Some of the World’s Largest Sites Are Owned by a Few Big Companies

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I did a bit of research on the top 500 most visited websites according to Alexa and came with some very interesting results below.

Did you know that…

is owned by:

which is a company that also owns:

• eHow.com (145th most popular website)
• LiveStrong.com (2730th most popular website)

and also:

For a full list of websites Demand Media owns, see this link.

Did you also know that…

is owned by:

which is a company that also owns:

• Ask.com (56th most popular website)
• Match.com (411th most popular website)

and also:

All of the above sites are incredibly popular. See this Wikipedia page for a full list of sites IAC owns.

What about this company?

They own:

You can find the full list on the CBS Interactive website.

These are the major examples of very big companies that own several popular websites. Here are some also very interesting examples:

Company name: Expedia inc

Sites owned:

• Expedia.com
• Hotels.com
• TripAdvisor.com

Company name: Gawker Media (Gawker Media sites have similar templates so some of you might already know there’s a same company behind them.)

Sites owned:

• Gizmodo.com
• LifeHacker.com

Company name: IGN Entertainment

Sites owned:

• GameSpy.com
• AskMen.com
• GameStats.com

It was quite interesting to discover all of the info above because it isn’t instantly obvious who owns what. Hope you enjoyed the discovery process as I did

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