The website, design and content for PokerNewsDaily.com (PND) and PokerTerms.com went on sale at auction on eBay, Wednesday.
The two sites are part of the Player Poker Network, a collection of sites that includes properties TheNuts, PocketFives, PokerSoftware.com and PokerSource (formerly PokerSourceOnline.)
According to the eBay listing of PND, the sale includes the domain name, brand, all content and user data. Not included are the valuable affiliate accounts, or any contracts with staff writers. The listing on the PokerTerms.com has similar terms.
“Buy It Now”
Last week, the sale was first announced on the Poker Affiliate Listings forum.
“If you want to 'buy it now’ on either of these, make me an offer – feel free to PM,” wrote Adam Small, CEO of Protos Marketing, the marketing firm behind the network.
“We’re not leaving up a specific 'buy it now’ price, but any offers that come in before the 15th will be taken seriously. If we don’t have an offer we’re comfortable with by that date, it’ll go to auction as planned.”
The auctions went live today, indicating no suitable offers were made in time. The auction listings themselves do not have a “buy it now” price.
“Power Affiliates”
According to the Google Analytics screenshots shown on the ebay auction, PokerNewsDaily attracts approximately 160k page views monthly, boasting 700k visitors so far in 2011.
In March, industry magazine EGR listed PND amongst the top 10 Power Affiliates of 2011, listing Michael Jackness and Adam Small the founders of the network, employing over 60 people.
PokerTerms.com, a reference site dedicated to poker terminology, attracts approximately 500 visitors daily.
Both auctions end early on June 25.
