[Ads-l] Lexico -> Rock Holdings

[Baker, John]

I do not have any more information about the Lexico acquisition, but a deliberately obfuscatory 2018 press release about Rock Holdings’ acquisition of Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com is at https://pressroom.rocketmortgage.com/2018/11/15/detroit-based-rock-holdings-acquires-dictionary-com-and-thesaurus-com/.


John Baker


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The Lexico website now goes to dictionary.com, which doesn’t mention (https://www.dictionary.com/e/about/<https://www.dictionary.com/e/about> <https://www.dictionary.com/e/about/<https://www.dictionary.com/e/about/>>) the transition but does say it’s owned by Rock Holdings, Inc.

According to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexico<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexico> <s://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexico<s://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexico>>), this has occurred as of two days ago:

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On 26 August 2022, Lexico was closed and redirected to Dictionary.com.[16] Oxford Dictionaries Premium was still available.[17]
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Rock Holdings (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Mortgage<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Mortgage> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Mortgage<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Mortgage>>) holds Quicken Loans and Rocket Mortgage and acquired Lexico from IAC, another holding company.

Does anyone have any more detailed information?

Benjamin Barrett (he/him/his)
Formerly of Seattle, WA
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