With Twitter handle in hand, MSNBC buys matching BreakingNews.com domain name.

File this under breaking news: the MSNBC Digital Network has purchased the domain name BreakingNews.com.

What makes this interesting is that the purchase seems to have originated from MSNBC’s use of the @breakingnews twitter handle, which has over 1.5 million followers.

The acquisition is a big win for PV Media Group, which launched the BreakingNews web site a little over a year ago. I interviewed BreakingNews.com CEO James McDonald when the site launched, and it was clear that McDonald understood the value of a great domain name:

“Our brand will be built anytime there is breaking news anywhere,” McDonald said at the time.

BreakingNews.com is obviously a great domain name for MSNBC. But I also find this acquisition unique from a Twitter perspective. Most of the time people have a domain and try to get the Twitter handle to match it; this time the company had the twitter handle and wanted the matching domain name.

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Leisure.com sold for the price of a luxury vacation.

Last week I reported about a pending sale of Live Current Media’s Leisure.com domain name. Today we have confirmation from Sedo that it brokered the sale of the domain name for $150,000. Perhaps next week we’ll find out what Live Current sold Indonesia.com for.

With a holiday week, Sedo’s weekly sales list wasn’t as robust as usual. But it still includes some other notable sales including Find.net at $25,000. It also sold two .ar domain names (Argentina): Booking.com.ar for 14,500 EUR and Bookings.com.ar for 10,500 EUR.

Here are other notable sales for the week:

.COM
betin.com 10,000 EUR
rbu.com 8,000 USD
taxspecialists.com 7,000 USD
festivales.com 5,600 EUR
clickcasino.com 3,600 USD
books-on.com 3,500 USD
privatejetbroker.com 3,500 USD

ccTLDs and Other
security.eu 12,010 EUR
sms.to 6,700 EUR
bestdeal.de 5,500 EUR
aubergesdejeunesse.fr 5,000 EUR
poolnews.de 4,950 EUR
thringen-online.de 4,760 EUR
singles.us 3,000 USD
spieleindex.de 3,000 EUR
Remix.org 4,200 USD

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