There were a bunch of acquisitions and investments involving hundreds of million that you probably didn't hear about this week. BUMP technologies, a company that makes a App that allows people to share contact information by just bumping their smart phones together raised $16 Million dollars. The company uses a hack for its web site of BU.MP. If your wondering, MP is the country code for … [Read more...]
Kevin Ham Buys ThreeWords.Me
A couple of nights ago we wrote about the domain name threewords.me which was for sale based off its huge visitor and user count. Tonight comes word via Mashable.com that none other than Kevin Ham has stepped up to buy the site. Terms we not disclosed bu considering that the in-house auction was suppose to run for 5 days and the site sold in just 2 might indicate a pretty nice price for Mark … [Read more...]
AY.com Hits the Auction Block At Flippa With A Buy It Now Price of “Just $2 Million Dollars”
The domain name AY.com has just been listed at Flippa.com with a buy it now price of "just $2 Million Dollars" According to the press release tonight that cited the recently reported sale of FB.com to Facebook for over $8 Million: "As recently as a few months ago, Facebook purchased the domain name “FB.com” for $8.5 million." ""2-letter “dot com” domain names are so rare, it’s hard to … [Read more...]
For Sale: A 1 Month Old Site; 253K Users; 4.9 Million Visitors; Oh Yeah Its A .Me
TechCrunch.com wrote tonight about a site that is for sale which boasts 253,000 users, 4.9 Million Visitors, 17 Million Page Views and is only around 30 days old. And if that doesn't make you feel kind of sick to your stomach the webmaster is only 18 years old. And did I tell you the site is a .Me? Threewords.me is the site which is now for sale. The domain was hand registered on … [Read more...]
The Worlds Longest TM Domain? Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle.com
Going through a drop list I came across this beauty which I'm just going to give the title to as the world's longest trademark infringing domain. The domain which was registered in October 2008, is dropping in the next couple of days. Amazingly enough this domain actually even has a small Alexa Ranking. … [Read more...]
Microsoft Spent $50 Million Dollars On Jellyfish.com In 2007 & Doesn’t Have It Set To Work Without The WWW. In Front
Years before Groupon was even in existence, back In October 2007 Microsfot shelled out a reported $50 Million Dollars for the Shopping site Jellyfish.com Today the domain name doesn't even resolve, unless as Mike below points out you type in the address as www.jellyfish.com. If you type in just Jellyfish.com into your browser the domain does not resolve. While this is an pretty … [Read more...]
The Next Hot Domain Trend: Dot……. Domains For New Extensions
As you know the new gTLD's are coming and the domain of choice of those seeking new extension has quickly adopted the Dot.......Com/Org as their domain of choice to market their proposed extension. A couple of months ago we reported that ICM registry acquired dotxxx.com for $25,000 to use as their site (although .XXX is not a new gTLD) Also the .Co registry owns and uses … [Read more...]