SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook will pay $1 billion in cash and stock for Instagram, a 2-year-old photo-sharing application developer, in its largest-ever acquisition just months before the No. 1 social media website is expected to go public. The price was stunning for an apps-maker without any significant revenue, even when measured by the lofty [...]
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(Directions Magazine) – eReal Estate Holdings, LLC, owner and operator of Condo.com, Houses.com, and Property.com – three leading online real estate portals, today announced the acquisition of the category domain name Location.com. eReal Estate Holdings, LLC, owner and operator of Condo.com, Houses.com, and Property.com – three leading online real estate portals, today announced the acquisition [...]
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(VatorNews)- Christmas has come early for potheads, it seems, as an announcement broke Tuesday that WeedMaps Media bought the domain name Marijuana.com, to place all things internet and marijuana under one convenient banner. “The URL was purchased for $4.2M under terms I’m not able to disclose,” said WeedMaps CEO Justin Hartfield to VatorNews.”It was an [...]
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Michael H. Berkens reported the sale of Meet.Me for $450,000 on TheDomains.com which set a world record price for .ME domains. Michael H. Berkens, Rick Schwartz and Ammar Kubba bought Meet.Me domain name three years ago at TRAFFIC auction for $5,890. Congratulations to Michael H. Berkens, Rick Schwartz, Ammar Kubba and buyer!
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(Daily Mail) – The web address gay.xxx has been sold to a porn production company for half a million dollars. The domain name is the most expensive to be sold with the controversial new porn-only .xxx extension. Although .xxx addresses are not yet being publicly sold, gay.xxx was one of a number of names being [...]
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TORONTO – Domain name provider Tucows Inc. announced Tuesday that it has purchased EPAG Domainservices of Germany for about US$2.5 million. The purchase, from voice and data communications firm QSC, included just over US$2.1 million to buy the shares of EPAG, along with settlement of a working capital adjustment of more than US$350,000. EPAG, based [...]
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Miami, FL (PRWEB) July 20, 2011 – Condo.com and Houses.com, two leading online residential real estate portals, today announced the acquisition of the category domain names: Property.com and Properties.com. Property.com is well-positioned to succeed as the Company’s third real estate portal, differentiated by the additional property types offered within the massive commercial real estate market. [...]
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(The Inquirer) – Google has registered the g.co domain name to use as its official URL shortcut. Google had been previously using the goo.gl domain name as its URL shortcut, however it seems that a three letter domain name was not short enough. Yesterday, Google announced that g.co will become the official URL shortcut used [...]
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Salesforce.com is the new owner of the data.com domain name. Domain Name Newswore cited a press release from domain name auctioneer Moniker stating that Salesforce.com purchased the domain name “for an amount that significantly exceeds the $1.5 million reserve.” According to the Business Insider there are three domains tied for 18th most expensive domain names [...]
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