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OMG.com Domain Name for $80,000 — Yahoo Buys

OMG.com Domain Name for $80,000 — Yahoo Buys

Yahoo buys popular texting term.

YahooYahoo (YHOO) has purchased the domain name OMG.com for $80,000.

Reglike noted the sale the prior week on its weekly Sedo sales wrap, but we didn’t know the buyer at the time.

OMG.com, which commonly stands for “Oh My God” in shorthand and texting, does not right now resolve to a web site. As readers point out in the comments below, Yahoo has a popular celebrity gossip web site at omg.yahoo.com.

Yahoo is not only a domain buyer, but it also sells some of the domain names it doesn’t need. In June it sold the domain name Contests.com for $380,000 at a domain name auction in Washington, D.C. It appears the domain was purchased when Yahoo bought Broadcast.com, which owned the domain name. National A-1 Advertising bought the domain name at the auction.

This stretch the domain LMK.com, which stands for “Let Me Know” in shorthand, sold for $58,500. It’s unclear who the buyer is, as the domain hasn’t fully finished transferring.

Also on the wire

Other reporting from the domain desk.

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