Impulse Communications, Inc. is an Internet company founded in 1995 that owns hundreds of domain names, and also runs websites such as BoredHumans.com and Adoptme.com.
Owner Profile – Eric Borgos
Eric graduated with a finance degree from Babson College in 1991 and ran several different businesses until he found his calling on the Internet in 1995. Since that time, Eric’s websites have been featured in publications such as the Wall Street Journal, Entrepreneur Magazine, Readers Digest, USA Today, Popular Science, and Inc. Magazine, talked about on radio stations such as National Public Radio (NPR), and mentioned on TV shows such as Extra and TechTV.
Some interesting facts about Eric are:
- Never met any of the people who work for him.
- Invented a toy and got it sold in Toys “R” Us.
- Bought 2 retail flower stores thousands of miles away without visiting them first or knowing anything about the flower business (or even about how to run a store).
- Opened an office, staffed it, but never once went to it.
- Tried to go public on the stock exchange, through a reverse merger. Did not go well.
- Never had a business plan.
- Bought and sold hundreds of websites, all without ever meeting the people he was dealing with.
- In 2008, sold his Bored.com network of websites for $4.5 million.
- In 2011, sold a portfolio of 4000 of his domains for $1.3 million.
- In 2013, sold a portfolio of 4600 of his domains (a non-disclosure agreement prevents the price from being listed).
- In 2017, stopped developing new websites to instead focus on machine learning (AI).
Company Contact Info
Mailing Address:
Impulse Communications, Inc.
9450 SW Gemini Dr. #56742
Beaverton, OR 97008
Email: eric@impulsecorp.com.
Phone: 401-789-0885
Please email us instead of calling. We do not respond by phone.
Company Background
In 1990, Impulse Communications, Inc. was formed as a sole proprietorship and changed to a Nevada corporation in 2000. In 2008, Impulse Communications, Inc was sold and reorganized as a Delaware company under the same name. The company makes money from from ad income, e-commerce, and domain name sales.
Here are some significant events in its history:
- Impulse Communications was originally formed to provide computer consulting services such as installations of business automation software, computerized accounting systems, contact management software and point of sale systems.
- From 1995-1997, with the increasing acceptance of the Internet, its focus shifted to designing and hosting websites, while at the same time developing several websites of its own (such as Bored.com, Inventing.com, Cashflow.com, and Findcash.com).
- In that same time period, it also purchased dozens of domain names from Network Solutions, a company that registers domain names on the Internet.
- Starting in 1998, Impulse Communications has focused exclusively on developing new websites using the domain names it already owns and continues to purchase new domain names for future development.
- In January 2008, Impulse Communications sold Bored.com and 170 related sites for $4.5 million.
- In May 2011, Impulse Communications sold a package of 4000 domain names for $1.3 million.
- In 2013, Impulse Communications sold the majority of its 5000 unused domains.
- In 2017, sold Dumb.com.
- In 2020, started BoredHumans.com.
Impulse Communications, Inc. Financials
2020
Sales: $10,012
Net income: $-65,665
2019
Sales: $15,663
Net income: $-53,267
2018
Sales: $32,939
Net income: $-48,347
2017
Sales: $175,178 (mainly from selling Dumb.com)
Net income: $56,758
2016
Sales: $272,091
Net income: -$138,510
2015
Sales: $414,592
Net income: -$53,961
2014
Sales: $484,500
Net income: $-8,065
2013
Sales: $1,993,991
Net income: $1,351,652 (mainly from selling a portfolio of 4600 domains)
2012
Sales: $1,252,065
Net income: $138,462
2011
Sales: $2,845,231
Net income: $1,544,782 (mainly from selling a portfolio of 4000 domains)
2010
Sales: $1,350,845
Net income: $285,086
2009
Sales: $1,230,587
Net income: $186,197
2008
Sales: $1,896,990
Net income: $106,547
2007
Sales: $2,355,023
Net income: $91,179
2006
Sales: $2,800,744
Net income: $-118,553
2005
Sales: $2,949,457
Net income: $-5,899
2004
Sales: $3,081,921
Net income: $199,013
2003
Sales: $2,479,827
Net income: $-200,542
2002
Sales: $1,701,670
Net income: $-7,183
2001
Sales: $1,556,583
Net income: $-30,478
2000
Sales: $1,559,759
Net income: $438,496
1999
Sales: $1,049,024
Net income: $397,204
1998
Sales: $430,200
Net income: $120,704
1997
Sales: $114,703
Net income: $19,174