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Season 3, Episode 5: Alibaba

Acquired

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A New Company - Ali Baba Dot Com

A company called ali baba dot com started out as a bulletin board for businesses in the china market. The domain name is owned by a canadian guy, and it takes them about a year to negotiate buying the domain name from them. Domain names just keep showing up on acquired i know, boy, if there's one thing that's constant among a bunch of our companies, it's long, drawn out domain name acquisitions.

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