The highest bid for the expired domain a1.com at snapnames was US$260,250. As it turns out, this was the highest price paid for an expired domain at auction. The highest bidder appears to be based in the Cayman Islands and this was a legitimate bid which went through to completion.
According to the weekly domain sales report at dnjournal, myblog.com was sold for US$400,000 in s private transaction.
Bogota.com sold for US$159,500 via a snapnames.com auction last week according to dnjournal. Bogota is the capital and largest city of Colombia. The new owner appears to be the korean company VerticalAxis.
Inetinteractive, the network of interactive sites which included some very hot properties like webhostingtalk and hotscripts, has been sold to a private equity group Stoddard Hill Capital. The price of the sale was not disclosed. More details can be found here.
Some interesting details on the chip that will power the new xbox360. “IBM’s power-based PC chip includes three cores, each with two simultaneous threads and clocking speeds greater than 3 GHz” More details can be found here.
Not sure of the accuacy of this list, but this site contains a list of the 100 oldest domain names.
AskJeeves.com may drop the jeeves butler image, and the askjeeves.com domain in favour of the shorter ask.com domain and image. This would be a very smart move in my personal opinion. Further details can be found here.
Google updated their pagerank a couple of days ago, and it was interesting to see that that msn had a google pagerank of 2.
Bskyb has agreed to buy broadband internet provider Easynet for 211 million pounds. BSkyB is 37% owned by Newscorp. Full details can be found here.
Whenever I do a search on any movie on the internet, it more often than not leads me to a result from imdb.com, the world’s largest “internet movie database”. Having launched in October 1990, they are now celebrating their 15th birthday. Details can be found here.