{"id":3491,"date":"2017-04-22T13:55:41","date_gmt":"2017-04-22T17:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/?p=3491"},"modified":"2017-04-26T14:00:35","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T18:00:35","slug":"whatever-happened-to-slots-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/whatever-happened-to-slots-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Whatever Happened to Slots.com?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"7 years ago, online gaming entrepreneur Calvin Ayre made internet history when he purchased Slots.com for $5.5 million. When the news initially surfaced, it was unclear who bought the domain name for such a lofty amount. Tech Crunch<\/a> offered the following at the time:<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s unclear who the buyer is and how they plan to recuperate the purchase sum exactly, and the seller\u2019s identity has been shielded from public eyes.<\/p>\n

Rest assured he or she has enough pocket money to play the slots for a long time now, though.”<\/em><\/p>\n

This was of course back in the day when domain names carried extreme importance with regard to search engine optimization. And while domains still carry some weight, it’s a wonder if Ayre would’ve payed $5.5 million for Slots.com today.<\/p>\n

What did Ayre do with the Slots.com Name?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A quick glance at the site reveals that he hasn’t done much of anything. We visited the page and were asked to visit another one of the Bodog<\/a> brand’s casinos.<\/p>\n

Convinced that the results would be different if we visited through a proxy server (another country), all we got was a blank page.<\/p>\n

Ayre’s Bodog operation has been one of the most successful in online gaming history. It rose from an obscure site back in the 1990s to become a well-known brand that included everything from MMA promotions to musicians.<\/p>\n

But when it comes to Slots.com, Ayre seems to have whiffed on the $5.5 million purchase.<\/p>\n

What can We Expect from Slots.com in the Future?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nothing much has been done with Slots.com up to this point. But can we expect this to change any time in the future?<\/p>\n

It’s been 7 years since the domain name was purchased, so we don’t see anything big happening for Slots.com. But Bodog is a brand that licenses its domains and content. So perhaps we’ll see somebody use the name for an online casino that some point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

7 years ago, online gaming entrepreneur Calvin Ayre made internet history when he purchased Slots.com for $5.5 million. When the news initially surfaced, it was unclear who bought the domain name for such a lofty amount. Tech Crunch offered the following at the time: “It\u2019s unclear who the buyer is and how they plan to …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,4,82],"tags":[977,975,976,978],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3491"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3491"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3497,"href":"https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3491\/revisions\/3497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slotsmamma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}