Here are a few quick updates on stories posted here on Fusible in the last month.
Gamegos, buyer of $500,000 domain Gamesforgirls.com– Gamegos, which I revealed last month as the buyer of the top selling domain name in 2011 so far to date, finally has a landing page online for its prized domain. Well, sort of. The one-page website says nothing more than, “Games for Girls -gamesforgirls.com”. Garry Chernoff who sold the name, also had the top publicly reported domain sale for Feb. 28, 2011 – Sun. March 6, 2011, according to DN Journal, with the sale of doorhardware.com for $85,000. While it may be old news to you, what you might not know is that Garry’s company NetIncome Ventures purchased doorhardware.com for a mere $15,655 back in 2008 via NameJet.
Zynga breaking stories– As a blogger, I like to look for breaking stories, and Zynga has been a source of many breaking stories here on Fusible. My story on Zynga filing for a trademark on the word “ville” in the European Union got lots of reaction online with several major news sites and technology blogs picking up the story – ranging from CNET to Wired and TechDirt to Games.com. Hundreds of people have retweeted the story on Twitter and “Liked” it on Facebook.
The latest updates on New Jersey Internet Gambling Bill– Though Governor Chris Christie, vetoed what could’ve made New Jersey the first U.S. state to make online gambling legal, there’s still hope. “Sponsors of the legislation are talking about massaging the language to make it more acceptable to the governor rather than circling the wagons for an override vote, and everyone seems to think the issue is headed to New Jersey voters in the fall,” writes Larry Josephson for Covers.com.
Frank Schilling’s NAMedia updates its social networking experiment, again– I’ve been reporting on Frank Schilling’s social media experiment for months now. The web app has changed names one time already from note.com to chatr.com. Now this week, the website has changed names again – this time from chatr.com to postboard.com.
Mike Berkens’ Worldwide Media sells VisitBerlin.com for $230,000, sitting on a gold mine– As reported in February, domain investor and blogger Mike Berkens has sold $725,300 worth of domain names recently. And those are just the sales that don’t fall under an NDA (non-disclosure agreement). But his portfolio could be worth a whole lot more. Earlier this month Mike wrote a story about Sony’s announcement of Move.me, it’s Move development platform. But as he noted, Sony doesn’t own the domain, he does. Move.me was acquired for just $4,200 during Sedo’s November .ME auction which netted over $400,000 in sales.