According to this report at techcrunch Arstechnica.com was sold to Conde Nast’s Wired.com The price does not appear to be disclosed, but techcrunch quotes the sale price at a reported US$25 million in cash.
If this indeed were the case, it does make the sale of the weblogsinc.com network of blogs to Aol for a reported US$25 million look like a bargain. Amongst other popular blogs, weblogsinc included engadget.com, and others like joystiq.com and autoblog.com
engadget.com is clearly the leading blog in the technology field
engadget is the no 1 blog according to technorati, arstechnica is ranked number 7 on technorati.
the alexa rating for engadget is 382 considerably higher than arstechnica’s 2,382
Arstechnica.com does the advantage of having a forum with over 9 million posts, which makes it the 13th largest computer hardware forum in the world according to big-boards.com