Ask.com bought several reference sites including  Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com and Reference.com in its acquisition of Lexico Publishing Group LLC.
Terms of the deal, set to be announced Thursday, aren’t being disclosed.
Dictionary.com is the most popular of the newly acquired reference sites, drawing 22.1 million visitors worldwide in March, according to comScore Inc. That represented a 20 percent [...]

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According to a report in the Associated Press, Google for the first time, has passed Yahoo as the most popular Web destination in the U.S., according to research firm comScore Inc.
Google U.S. audience grew 18% in April compared with the period a year earlier, to 141.1 million.
Yahoo’s U.S. audience, grew only 7% to 140.6 million.
Microsoft  [...]

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According to a report by the Assoicated Press,VeriSign, Inc.,  won a patent for its SiteFInder Service which directs users to landing pages when they mistype a web address on March 4, 2008.
According to the report, VeriSign Inc. said it has no intentions of resurrecting the Site Finder service, but it declined further comment on its [...]

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According to a report in the Wall Street Journal today,  as we discussed yesterday, Billionaire investor Carl Icahn is launching a proxy contest to unseat Yahoo’s board of directors.
Icahn plans to nominate 10 directors to replace Yahoo’s board before a deadline Thursday, including former Viacom Inc. Chief Executive Frank Biondi, who has worked with Icahn [...]

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Late today, reports surfaced that Carl Icahn acquired up to 50 million shares in Yahoo.
According to the reports, Icahn is considering mounting a proxy fight to take control of the board of directors at Yahoo.
Shares of Yahoo were up more than 5% in afternoon trading, after having been down over $1 a share earlier in [...]

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So now that Microsoft attempt to buy Yahoo has failed (at least for now) what can Microsoft do to take traffic away from Yahoo and Google and put it towards MSN??
How about buy domains. More specifically large domain portfolio and redirect the traffic to MSN.
Microsoft was willing to spend 46 Billion for Yahoo.
By all [...]

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Fusu.com billed as the world’s first and only domain stock exchange seems to be getting a lot of buzz in the industry.

However is it legal????

I started looking at this a couple of weeks ago, as I was considering listing one of my domains for sale.

It looks like a great idea, sell part of a domain, [...]

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loan.biz $11,350
filedivorce.com $8,200
chilling.com $7,900
usnationalparks.com $7,770
beardtrimmer.com $6,500
collegerental.com $6,300
poptop.com $4,900
missourilawyer.com $3,403
egal.com $3,400
logicbox.com $3,300
screenplay.net $3,200
negotiated.com $2,800
visits.org $2,600
bouncyboobs.com $2,600
mdb.net $2,100
mdb.net $1,800
flirting.org $1,600

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I have seen a lot of people in the domain community discussing, Estibot.com lately.
Estibot.com is an automated domain appraisal tool.
Type a domain into it and it will give you back an appraisal for a domain.
I thought is would be interesting to see what appraisal Esibot.com gave to the Live TRAFFIC names.
Here the top ten domains [...]

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The .ORG registry operator, Public Interest Registry (PIR) sent a letter to ICANN announcing their intention to increase their registration fees by 10% as of November 9th, 2008. The price increase brings the price for registrars up to $6.75 from $6.15 after last year’s price increase by 2.5%.
Verisign already announced a price increase for .com [...]

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