Messenger Viber was bought from a businessman Vyacheslav Semenchuk domain name viber.ru, according to “Kommersant” with reference to the Semenchuk and head of “Viber Russia” Evgeny Roshchupkin.
The amount of the transaction were not disclosed. “We got a domain name in order to attract organic traffic to users went to the official page. Wanting to get on the website of a company, people usually type in the address bar, company name and domain zone. We also encourage you to be more careful as more and more scammers and spammers are using the name Viber for profit”, — said the publication Roshchupkin. According to him, now the domain name viber.ru will lead to the official resource of the company viber.com.
Such deals domain market are quite common, says Director of the information services coordination center of national domain of network the Internet Olga Alexandrova-myasina. She recalls that “Mail of Russia” last year bought the media holding RBC domain pochta.ru to restart your website.
According to domain investor Paul gross, Viber could get viber.ru “for a nominal sum”. “If we were talking about the international Internet portal, which decided to enter the Russian market, then another thing”— he said. But because of the crisis, Western companies have ceased to enter the Russian market, and in the country registered fewer new companies, which market the sale of domains is suffering, says Mr. gross.””Recent major deals have been with matras.ru, saturn.ru, mega.ru — all happened in this year, the amount exceeded $100 thousand And for example, in our inquiry about redemption whatsapp.ru token money in WhatsApp did not react,” he says.
Viber was founded in 2010 by Igor Magazinnik and Talmon Marco. In February 2014, the Japanese online retailer Rakuten has acquired the mobile messenger service for $900 million Viber Today, according to its own data, more than 760 million users in the world, including 60 million in Russia.
In early may it became known that Viber has found a payment partner for Russia. Now Viber users in Russia can top up balance to make calls to external phone numbers via the payment system Wallet One. The agreement was signed between the companies.
