According to AVN.com there was a record 10 Billion video’s viewed on the web in December 2007.
The figures suggest that about 141 million Americans viewed online video that month.
The particular strong results was attributed to for one the Hollywood writers strike.
The Top Five sites for viewing the videos were:
Google sites including, YouTube.com and Google Video […]

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In a statement released today Microsoft answers the rejection of it’s offer by Yahoo!
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It is unfortunate that Yahoo! has not embraced our full and fair proposal
to combine our companies. Based on conversations with stakeholders of both
companies, we are confident that moving forward promptly […]

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According to reports today Yahoo is seeking to restart merger talks with AOL to fend off the Hostile bid of Microsoft which Yahoo rejected over the weekend.
The report says that the AOL merger is one option being considered by Yahoo, the others being an marketing deal with Google or Disney.
Yahoo and AOL previously failed to […]

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Here are some notable sales from NameJet.com over the last few days.
flagday.com $15,200
xxvideos.com $11,100 (re-auction)
skinrashes.com $9,769
luxurymart.com $4,200
duckpond.com $4,100
airportrides.com $3,500
airportvans.com $2,988
orlandomap.com $2,900
totalfashion.com $1,770
freetrademarksearch.com $1,600
internalcontrol.com $1,560
scooping.com $1,110
prisonreform.com $1,100
Our bargain of the […]

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According to a report published by The Wall Street Journal Online today, the Board of Directors of Yahoo!!!! plan to reject the bid of $31 a share offered by Microsoft a week ago Friday, saying it “massively undervalues” Yahoo.com
It had been reported this week by several source that Yahoo was looking for Microsoft to […]

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Investor’s Business Daily became the third major mainstream media outlet to publish an article about the domain name industry this week,  and this time it was 100% pure love for the industry.
Here is the link
The article highlights Oversee.net; Marchex; DemandMedia; NameMedia; Frank and  Kevin.
The word is getting out.
For all you new guys welcome to the […]

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Looks like only 5 domains were sold at the silent auction of the Idate conference for a total of less than $22K.
Here is the list of domains that sold:
onlinebooty.com $18,830
BIGDAWG.COM $2,077
OnlinePersonal.com $1,180
GAYSENIORLIFE.COM $360
TOTALLYFREEINTERNETDATING.COM $360

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Well Microsoft’s investors have given their opinion of the proposed acquisition of Yahoo, and let the feet do the walking, as they hit the exit, Microsoft shares have lost 14% of there value since it announcing its $44 billion dollar bid for Yahoo.
This 14% loss in share value equate to just about 40 Billion […]

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Mainstream media has picked up on the sale first reported by DNJournal.com, of Cruises.co.uk by the same company that owned Cruise.co.uk.
In an article by MSNBC, they cite it as the largest sale ever of a .co.uk.
Good always to see domain sales news picked up by mainstream media outlets.
There always so surprised how much […]

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Very interesting article on the propsed acquistion of Yahoo by Microsoft.
Recommended reading.
Here is the link:

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