Bankruptcy.net sold this week for a solid £33,932 ($56,250 USD)– a price some would have to go bankrupt to afford. At auction, the .com version of the name would likely sell for at least ten times the aforementioned amount. Bankruptcy law is a very profitable and in-demand niche, after all. …
October, 2009
August, 2009
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24 August
Microsoft Working with PHP
Microsoft, which has long offered proprietary alternatives to open source web platforms and scripting languages, is now offering a toolkit that will make it easier for PHP developers to utilize it’s .NET data services. PHP, which stands for PHP Hyptertext Processor and is sponsored by the commercial organization, Zend Technologies. …
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13 August
Report: average .net auction price exceeds .com
A popular domain auction site recently released a report detailing statistics about more than 9,000 auctions in the last three months. Surprisingly, the average sale price for a .net domain came out to $1,775 USD, a wee bit higher than the average .com value of $1,768. This is a sharp …
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5 August
Jesus.net sells for £73,442
Not only can Jesus turn water into wine, but he can sell domains, too. Jesus.net sold a few hours ago for a whopping £73,442 ($124,337 USD). There seems to be quite a few religious domains selling at auction lately. Last month, Rosary.com sold for £48,388 and Biblical.com netted £10,000. The …
July, 2009
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20 July
Woman changes name to Princess-Rainbow.com
A twenty-four-year-old woman in Manchester, formerly known as Claire Forshaw, has officially changed her name to Princess-Rainbow.com. She had apparently been contemplating such a move for quite some time, but her boyfriend dissuaded her, arguing that it would cost a lot of money. She finally investigated and found that she …
June, 2009
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4 June
183 Million Domains Now Registered
There are now 183 million domains registered on the web, according to The Domain Name Industry Brief (PDF), a quarterly report authored by Versign. Last quarter, domain registrations rose 3%. So far this year, an average of 2.4 million new .com and .net registrations are made each month. These two …