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For financial institutions, Fund.com offers proprietary licensed content, and constructs and publishes equity-based indices, notes and annuities. Fund.com will license indices and sell leads to structured product providers, including the proprietary Equities Hedge Fund Index that brings hedge fund returns to the mass market. Fund.com is affiliated with Equities magazine, a trade publication serving retail and institutional industries.
For consumers, Fund.com Inc. is a free, consumer-friendly online information source that explains, analyzes, clarifies and highlights investment funds. Their mission is to Educate, Direct, Guide and Evaluate investors of any level of experience, as expressed in the acronym EDGE.
History
Fund.com Inc. was formed in 2007 by Internet entrepreneurs Daniel Klaus, Lucas Mann, and Darren Rennick, who subsequently enlisted the executive services of Wall Street industry veterans; appointing Ray Lang the CEO, Greg Webster, president and Phil Gentile, COO.
The team took Fund.com public by executing a reverse merger with Eastern Services Holdings in January 2008. The merger resulted in the name change to Fund.com Inc, a unique ISBN number, and the ticker “FNDM.BB” on the OTC BB securities market.
Company Structure
Fund.com operates through three fully owned subsidiaries. The first, Fund.com Technologies operates Fund.com’s Internet properties and develops web investment content and tools. The second, Fund.com Managed Products Inc., specializes in developing asset management products. This subsidiary’s primary focus is to identify, construct, publish and license investment fund indexes. Fund.com Managed Products Inc. fully owns another subsidiary: Fund.com Capital Inc., which makes active (non-passive) investments in other financial institutions, fund management companies and strategic products.
Domain Name Sales
In March, 2008 Clek Media announced the company had brokered the sale of the domain name “Fund.com” for nearly $10,000,000 in an all-cash transaction, to the company Fund.com Inc. Fund.com Inc never put out a press release on the transaction. The purchase price is the highest recorded price in history, followed by Porn.com (9,500,000) Business.com (7,500,000) and Diamond.com (7,500,000.) Below is a list of the highest priced domain names:
- Fund.com 9,999,950 2008
- Porn.com 9,500,000 2007
- Business.com 7,500,000 1999
- Diamond.com 7,500,000 2006
- Beer.com 7,000,000 2007
- Asseenontv.com 5,100,000 2000
- SEO.com 5,000,000 2007
- Auction.com 4,500,000 Reserve 2007
- Dermatology.com 4,500,000 Reserve 2007
- HorseRacing.com 4,500,000 Reserve 2007
- Slots.com 4,500,000 Reserve 2007
- PuertoRico.com 3,500,000 Reserve 2007
- Shop.com 3,500,000
- Altavista.com 3,300,000 2002
- Creditcheck.com 3,000,000 2007
- Scotland.com 3,000,000 Reserve2007
- Student.com 3,000,000 Reserve 2007
- Vodka.com 3,000,000 2006
- Wine.com 2,900,000 1999
- CreditCards.com 2,750,000 2004