Yahoo has managed to pull off a coup by purchasing the domain name OMG.com for just $80,000.  The company just made the purchase last week.
Sure, that may seem like a lot of money, but remember that, not too long ago, candy.com sold for $3 million and toys.com sold for $5.1 million.
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Tiger Woods has lost an arbitration hearing to get the domain name that is identical to one of his kids’ names.
The case involved Woods’ second son, Charlie Axel Woods, and the domain name CharlieAxelWoods.com. To make his case, Woods claimed the domain name was confusingly similar to his trademark for “Tiger Woods” – but the [...]

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A company called “Site Service International” has lost a domain name arbitration case for the domain AHI.com. According to the complainant AHI Invest GmbH of Vienna, Austria, the domain name was stolen from it.
This is not the first time Site Service International has lost a case for a 3-letter domain name that was allegedly [...]

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Domain registrations and investments are showing signs of life in 2009. There is no better indicator of this than the recent acquisition of the candy.com domain name.
It sold for $3 million to G&J Holdings.  This is the 2nd-largest domain purchase this year, following the Toys R Us purchase of toys.com.
G&J Holdings will use the new [...]

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Well, not THAT Susan Boyle, the other one.
Domain name susanboyle.com is now being sold for $25,000.  The seller is Susan Boyle.
American artist, Susan K. Boyle, has owned the domain name since 2002.  Recently, her traffic has gone through the roof, as you might imagine.  More than a few visitors were a bit unhappy at arriving [...]

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The folks over at Amazon are less than happy with Swiss startup Amazee, a social collaboration service – so much so that Amazon wants them to change their name.
This battle has been going on for a while, but Amazee is now escalating things by using stronger verbiage than they have in the past, stating that [...]

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Actress Sigourney Weaver (Alien, Ghostbusters, Working Girl) has filed for arbitration to obtain the domain name SigourneyWeaver.com.
The case will be heard by an arbitration panel from the National Arbitration Forum under the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP).
The domain name was registered back in 1999 but then changed hands in 2005. The ‘whois’ record for the [...]

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Sedo is having another good month.
The domain parking and selling company has just sold the domain names Results.com for $500,000 and BabyShop.com for $85,000.
Results.com currently resolves to a business coaching company, however that site has been on the domain since last December.
The e-mail address is that of Sedo but the DNS and ownership information [...]

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Actress Elizabeth Taylor has filed a domain dispute with National Arbitration Forum to get the ElizabethTaylor.com domain name back.
Surprisingly, this is not the first time Ms. Taylor has tried to get the domain name.
Back in June of ‘05 she filed for arbitration to get the domain name.  She lost.
The respondent’s argument was that the name [...]

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When Dell decided to launch its brand new Adamo laptop, there was one minor detail the company had over looked.  It didn’t own the Adamo.com domain name.
Tucows owned it as part of its Yummy Names collection. Dell has come around now and just bought the name, which now seems to resolve to Dell’s official Adamo [...]

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