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Microsoft acquires socl.com from same broker as social.com

Could Microsoft be planning to launch its own social networking service to compete with Facebook and the new Google Plus? What’s definitely not speculation is that Microsoft has acquired the four-letter domain name socl.com.  Today, the Whois record revealed Microsoft Corporation as the new owner. On July 2, I wrote about Marksmen the IP and brand protection company, who made […]

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Social.com for $2.6 million: What about the domain Social.org for only $950?

The word on the street is that the domain name social.com has sold for $2.6 million according to Ron Jackson of DNJournal.  News of the sale created a flurry of interest online, with TechCrunch even publishing an article that included links to domain industry blogs that had covered the social.com auction (including this very blog). While […]

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Electronic Arts adds Battlefield.net to its arsenal of killer domains as it prepares to battle Modern Warfare 3

Electronic Arts (EA) already owns and operates Battlefield.com, a domain name it acquired in 2007 after using Marksmen, a service used by larger companies that describes itself as the go-to-firm for corporations who want to keep their identity and costs on the down low. EA took official ownership of the domain Battlefield.com in late July of 2007 according to […]

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Confirmed: Microsoft Corporation now owns the domain Kinect.com

When Microsoft launched its now-popular Kinect, the controller-free add-on for the Xbox in early November, it didn’t own the domain name Kinect.com.  Kinect.com has been registered since the nineties and the domain name re-directed to CAHG.com, a company that helped others grow their leadership brands.  Earlier this week, back on Dec. 30th, Andrew Allemann of […]