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In this weeks domain sales chart at DnJournal, camp.com sold for US$150,000 and funnyads.com sold for US$100,000.

Google has reportedly bought the home which houses the garage they rented when it was initially started. Apparently homes in that area are worth around $1 to $1.3 million dollars, the price paid was not disclosed but I suspect it may have been considerably more than the average price. More info can be found here.

Well Google Pagerank updates are always a big event for webmasters and they usually follow a change in the number of backlinks to a site which happened some days ago. If the pagerank sticks, this site will have increased from a Pagerank 4 to a 5.

According to The New York Times, Google is building a new data center in Oregon, USA. Hopefully this will put an end to their indexing problem, which in my opinion Yahoo is dominating in terms of sheer size of pages indexed. More details can be found here.

According to a report by Comscore Media Metrix, there are now over 694 million internet users worldwide. More information can be found here. The top 15 countries are as follows.

1. United States 152 million

2. China 72 million

3. Japan 52 million

4. Germany 32 million

5. Britain 30 million

6. South Korea 24.6 million

7. France 23.9 million

8. Canada 19 million

9. Italy 16.8 million

10. India 16.7 million

11. Brazil 13.2 million

12. Spain 12.5 million

13. Netherlands 11 million

14. Russia 10.8 million

15. Australia 9.7 million

An interesting article on the setup of Bill Gates office can be found here. He has three monitors on his desk, two for email, and one for internet browsing.

Dell, the worlds largest PC maker has agreed to buy Alienware, known for their high end gaming machines. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, and it appears Alienware will continue to operate as an independent subsidiary of Dell. More details can be found here.

The highest reported domain sale for the year to date according to DnJournal was on.com which was sold by Moniker/Domain Systems for US$635,000.

According to dnjournal, the highest recorded domain name sale for the past week was NHS.com which was sold via moniker.com for US$151,300, quite a high price for a 3 letter .com domain. The domain currently appears to be just resolving to a parking page, which appears to be a common trend for some of the high value domain sales.

Google has agreed to censor its results in China via google.cn in exchange for better access to their market. China is a very big market, and it looks as though the quest for greater profits has won over. I guess google is first and foremost a business, so whilst I dont agree with their censorship, I can understand the reasons for their move. More details can be found here.