News and rumors with the help of domains
The absolute biggest story of 2011 here on Fusible was the discovery of Microsoft's new social network, which is now officially called So.cl (pronounced "social"). The article racked up some nice social media statistics for a smaller tech news blog: over 600 tweets, nearly 500 Facebook Likes, … [Read more...]
Activision won rights to the domain ModernWarfare3.com in early September, bringing a saga that dragged on for months to a close. My coverage of the whole affair from beginning to end drew thousands of thousands of page views, along with mentions from nearly every major video gaming news site … [Read more...]
There are certain companies that attract more readers than others and Apple Inc. is one of them. While I've written plenty of articles about Apple, this year's top Apple story and number three in the Top 10 Fusible stories of 2011, is the story of Apple winning the domain dispute over … [Read more...]
Until today, I'd only written two stories focused on .XXX domains, one in 2011 and one in 2012. The most recent story I wrote was published early New Year's Day and discussed the first .XXX dispute filed over the domain markafoni.xxx. Though the internet has been flooded with details … [Read more...]
The biggest domain sale of 2011, with a price tag of $2.6 million, was social.com. The domain sold in June and was co-brokered by Marksmen's Cyntia King and Moniker.com's John Mauriello. As to who purchased the domain name remained a mystery, that is until I broke the story that the buyer … [Read more...]
When Amazon began slashing prices on its refurbished Kindle 3 models, tech sites began speculating that Amazon would release a new Kindle. That's when I started paying more attention to Kindle related domain names, as I quickly found out readers eat this type of news up. My first big story days … [Read more...]
More people have been warming to Twitter over the past year, but when they go to sign up for an account, they often find the Twitter username they want (much like a domain name) is already taken. The number seven story in this year's Top 10 is How to get a Twitter username, that's already … [Read more...]
Google has been the source of many stories reported here that have drawn a lot of attention by other tech blogs and news sites, from its purchase of YouTube.xxx to going after typosquatters, to its acquisition of the domain names schemer.com and dartlanguage.com, to Photovine- the list … [Read more...]
Number 9 in this year's Top 10 stories is the story of the upcoming James Bond film Skyfall, which will land in theaters in November 2012. On October 3, more than a dozen domain names having to do with Skyfall were registered. Though privately registered initially using DNStination … [Read more...]
Several of this year's Top 10 stories here on Fusible have to do with video gaming. So it's no surprise that the story of Tom Clancy's Rainbow 6 Patriots is number ten on the list. After noticing that Ubisoft registered eight different domain names on October 27, like … [Read more...]
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