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boats.com is a Norfolk, Virginia-based online advertising website. In addition to Norfolk, boats.com has operations in Seattle, Washington, Fareham, Padova and Berlin. The company has websites in 9 markets and 8 languages, listing over 350,000 boats in approximately 150 countries. ==History== * boats.com, Inc was founded in 1999, a private, venture capital funded business located at Pier 38, The Embarcadero, in San Francisco. In August, a venture capital funding round generated 21 million dollars second-round investment. * January 2000, boats.com, Inc. agrees from The Cobalt Group (NASDAQ: CBLT) to acquire YachtWorld.com, a popular online yachting marketplace, the first Internet content deal within the boating industry. * May 2004, British Marine Federation (BMF) support for boats.com European Marine Industry Web Awards. * In September 2004, Boats.com, Inc was purchased by Trader Publishing Company, a joint business venture of Landmark Media Enterprises and Cox Enterprises. * September 2006, Landmark Media Enterprises and Cox Enterprises split the assets of Trader Publishing and YachtWorld became part of Dominion Marine Media, a subsidiary of Dominion Enterprises, LLC which was in turn a subsidiary of Landmark Media Enterprises. * January 2013, the Royal Yachting Association launched the RYA Classifieds service which is powered by boats.com. * Today, Ian Atkins is Senior Vice-President and General Manager at Dominion Marine Media which includes the three leading marine brands of YachtWorld, Boat Trader and boats.com. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Boats.com」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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