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Proof that Zynga has plans for Rewardville: Trademark application filed in Europe

Rumor over on Elliot’s Blog is that Zynga, the popular social game development company, purchased the domain name Rewardville.com, possibly for a rewards program that was announced back in late November in a Zynga  Press Release. Being a big fan of Zynga, I did a little digging on the name Rewardville.  While the domain name, […]

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Predictions on the next Facebook game title by Zynga

With Zynga’s latest Facebook game Cityville topping the charts as the most popular Facebook game in 2010, I thought I’d offer up a few predictions on Zynga’s next blockbuster game title in 2011.  With Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville numbering daily users in the millions, one can only guess what’s next for Zynga, like another game […]

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Zynga ready to break ground with its biggest social game yet: Cityville (domain purchased for $38K in June ’10)

On June 23, 2010, the domain name Cityville.com sold for $38,225 at Moniker.  I recently came across the domain when I wrote about Zynga last week and how the game company has been buying up and developing ville-domains like Farmville.com and Petville.com – but at the time of the story, Cityville.com was parked and the name registered to Rob Holmes […]

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Got ‘ville’ in the domain? Zynga might come calling for the name with cash

Farmville, Frontierville, Fishville, Yoville, Petville – are just a few of the popular games that Zynga has developed into some of the world’s most popular social games.  You’ve probably heard of Farmville on Facebook and other games, but just how popular are these games.  According to TechCrunch, just five weeks after launching Frontierville the game reached […]

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Facebook registers ‘Facebook Live Staging’ .com, .net, and .org domains

In late November, Facebook revised its long-standing terms with Zynga, and in doing so, it opened up more opportunities for game developers. Only a day after Zynga filed a document with the SEC outlining new terms in its agreement, Facebook registered a handful of domains around the term “Live Staging” like FacebookLiveStaging.com, hinting that some […]