AOL turns $400 million into less than half that!

Posted by DomainGang on April 29, 2010, at 2:19 am

How do you turn $400 million into half as much? Simple: you run America Online corporation. The much-hated mass-mailer of floppies and CD’s in the 90’s bought instant messenger service ICQ.com in 1996 for a whopping $400 million dollars. Around the same time Microsoft spent another $500 million to buy Hotmail.com but at least they […]

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Latino Army Of Light to fight AOL’s army of darkness

Posted by DomainGang on April 22, 2010, at 9:20 am

In what appears to be a case of reverse domain hijacking, New York based society ‘Latino Army Of Light‘ is fighting for its virtual survival against a giant: AOL – America Online. According to the LatinoAoL.com web site: The LATINO ARMY OF LIGHT is a fraternal order composed of members of Latin descent. The order […]

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