Article Subject: What happened to all those yesteryear online dating sites?

Dr. Dato’s Brief:

As I was going through some more research on dating review website, I realized that some of these sites still had information on websites that were no longer available, either they had wound down due to lack of business or gobbled up by the bigger players.

Some notable names that sprung to my mind were the following:

Dreammates.com
Yahoo Personals
Kiss.com
Udate.com

Dreammates.com was a free dating site but they closed their doors back in July 2009. If you have been in the dating scene for a while (it can be tough finding the right partner :-)) you will also know about Yahoo Personals. Match.com purchased Yahoo Personals or did some business trade with them back in 2010 but for a while Yahoo Personals appeared to be doing well.

Match.com seems to be gobbling everything it can find in its path like the recent acquisition of OkCupid.

The other two dating sites Kiss.com and Udate.com were sold to Match.com back around early 2000 for a tidy sum of over $100 million to who nonetheless, Match.com.

Match has become so big (maybe arrogant) that they wont even allow you to venture on their site without signing up or filling up some form as can be seen from the picture below.

match become too big for its own comfort?