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PopCapSF.com: What’s in store for PopCap’s newest domain registrations?

The $1 billion acquisition talk that last week spread across the web has seemed to have died down.  No more clues have been dropped as to who the mystery buyer will be, but TechCrunch’s sources point to Electronic Arts.   No real interesting news this week on PopCap except for MumboJumbo filing new motions in court to ensure it […]

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Bad news for domain sleuths, Go Daddy finally fixes WHOIS Privacy leaks in Account Retrieval System

Go Daddy has finally fixed a huge privacy leak issue that was first reported and publicized by Abdu Tarabichi back in March: revealing partial e-mail addresses of domain owners.  The flaw gave anyone the ability to see a partial e-mail address of a registrant, even if the registrant had used Go Daddy’s privacy service, Domains by Proxy, Inc. For people to […]

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Is a category defining name like ‘Microblogging’ so much better than a catchy name like Twitter?

Perhaps the most well known of all microblogging services is Twitter. If you ask someone, “What is Twitter?”, they know what it is.  But if you ask someone if they know about “microblogging”, you might get a puzzled look in response. Yesterday, Sedo broker Ryan Colby announced on his Twitter page that the domain name microblogging.com […]

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Updates on Top 5 Fusible stories, May

In May 2011, the United States Navy SEALs drew a lot of news coverage on the web following the killing of Osama bin Laden.  But the SEALs weren’t the only story on Fusible that attracted readers.   Zynga hinted at plans of developing the next top iPhone game with the registration of hangmanwithfriends.com, the Navy won the […]

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Fusible domain blog gets mentioned in TechCrunch; other major news sites and technology blogs

Early this morning, I broke a story about the Beta launch of Zynga’s Rewardville after I noticed that the web address Rewardville.com was resolving to an actual web site and not to a GoDaddy Parked page.  This followed a week of speculation of what Zynga might have planned for the domain name.  Just over a […]