Via TechCrunch Uk.

http://uk.techcrunch.com/2007/11/22/rumour-news-corp-to-buy-linkedin/

   Quote: “”LinkedIn is also on an upward growth path which makes it a good acquisition target. It has more than 16 million registered users globally, spanning 150 industries in more than 400 economic regions and in the last year it experienced 189% growth.”"

Rupert Murdoch’s conglomerate seems to buy trajectory and 6-10 year growth projections as opposed to intrinsic value.  I don’t think these folks are going to be in the market for buckets of domain names until the web/tech market burns down (again) and the only thing left standing are one or two search utilities and domain names.  It will be a while till I dream of Rupert.