This is part 1 of a full story I will be posting in the coming days but I thought I would share one important aspect of the story. How to avoid a vital mistake when attempting to purchase a domain name that is already owned by somebody. Often times when you are interested in a [...]

The website EduBlogs.org has purchased the domain name EduBlogs.com for $18,000 at Sedo.com. EduBlogs.org states "Since 2005, Edublogs has been hosting blogs and providing custom blogging platforms to individual teachers, school districts and hundreds of thousands of students. We’ve grown to become the largest, most trusted, best supported and widely used way for teachers and [...]

The social conference directory Lanyrd has purchased the domain name Lanyard.com at Sedo.com for $18.000 USD. According to TechCrunch.com, Lanyrd received $1.4 Million in seed funding in September 2011, so to me it’s not overly shocking that they would purchase the proper spelling to the brand name as a domain name. The downside, Lanyard is [...]