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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So you want to make money in the domain name game.  It’s not easy.
You know what would help?  Learning from an expert. Do you want to learn something from an expert?  For free?
Then you need to go here and check out this post by Mike over at WannaDevelop…
Best Post of the Year
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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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Bad news.
The doors to Website Profit Formula are very close to shutting and you’re close to missing your chance to get your hands on this new formula and learning…
- How To Get Instant Page Rank.
- How To Generate Traffic From Social Media Sites.
- The Secret To Owning Many Profitable Sites At The Same Time.
- The [...]

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L.A. Insurance has bought the domain LAInsurance.com from NameMedia for $100,000.
As it turns out, L.A. Insurance is not based in Los Angeles.  The company has 150 locations and currently uses the domain name LAInsuranceAgency.com.
With 150 locations, the actual price equals about $133 per store for the next five years.  The company is actually based in [...]

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Earlier today, we told about how President Obama put his foot in his mouth on The Tonight Show last night.
Timing is everything.
The Special Olympics is readying a new ad-campaign called “the r-word”.  The organization is trying to compare the word “retard” to various other words that people shouldn’t utter aloud, like the n-word.
This [...]

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Who needs March Madness when there is Domain Madness?
Domain Consultant has just announced the Domain Madness competition, which will let you predict which of their domain names will be sold during their auction.  The prize?   $1,000 – yes one thousand dollars!
The online auction will be powered by Aftermarket.com.  It will go from  from March 26 [...]

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