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Farmers Bureau Sold Domains for $8.5 million, Including fb.com to FaceBook

January 11th, 2011 Comments off

While Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of FaceBook had revealed on November 15th, 2010 that his company had purchased FB.com from the American Farm Bureau Federation, he did not reveal the purchase price. However the Bureau revealed today on their annual meeting that the organization earned $8.5 million USD by selling a couple of domain names. According to the report, they are is barred from identifying the buyer. The Federation now uses fb.org as its Internet address “but may own four dozen domain names related to farming“.

[via Reuters]

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AOL to add Vanity Email under Domains as Love.com, Wow.com and Games.com

November 15th, 2010 Comments off

CNET has learned details on a limited beta release of AOL’s mail update, called “Project Phoenix” which will update AOL’s email interface. The new system, expected to be available to all users some time in 2011, will also offer users a number of choices from different domains instead of the dreaded AOL.com domain: ygm.com (an abbreviation of its classic “you’ve got mail”), love.com, wow.com, and games.com. AOL said in the announcement that mail accounts for 45 percent of its page views. Facebook is said to announce a new email service today, as reported by TechCrunch, going hand in hand with their purchase of fb.com.

[via Gizmodo, CNET]

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