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image thumb23 Twitter Gearing Up To Buy TwitterSearch.com… To Prevent Confusion Perhaps?

When you get big you think big and beyond the present. Everything starts appearing important and essential to your goals and with the giants on the Internet, especially in the social media arena, the idea of grabbing related domains is an everyday business.

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image thumb19 Facebook.Me Goes To Facebook – Should We Be Prepared For The F log?

Remember the FB.Me saga that was supposed to be a Tumblr look alike? Well that project might still have some life to it as Facebook grabbed the Facebook.me domain from Amjad Abbas, an individual based in the United Arab Emirates.

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cash thumb Another high priced .com Domain sell out: Insure.com goes for $16 Million

Here comes another news of a .com being sold for a high price, Insure.com was sold for a staggering $16 Million! This makes the Candy.com acquisition pretty low. This one makes a huge leap, given that it was bought for a tenth of its sale price. The site existed as an insurance broker and has been acquired by QuinStreet. The acquisition is the highest in the current year amongst the many domain purchases that have been made so far.

image thumb165 Another .Com Domain makes it big: Call.com bags $1.1 Million

There is a lot of money for domain names, especially the .com ones. We reported the acquisition of Candy for $3 Million and today Call.com bagged $1.1 Million. The domain was sold by Live Current Media, however the buyer’s name remains undisclosed. The sell out is part of the package which includes Exercise.com, Makeup.com and Automobile.com and Live Current will get royalties from the revenue each domain generates. Quite a healthy deal to be honest and money is coming in bulk to such domain names.