£560k for the letter S. The Internet-based cruise holiday company paid £560,000 for the letter S, they already have the domain www.cruise.co.uk but felt that the domain www.cruises.co.uk was worth over half a million pounds. They set a new British record for spending on a domain after they completed the purchase, the previous record was £150,000 last year for www.recycle.co.uk.

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Online shoppers will spend £15 billion during December on gifts and food, this takes the total for online sales in 2007 to £46 billion - a massive £16 billion increase on last year. So what are the reasons for the record spending online? Read the rest of this entry »

We have just launched the new FDC website. We are really proud of this site, not only does it look fantastic it is also full of some great features. FDC’s previous website had the facility to locate your closest stockist and it provided you with information on how many miles the store was from your home. This was a good and useful feature. With the new site we have taken this idea and run with it, well more like got it a jet plane and travelled at 600mph! Read the rest of this entry »