel it,s members,not rule them.
i am no longer a member,i just use photo.net as it uses me.
Posted by: joe baker | October 19, 2007 at 02:08 PM
Looks like NameMedia got caught up in Greenspun's spinning.
The Photo.net site has little left to offer any serious photographers. I guess that was indeed Greenspun's goal. He did indicate he wanted the site to be the first place a Soccer Mom with a new digi point and shoot would go to find out how to take snap shots.
Posted by: lauriemarie | October 19, 2007 at 09:14 PM
How absolutely and perfectly apropos that photo.net should be acquired by a domain name squatter. That's about all it's fit for these days.
Hardly the Crimson Permanent Assurance, is it?
Posted by: Oof Olaf | October 19, 2007 at 11:06 PM
Another of the best photo.net features is its ability to make people writing a right English.
One of my best memory ever...
Posted by: Yann R. | October 19, 2007 at 11:21 PM
True, Yann. On a similar vein, they had (have?) a rule actually hard-coded into their forum software that disallows postings if they contain misspellings of words, like "aperture". It's because the guy who owned the place had his head so far up his own aperture that he'd lost touch with what forums are for in the first place. Hopefully the new owners will take just enough active interest to get rid of nonsense like that.
Posted by: kai.g.r | October 20, 2007 at 09:44 AM