Pin Itemailprint 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. This [...]
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Tiger Woods Loses Domain Name Case for Child
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 [...]
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Three Letter Domain Thief Loses Domain Name

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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Candy.com Sells for $3 Million
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 [...]
Best Post of the Year?
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Sedo Sells Results.com for $500,000

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 [...]
Website Profit Formula – Bad News

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 [...]
Detroit Insurance Agency Buys LAinsurance.com for $100,000
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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 [...]
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Special Olympics and the R-Word
Image via Wikipedia 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, [...]
Win $1,000 with Domain Madness Contest

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 [...]
BachelorsDegree.com Sells for $62,500

NameMedia has unloaded 2 big “degree-related” domain names over the past few days – BachelorsDegree.com fetched $62,500 and PsychologyDegree.com pulled a cool $25,000. Both domains would seem to be guarded by Moniker “whois” privacy and forward to the eLearners.com site. Here are a few other education domain names that NameMedia it has sold recently: MastersDegree.com [...]
Jim Morrison Estate Battles for JimMorrison.com Domain

Jim Morrison’s estate is after the domain name JimMorrison.com. They have taken the battle to World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) under UDRP rules. Currently, the domain name belongs to Rick Sentieri. The web site that’s currently up at JimMorrison.com is a bit hazy at best as far as its content goes. The site states: Welcome [...]
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