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After singing into AOL IM, I got the following message from them:

After trying to chat with the movie bot for a bit I realized that it
was not a human… hehe, no I meant I realized that that it is only
targeting US users. Other than that it’s pretty much a standard bot, I
just found it very interesting that AOL would start using those.

While one person wants to get into the Guinness Book of World Records by selling TheRecordBreakingDomain.com, someone else has aready been able to sell his domain: “fish.com” sells for $1 Million.

As Peter writes at ClickToHit, this is only the start of things to come.

Just after we recently read about Google’s classified site, Google Base (hey, btw base.google.com now points to a login page, however it does not work for me), eBay Canada just sent me a message unveiling their free online classifieds service Kijiji.
According to the “About Us” page “Kijiji is a startup company created within eBay by a small team of
entrepreneurial employees.” [...] The word « Kijiji » means « village » in Swahili.

Interesting move by eBay – Since I doubt that they created this in the
last couple of weeks, I would imagine that they were already planning
this – as a matter of fact the site has been live for a while already.
It apparently was launched some time back in March of this year
according to this AuctionBytes article. Businessweek says it was launched on February 28th.

The domain name has originally been registered in February of 2000.

The system is currently offered for the following countries: Canada,
Spain, Germany, England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, South Africa,
Australia, New Zealand, France, Austria, Switzerland, Poland,
Netherlands, Italy, Turkey, China, Japan and Tawain.

InformationWeek > Digital Evidence > Murder Suspect’s Google Searches Spotlighted In Trial > November 11, 2005

A case were the prosecutor seems to have used cached searches on a suspect’s computer.

While in North America and Europe more and more people are starting to
realize that investing in domains is a fulltime job that yield quite
lucrative returns, Andrew Straw describes how domains are ‘a fun outlet’:
Scoop: Internet Domains a Fun Outlet

Croatian Music

Musicians and Dancers from Ghana

Steel drums in the Oakville Town Hall

Multicultural Festival in Oakville

It’s cold, but the sky looks very nice this morning.