Yahoo recently successfully acquired flicker.com domain name

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Beijing time June 15 morning news, according to foreign media reports, Yahoo recently confirmed the acquisition of flicker.com domain name. According to Alexa rankings, Flickr is the world's 31st most visited site, Yahoo bought Flickr in 2005, but until now has successfully acquired Flickr intended to use the flicker.com domain name.

Flicker.com started selling domain names publicly a year ago. Log in to the site can be seen traffic statistics show that the site's annual independent visit to 3.6 million, of which 95% of the visitors because of misspelled flickr.com and wrong login flicker.com.

After discovering that the WHOIS record of the domain changed, the reporter contacted Yahoo, a company spokesman confirmed: "flicker.com domain name has been transferred to Yahoo name," but he declined to further disclose specific information. Earlier today, the domain name Wire reported that Yahoo had acquired the domain name in a settlement agreement with the lawsuit. Back in 2007, it was rumored that Yahoo had tried to acquire the domain name in 600,000 dollars, but was rejected by the domain owner.

Flicker.com still points to past login pages and is expected to change in the near future.

Flickr co-founder Katrina Fick (Caterina Fake) revealed: " We tried to acquire the flicker.com domain name, where the owner produced a beer called Flickr, who was not interested in selling the domain name, but later transferred the domain name to the former owner. So we can only use Flickr domain names, and many team members didn't like the name, but later Flickr became popular. "Fick has now resigned from Flickr to join the emerging enterprise hunch.