Insure.com sells for $16Million:

Once again, it seems, the .com sales are getting their hold with rise in their values. Insurance broker Insure.com has sold its name and Web site for a mind blowing $16 million. Its reported the insurance company’s name and URL was sold for 10 times more than it was bought.

According to this report, the domain name was purchased by marketing firm QuinStreet, which also shelled out $18 million for Internet.com’s tech trade business in August. QuinStreet helps businesses target their customer audiences and generate sales leads.

Other significant domain sales for this year are:
Candy.com sold for $3 million,
Toys.com sold for $5.1 million,
Fly.com sold for $1.8 million
Ad.com sold for $1.4 million.

Another Milestone for Twitter. It has announced a partnership with Bharti Airtel, India's largest telecom company.

This enables the Airtel customers not to depend on hardwired Internet connections for their tweets. They now have an easy option of texting. The fees that's going to be waived for this service is still not fixed, but Biz says Airtel is not going charge any added fees.

Biz Stone explained on the Twitter Blog, "Our partnership with Bharti Airtel, the largest mobile operator in India, means a huge population of people can now send tweets at standard rates and receive tweets for free. Bharti Airtel is offering people in every city, every village, every remote taluk and even the smallest panchayat the opportunity to connect to Twitter and enjoy the open exchange of information with no added fees."

This certainly cheers the Twitter fans all over the world