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Old 08-10-2009, 05:44 PM THREAD STARTER               #1 (permalink)
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Yahoo! Buys (steals) OMG.COM for $80k

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Old 08-10-2009, 07:03 PM   #2 (permalink)
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seems expensive for 80k!
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it is a very common acronym with huge social networking implications. yahoo has omg! Celebrity gossip, news, photos, babies, couples, hotties, and more - omg! on Yahoo! since 2008 according to the OMG - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia & OMG - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia!
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I think that's a really good and inexpensive buy for them.
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I to think this is a good buy on Yahoos part. I'm sure we'll see something big on this domain soon enough.
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a very nice buy, didn't they just sell contests.com for like $500k?
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a very nice buy, didn't they just sell contests.com for like $500k?
Correction. $380k.

Agreed that Yahoo! got it at a good price but in these times, who else would pay $80k for this domain so easily?
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This is probably THE most common used acronym, not on the internet probably but IRL. People often even spell out the acronym instead of saying the phrase and this is a trend that is increasing rather than decreasing.

IMO this domain can only get more popular, yahoo has got a great domain for an incredible price! If used as intended for celeb gossip I think it is the best use for it. How long till the magazine?
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I to think this is a good buy on Yahoos part. I'm sure we'll see something big on this domain soon enough.
This was a business purchase - nothing (directly) to do with omg being a popular acronym. Apparently they're going to spin their very popular OMG subdirectlry off as a brand of it's own. Similar to when CNN acquired "ireport" to give their user-submitted news section it's own domain.
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Pretty nice and cheap buy..
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OMG!!!!!!!!!!! what are they going to do with this DN?
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This is probably THE most common used acronym, not on the internet probably but IRL.
I think lol is used more and often imo/imho.
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omg is huge though and 80k is an amazing deal. Easily worth double that.
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OMG.. Imagine if you were bidding against yahoo and you never knew it... LOL

Nice score yahoo !
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Originally Posted by labrocca View Post
I think lol is used more and often imo/imho.

omg is huge though and 80k is an amazing deal. Easily worth double that.
who uses lol IRL (In Real Life)? You would never really pronounce that acronym outloud, where as O-M-G you can.
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That is what I meant in my post, sorry if I wasn't clear.
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It is interesting why Omnicom Media Group didn't want to buy it, maybe they didn't know it was selling...
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Originally Posted by cwinhall View Post
who uses lol IRL (In Real Life)? You would never really pronounce that acronym outloud, where as O-M-G you can.
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That is what I meant in my post, sorry if I wasn't clear.
Well...

It really bugs me but some are actually saying lol on accident when they thing something is funny, or on purpose, who knows, but it bugs me when someone does...
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Originally Posted by lzy View Post
Correction. $380k.

Agreed that Yahoo! got it at a good price but in these times, who else would pay $80k for this domain so easily?
These guys would have - OMG | Online Marketing Group

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They own 33,000 domains already.
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OMG!!!
hmmm.nice buy!

by the way, steal?
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