A domain name is an identification label that defines a realm of administrative autonomy, authority, or control in the Internet, based on the Domain Name System (DNS).

But there is huge money in the Domain name registration field and as we talk, thousands and millions of domains are registered every day. Let’s find out the most expensive domain names of all times.

The domain name insure.com, the domain name was sold in 2009 for a whooping transaction price of 16 million U.S. dollars. A company called QuintStreet bought the domain auction by bidding the highest price, more than sex.com. The site now offers life insurance, auto insurance and health insurance and other insurance policies sold.

sex.com ranked second in the list, the domain name was sold in 2006, and the traded price was about 14 million U.S. dollars. This domain was brought by the well-known dating site match.com founder Gary Kremen in 1994. The domain auction in 2006, were the highest price at that time in the history. porn.com ranked fourth in 2007 was sold for about 950 million U.S. dollars. Ranked ninth is casino.com, which was sold in 2003 for about 5.5 million U.S. dollars…

So, here is a list of ‘Top ten most expensive domain names of all times’ which was auctioned and sold for the highest bid:

- Porn.com, Sold for 950 million US dollars – Pornography Site;

- Beer.com, Sold for 700 million US dollars – Entertainment website;

- Business.com, Sold for 750 million US dollars – Business, Financial news;

- Diamonds.com, Sold for 750 million US dollars – Jewelry;

- AsSeenOnTv.com, Sold for 500 million US dollars – Ecommerce;

- Insure.com, Price 16million US dollars – Insurance website, sells insurance;

- Sex.com, Sold for 14million US dollars;

- Fund.com, Sold for 10 million US dollars – Financial Website;

- Casino.com, Sold for 5.5 million US dollars – Online Casino Games;

- Toyes.com, Sold for 510 million US dollars – Toy sales;

Well, looks like all the best and most expensive domains are sold. Do you have a unique domain name? Share them with your comments below!

According to media reports, Apple Tablet – iPad will be available for order from today 9:30 pm (Pacific time for the March 12 5:30 am). Interested users can start ordering online on the Apple’s Official Website.

iPad comes packed with a PA.Semi processor, 9.7 inches LCD touch screen, a total of 16GB, 32GB, 64GB SSD in three versions to choose from, there are WiFi and 3G networks. Starting price of 499 U.S. dollars.

We also hear that, within 2 hours Apple has received about 51,000 orders were already placed for the Apple iPad. To book your iPad, visit the Official Apple Site.

According to 9 to 5 Mac, the new MacBook Pro could be announced tomorrow or latest by Tuesday.

Readers of MacRumors.com spotted Geekbench benchmark results for what appears to be a MacBook Pro featuring a 2.66GHz Core i7 M620, a high-end dual core processor featuring Intel’s Hyperthreading and Turbo Boost technologies.

The new MacBook Pro is equipped with Intel Core i5, the top models 15 and 17 “embark on their i7 Core or i5 Core chips.

Facebook is preparing to send out an update for the entire user base to give permission to share their geographical locations. According to several sources, the popular social network Facebook has been working on this new additional feature from about a year ago but is being very cautious about implementing it. Facebook does not want the new feature to cause any technical problems to the targeted Ads function.

We also hear that this feature will be available from April on Facebook as it’s rumored in the f8 conference (which happens every year for developers). The meet also hosts an API for third parties, engaging applications to share this information.
So far the company has remained silent and one of its spokesmen Meredith Chin said, the company is still not ready to give information regarding this new service because they are still testing and adapting things.

It is clear that the service still wants to attract more users than losing the existing ones. A few weeks ago, Facebook reached 400 million users mark and also became the second most visited site in the U.S., after Google.

What is GEO-Tagging\Targetting? Here is a funny image from XKCD.

Meanwhile, rival Twitter in December bought Mixer Labs, a company that will support you to Geotag the tweets. The CEO of Twitter, Evan Williams, said at the time that the new acquisition of the company will allow users show their Twitter followers from where they are writing their tweets.

Microsoft officials didn’t disclose any of the Windows 7 technical documents to the public, however the technical documents of the next generation of Windows Client and Server Operating Systems is being developed secretly.

We got on hands Microsoft’s technical documentation schematics (plan) and guess what we found? Microsoft is secretly planning on putting together the technical documentation for Windows 8. However, one thing to notice is that these were not released with Windows 7. This seems to be a marketing strategy that Microsoft is going to use to market its future product – Windows 8.

The Microsoft server and the development kit service is in charge of Robert Muglia, responsible for the Microsoft communication protocol project (MCPP), although the third party developer may through gain MCPP technology documents in order to realize with Microsoft’s product cooperation.

Here is a sneak peek into the technical documentation by Microsoft of the lifecycle support plan for Microsoft products.

Also, we hear that approximately 500 Microsoft employees are devoting in develop the MCPP technology documents, in view of the fact that MCPP and European Work team server agreement plan (European Work Group Server Protocol Program).

These approximately 232 product team development engineers and the project management personnel are carrying on the development and the examination positively for this documents’ technical content, including to TDI resolution periodic review, as well as for the next generation Windows client side, server development new content of Windows 8.

Twitter wants to solve the SPAM problem and phishing attacks that have been rocking the twitter-verse in the recent months.

Accordingly, it has an announcement on its official blog – Twitter, has introduced a new feature to encounter malicious junk messages or links. To end these attacks, the new service that will try to “detect, intercept and prevent the spread of spam or phishing links. This is a new protection service from Twitter which works by scanning all links on the users’ account.

There’s a short explanation on the twitter blog about this new tool.. However, they haven’t mentioned details of the new spam inceptor service..

Sharing photos on social media is a common thing nowadays. But the only disadvantage of sharing photos on social media is easy access to download the photos from the sites unlike sharing via email or on photo sharing sites. Here is a new tool called PhotoGrabber that can be used to download bulk photos from Facebook..

The usage of this software is very simple and anyone can use it. The first thing to do is to download the tool PhotoGrabber. The application is available for Windows and Mac OS X in a  .Zip format. After unzipping the folder, we must click to start and give permission to enter Facebook, and then provide the Facebook login information.

Thereafter PhotoGrabber offers a listing of all our contacts including ourselves to choose the pictures that we want to download. Then just choose the folder where you will be the tool we want to save the images and wait for them to download all. Depending on the connection and the number of snapshots take more or less.

You can repeat the process with photographs of friends or anyone. Share your comments below!

Google Chrome 4 has two extensions very useful for all those social media addicts who start their day by accessing Orkut or Facebook like me.

First is the Orkut Chrome Extension. It shows, all the new scraps, friend requests, group messages, and other types of alerts.

Second is the Facebook extension for Google Chrome. As before, it presents a small window of the browser and shows new messages from the social network.

Although,, in order for both the applications to work, you would need to login with your username and password for the sites and authenticate… Once that is done, the messages begin to appear in real time. This new chrome extension is worth the “effort” for three reasons:

-> The two extensions do not conflict with the performance of the browser,

-> Don’t have to signin to the websites in order to check updates all the time.

-> And finally, display updates in real-time.

If you are interested and want to try the new chrome extensions, you can download the Facebook Extension and Orkut extension from here. Do you use or know any other chrome extensions? share your comments below!

Ever wondered how 2 comic charecters would look if morphed together? Here is a pic of Shrek + Avatar morphed together and we call it the SHREVATAR.

A combined hero for fans of Shrek and Avatar. Dowload the Shrevatar wallpaper (1920×1200)

Image credit – Moinid

According to foreign media reports, an independent research firm NSS Labs recently released reports showing that Microsoft’s IE 8 browser is the securest and the only browser with highest performance. The study also shows that the interception of social engineered malicious software, in 2010 Quarter1.

Malware interception chart:

1. IE8 intercepted 85% of the social engineering malicious software,
2. Firefox 3 interception rate of 29%,
3. Apple Safari interception rate of 29%,
4. Google Chrome 2 interception rate of 17%, while the
5. Opera 10’s interception rate is less than 1%.

The version of test browser used by NSS labs are:

> IE 8.0.7600.16385,
> Firefox 3.5.7,
> Safari 4.0.4,
> Chrome 4.0.249.78,
> Opera 10.1

Microsoft IE project manager James Pratt and Senior director and project management Ryan Gavin have said that Microsoft has been focusing on the development of browser security features.

Gavin pointed out that Internet users are more concerned about identity theft issues and privacy protection issues. People’s private information-sharing approach will be different, but a person on the identity theft has always been opposed. Microsoft’s operating system and browser client security can be protected.

Pratt said that social engineered malicious software are huge and all around the web and its harmful consequences are growing. Internet users will be without the knowledge of accessing dangerous sites. Microsoft also promoted the SmartScreen filtering system through to get the network data. For example, a phishing attack on Hotmail accounts may be detected hundreds of millions of times.