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Cybersquatter Gets Tracked Down By Golfers Dad

January 11th, 2010

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Casie Cathrea became the youngest Monday qualifier for an LPGA event at Blackhawk Country Club. A high school freshman who made a hole-in-one on the 155-yard 12th hole during the opening round of a LPGA Challenge found herself vitim of cyber squatter Meng Lee. Her official website is Cathrea.com.

Her father, Harry Cathrea tracked down Leonard Meng Lee who registered CasieCathrea.com and threatened to sue Lee under the Federal Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act.

In fact he resided close by the Cathrea family home and Harry went to his door to talk to him.

“It cost him two bucks and he wanted to charge me a thousand dollars”

“And he was also nice enough to say he accepts Paypal.” Harry said

Meng Lee who has registered more than 1,300 domain names of famous people, including Eldrickwoods.com. was forced to hand this domain over free of charge.

In a statement to ABC7 Lee said “As far as I know, the name is not trademarked and I was legally in the right to register the domain”.

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A Look At The Top 10 Sales Of 2009

January 9th, 2010

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2010 is here and were already nine days in and already I can feel it being a great year for domainers. More sales , higher priced sales and an all round good year.

Although 2009 wasn’t all that bad, lets take a look back at the top 10 sales of 2009. Top sales of 2009 add up too $18,150,000 which is an 11% increase from 2008 sales of $16,118,642.

All top sales in 2009 were .com domains, where as in 2009 there were 4 ccTLDs in among the top 10.

Large sales were reported such as Cricket.com for $1.7 million, DropShippers.com for $1.5 million and Insure.com sold for $16 million. These are not included in the top 10 as they are fully fledged businesses and the buyer was not just getting the domain.

1.) Toys.com $5,100,000

2.) Candy.com $3,000,000

3.) Fly.com $1,760,000

4.) Auction.com $1,700,000

5.) Ticket.com $1,525,000

6.) Russia.com $1,500,000

7.) Call.com $1,100,000

8.) Webcam.com $1,020,000

9.) Server.com $770,000

10.) Luck.com $675,000

As you can see the top sales of 2009 are quite impressive and it will be interesting to how the sales of 2010 will compare and what domains they will be.

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AOL Set To Acquire Mashable?

January 8th, 2010

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mashable_logo Mashable a blog run by Pete Cashmore which has taken over TechCrunch as the largest tech blog online, may be set for a take over by AOL.

Mashable is favoured by Twitter users and their posts are trending on a daily basis on the popular social website. The deal still a speculation at the moment and no mention of an acquisition amount. Pete has declined to comment on the rumours but insiders information from Aolers suggests that the deal is ongoing.

From Gawker: Taken from penn olsen

“Mashable’s proven ability to generate great numbers and game Google and Twitter is part of the appeal, then, our AOL insider tells us. The site excels not only at writing Google-friendly content but also at earning a flood of links on social networks, most notably Twitter.”

It will be interesting to see how this unfolds. Is it worth it for mashable to sell. AOL acquired bebo.com and that has dropped almost 200 alexa ranks since AOL took over from #99 down to almost #300 visited site. Should mashable stick to what they are doing and dominate the web?

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MSNBC Buys BreakingNews.com

January 5th, 2010

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MSNBC started using the Twitter account @BreakingNews about one month ago. They have over 1.4 million followers under that Twitter account today. Today the news network purchased the domain “BreakingNews.com”

They plan to devlop a website that will list the feed from Twitter and which will have extra news also. They purchased the name from PV Media Group.

President of the MSNBC Digital Network, said in a statement: “Hard and fast breaking news is currently an underserved market. With www.breakingnews.com we can now provide the optimal solution.”

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Live Current Media Sell Indonesia.com?

January 3rd, 2010

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Live Current Media has apparently sold Indonesia.com.

Domain name wire reports that the whois record for Indonesia.com was shown as communicate.com on the 30th of December. On January 1st it had been changed to domain broker Sedo’s transfer account.

Live Current Media had a great year in 2009 which included some great sales.

call.com – $1.1 million

Cricket.com

Brazil.com for $500,000

and they also sold mouse.com and keyboard.com

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The Google Wave Year 2009 In Review

December 22nd, 2009

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This year in review done through Google Wave. Whirled Interactive, have smartly put together this video using Google Wave that puts this years news and social media news into a wave review.

From the inauguration of President Obama to the commotion caused by the balloon boy, this video covers all aspects of 2009 in the news.
Watch it below:

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Dell’s Twitter Account Earns Them $6.5 Million In Sales

December 9th, 2009

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Dell is a company that is highly involved with advertising their products through Social Media and yesterday they released new figures for how their performing through Twitter.

Dell has announced that they have now generated $6.5 million in revenue from their Twitter anccount where they have 1.5 million follows. Their twitter account is @DellOutlet. In total over all social accounts Dell have over 3 million follows.

Dell generated more than $60 Billion in revenue last year. Their Twitter account only a small percentage of that but yet shows that social advertising is turning success for some.

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