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"Fake news" is a term that has become extremely popular over the last few months, thanks in no small part to President Trump. Fake news has become a catch-all phrase for the President's distrust of many mainstream media outlets, and has been mentioned by the President in numerous tweets and live TV appearances.

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President Trump has popularised the term "fake news"
As you might expect, the exact match domain name FakeNews.com is getting a lot of attention. When a phrase becomes this popular, the value of the exact match domain typically increases. This is exactly what has happened here with FakeNews.com.

After receiving many enquiries, the owner of the domain FakeNews.com, George Bacon, employed the services of a domain broker, Dan Sanchez (@DanSanchez) of NameAlpha, to help sell this domain that was acquired for $250 twelve years ago.

Yesterday, Dan was featured on ABC 10 in California, where he spoke about the domain name in a short interview with Robert Santos of 10News, which is included in full below.

Dan has revealed that there are "hundreds" of offers on the table for FakeNews.com. On a daily basis, between three and twenty requests via the FakeNews.com website.

Dan also revealed that just a couple of days ago an offer of $75,000 was received, with more than ten six-figure offers. With anywhere between four hundred and a thousand views per day, FakeNews.com is certainly attracting interest.

According to Dan, it's likely that the domain will sell within the next couple of months.

Here is ABC 10's report in full.

 
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Very Laughable. BS creator software. S o r o s is financing it. Hardcoding in his skewed "facts" ha.. lol. The way he sees them and promoting his own propaganda and personal agenda.
Wish it was funny.
 
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Wish it was funny.

Context! I am laughing in a sarcastic way. Sad really. It's part of the entire messed up situation that the skewed media is vomiting out. Nothing new really.
 
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Fake news is big business, as a paid service

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/17/fake_news_as_a_service/

Especially for pump-and-dump schemes in stocks and crypto

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Unsurprisingly, media organisations are a frequent target for purveyors of fake news. Digital Shadows analysed the top 40 global news websites and checked over 85,000 possible variations on their domain. In doing so, it discovered some 2,858 live spoof domains.

Simply by altering characters on a domain (e.g. a “m” may have changed to an “rn”) and by using cloning services it is possible to create a convincing fake of a legitimate news site. Miscreants then link to and otherwise promote fake stories at these bogus sites for their own nefarious ends.
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A conservative foundation will buy it. They widely believe--with some justification--that the media leans leans left. They will make the purchase money in a few days should they launch a fundrasier
 
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A conservative foundation will buy it. They widely believe--with some justification--that the media leans leans left. They will make the purchase money in a few days should they launch a fundrasier
Heritage.org? Ya they can do a lot with fundraisers.
 
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Why didn’t the broker sell the name back 9 months ago?
 
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There's no such thing as bad press!
 
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The name "sold" almost immediately after the press aired the segment. I recalled the name after the buyer failed to fund the Escrow on time, contingencies can kill a deal just as quickly as it appears. No hard feelings at all.

However the name remains relevant, comparing FakeNews.com any other domain asset is shortsighted, and it derives from only attaching one market contact point of relevance. It's the main reason why domainers sell so cheap. Each name is entirely unique and it's worth waiting 12-18 months to find the right buyer that can act after the purchase. I am considering an auction given the number of legitimate offers received, ironically over 2,000 "fake" offers ranging from toenails as payment, to a vintage guitar collection were among the most creative.
 
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vintage guitar collection were among the most creative.

Sorry to hear the original buyer flaked out. Have you contacted CNN? They might be interested just to park it since they seem to have been branded with that name.

The correct guitar collection might have been more liquid! A couple of 59’ Les Pauls and the buyer should have been more than happy.

Good luck with the sale!
 
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The EU is spending €1m on fake news, bu the domain they use probably cost under €10.00

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...t-gets-1m-a-year-to-counter-russian-fake-news

The taskforce is drawing up plans on how to spend the unprecedented cash injection, with the aim of scaling up the EU monitoring of Russian media and undertaking data analysis to provide more detailed understanding of the scale of misinformation. Beyond its core staff in Brussels, the unit draws on volunteers and experts to monitor Russian media for the site the EU vs disinformation.
 
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And here's more about news-as-a-service - celebs quietly getting paid to post links to "news"

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2...te-social-media-facebook-mic-slate-refinery29
Top influencers can make $75,000 for a product post on Instagram and a staggering $185,000-plus for a plug on YouTube, according to a report in the New York Times.

It is unclear how much news websites pay for links to their articles.

Ken Wohl, a Los Angeles-based consultant in audience development strategy for media companies, said the FTC should discuss the problem of news sites paying for celebrities to promote content.
 
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