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• Is Key Systems running the new Google Registrar?
  While the domain and tech industry is abuzz talking about how Google is launching their new own reta…
• Sedo Names Solomon Amoako Chief Sales Officer for the Boston office [Press Release]
  Domain Industry Veteran Brings Years of Experience to Further Strengthen and Lead Sedo’s North Ame…
• BREAKING ! Playboy Mansion Returns to DomainFest
  The exact location of the Stone Temple Pilots concert/party this evening at Domainfest has been shro…
• The Week in Domains (March 31st – April 6th, 2014)
  Topic Highlights this week: DomainFest New gTLDs April Fools Day Industry news: Tuesday, April 1st,…
• NamesCon Registration Prices go Up Tomorrorow
  What’s the perfect thing to do after celebrating Thanksgiving with your family? Get right back to…
• .DE Registry to add Redemption Grace Period (DENIC)
  As of December 3rd, 2013, DENIC, the operator of the .DE ccTLD will also introduce a Redemption Grac…
• Andee Hill forms EscrowHill.com backed by Gregg McNair
  Andee Hill, who recently left Escrow.com where she was Director of Business Development, has created…

• Inaugural Heritage Auctions Domain Event in New York City – Live Results
  We were will be live blogging the results of the inaugural Heritage Auctions Domain Event in New Yo…
• Buenos Aires Airport closure leaves many ICANN 48 attendees stranded
  As the 48th ICANN meeting is set to start in Buenos Aires, many of the attendees were stranded today…
• Demand Media to Spin Off Domain Registration Business into RightSide [Press Release]
  As already predicted by Andrew over at DNW: Demand Media Announces Key Executives and Name for Propo…

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• Four 6-Figure Transactions Totaling Over $1.1 Million Top This Week's Domain Sales Chart
  Someone mist have missed the summer doldrums memo! Four high end sales lit up the domain aftermarket…
• Webfair Virtual - The 1st Online Only Domain Conference Ready to Open Its Doors Thursday Morning
  In February we told you about plans Michael Marcovici of DomainIndex.com had to stage the first virt…
• 3rd Heritage Auctions Domain Names & Intellectual Property Auction Will Be Held Thursday
  As word of mainstream auction house Heritage Auctions's commitment to domain names has spread, the f…
• Sedo Plans Major Promotion of New gTLDs at Europe's Biggest Digital Marketing Conference
  Some new gTLDs have been criticized for a lack of promotion. Industry giant Sedo plans to turn up th…
• Love of Domains Explained: Mystery Revealed By "Smokey & The Bandit" Movie Fanatics!
  How many times have you tried to explain to friends & family exactly what it is you do and why you l…
• 6-Figure Chinese .Com Sale and a Powerful ccTLD Performance Light Up This Week's Sales Chart
  The latest domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. The past two weeks were highlighted by a big…
• NamesCon Proves Me Wrong - Rooms for the January 2015 Show in Las Vegas Will Be $79 Again
  When NamesCon announced the dates for their 2015 show in Las Vegas I wrote I will be surprised if th…

• Chart Topping Seven-Figure Sale at Sedo Closes First Half of 2014 on a High Note
  We've got some catching up to do! As regular readers know I've been away the past two weeks so our n…
• A New Option for Buying and Selling High End Domain Names Has Just Launched at HilcoDomains.com
  The options you have for buying and selling high end domains just increased by one as well-known IP…
• Domainers Bestow Awards on 16 Industry Leaders, .CO.COM Enters GA &HA Announces Next Auction
  I had a very nice break the past 2 weeks, but I'm sorry I had to miss the 2014 Domainer's Choice Awa…
• We are Back in the Real World Ready for Whatever the Second Half of 2014 Has in Store
  I'm back from a two-week break that my wife Diana and I spent celebrating our 30th anniversary in Eu…
• I'm Taking a Break But I Have a Good Excuse!
  The DNJournal office will be closed until July 8. This will be the longest break I've taken since la…
• ParkingCrew Parent Team Internet Sells Majority Interest in Company to Matomy Media Group
  A global digital-performance-based marketing company, Matomy Media Group, has acquired a majority ow…
• Quality Trumps Quantity: Lessons Learned from T.R.A.F.F.I.C. West 2014
  In a final look back at TRAFFIC West 2014 in Las Vegas we tell you about a surprising prediction abo…
• India to Get Its 1st Major Domain Conference - Plans Announced for September Event in Hyderabad
  Though India-based domain companies & investors play a key role in this business the country has nev…
• 2013 Domain Sales Easily Surpass Previous Year Despite Mixed Bag in Closing Quarter
  The domain aftermarket got back on the right track in 2013 with reported sales enjoying a double dig…
• CitiesPlanet Starts Fundable Campaign to Realize Platform's Game Changing Plan for GeoDomains
  Last year we told you about a venture capital company's investment in CitiesPlanet, the geodomain de…
• .Website Set to Debut on New gTLD Battlefield That 's Getting Bloodier With Each Passing Day
  One of the biggest concerns I would have if I were launching a new gTLD would be the hit the perceiv…
• Symphony.com Leads This Week's Sales Chart at 375K as Mob.com Makes 6-Figure Music Too
  Two of the year's top 20 domain sales were reported this week with Symphony.com conducting the bigge…
• CentralNic Makes Move Into Retail Registrar Market With Multi-Million Dollar Acquisition of Internet.bs
  CentralNic, a publicly traded domain registry services provider listed company on the London Stock E…
• Paul Goldstone Recalls the Pre-ICANN Days of Domain Registration as He Becomes the New Secretary of the Registrar Stakeholder Group
  Paul Goldstone, who founded one of the earlier domain registrars, has been elected to the Executive…
• ICA Takes Down Corwin Letter on Network Solutions/.XYZ Issue After Fairness Objections Raised
  Yesterday we told you about a letter that ICA Legal Counsel Phil Corwin wrote about the current Netw…
• Phil Corwin's Wake Up Call to ICANN: Time for Oversight Body to Clean Up the NetSol/.XYZ Mess
  For those of you who have not been following the Network Solutions/.XYZ news closely and are wonderi…
• How a New Website is Going to Make My Son-in-Law's Dream Come True
  I've always advised domain investor/developers to take one domain related to a subject they are pass…
• .Coms Sweep 17 of 20 Entries on This Week's Domain Sales Chart and Bag the 4 Biggest 
  You've heard of the calm before the storm - the past week was more like the calm after the storm. We…
• .CO.COM Releases Most of Their Premium Land Rush Domains at Sub $50 Prices
  The .CO.COM Registry has decided to release many of their premium (short, most memorable) domains fo…
• As Phantom .XYZ Registrations Pile Up at NetSol Stats Tracker Plans to Subtract Inflated Numbers
  Well I had hoped for better in the ongoing .XYZ/NetworkSolutions registration fiasco but apparently…
• Profile.com Owner to Get $1.5 Million + Equity to Sell Domain in Deal Brokered by WebsiteProperties.com
  We've learned that brokerage WebsiteProperties.com has won a contract for the owner of Profile.com t…
• Papering the House Backfires on New gTLD Registry But Who is Really to Blame?
  Network Solutions placed tens of thousands of new gTLD domains in client's accounts without asking t…
• Domain Sales Explode With $3 Million Sale & Four 6-Figure Sales Logged Over Past 2 Weeks
  Americans expect to see fireworks on July 4th but they arrived more than a month early in the domain…
• Tooting the .XYZ Horn: Founder Daniel Negari Says His New gTLD Debuted With a Bang
  .XYZ Founder Daniel Negari, whose TLD just entered general availability, has drawn attention by pred…
• Curtain Comes Down on TRAFFIC West: Photos & Highlights from the Last 2 Days in Las Vegas
  The T.R.A.F.F.I.C. West conference completed its 2014 run at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas with a…
• .CLUB Welcomes Another Entertainment Superstar - Demi Lovato - to the Club
  As we are getting packed up to head home from the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. West conference in Las Vegas we jus…
• Day 2 Photos & Highlights from the 2014 T.R.A.F.F.I.C. West Conference in Las Vegas
  The 2014 T.R.A.F.F.I.C. West conference continued Thursday with the first full day of business at th…
• Day 1 Photos & Highlights from the 2014 T.R.A.F.F.I.C. West Conference in Las Vegas
  The 2014 T.R.A.F.F.I.C. West conference officially got underway Wednesday (May 28) at the Bellagio H…
• Pre-Show Photos & Highlights from T.R.A.F.F.I.C West in Las Vegas
  The 2014 T.R.A.F.F.I.C West conference opens this evening with the traditional Welcome Cocktail Part…
• Reflecting on America's Most Somber Holiday & Remembering Gavin Durni
  Americans are observing one of the nation's most important holidays today - Memorial Day - a day dev…
• TRAFFIC Adds Offer You Can't Refuse: Mob Lawyer/Legendary Mayor to Sign Free Books
  The TRAFFIC West conference that opens Wednesday evening in Las Vegas continues to add special last…
• Pasta.com Sells for 250K + 50 Cent Helps Launch .CLUB & DNW Has an Offer You Can't Refuse
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com. Pasta.com has sold for $250,000 - that's a LOT of carbs! Also…
• T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Grants My Wish and Even Throws in a Couple of Autographed Guitars!
  In a change of plans, hot rock band Otherwise, who records for Century Media Records, will play both…
• Hat Trick for 6-Figure Sales: Trio of High End Deals Lights Up This Week's Domain Sales Chart
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. After taking a break the previous week,…
• TRAFFIC Unveils New Details About Next Week's Show in Las Vegas: Otherwise to Perform
  The 2014 TRAFFIC West conference is coming up next week in Las Vegas and show organizers have releas…
• New Quarterly Sales Reports from Domain Holdings Bring Additional Insight to Aftermarket Trends
  Domain Holdings opened a new window into domain aftermarket sales trends this week when the brokerag…
• .CLUB Doubles Down: Will 50 Cent's Appeal Produce a Downpour of Dollars for the New gTLD?
  The lack of new gTLD marketing has been a recurring theme lately. The one really big exception has b…
• Long Isn't Always Wrong: Three-Word .Com Tops This Week's Domain Sales Chart
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. High end buyers like short names so it i…
• Domaining Spain Ends 2014 Run After Attendees from 18 Countries Converged in Valencia
  The 2014 Domaining Spain Conference concluded its 3-day run at the Hotel Sorolla Place in Valencia S…
• TRAFFIC Adds 2nd Keynote Speaker to Expanded Agenda for This Month's Las Vegas Show
  TRAFFIC Co-Founder Rick Schwartz has added some new elements to this month's conference in Las Vegas…
• Fate of New gTLDs & Future of Domain Investing Will Be on the Table at TRAFFIC Las Vegas
  A high stakes game will be going on when the TRAFFIC West Conference runs May 28-31in Las Vegas with…
• New gTLD Top Ten Club Gets New Member in Record Tying Time - .CLUB Does it on Opening Day 
  As more and more new gTLDs enter General Availability it gets harder and harder to stand out in a cr…
• Six-Figure Country Code Sale at Sedo Races to Top of This Week's Domain Sales Chart
  A German ccTLD delivered a satchel full of cash to top our all extension Top 20 Sales Chart this wee…
• South Florida Domain Pros Forming Industry's 1st Local Professional Trade Association
  For several years now domain investors have gathered in a handful of local cities or regions for occ…
• Coming to Your City! bree (featuring David Castello) Opens U.S. Tour Tonight
  This will be a BIG night for Domain Hall of Famer David Castello who also plays drums in the rapidly…
• TRAFFIC Fetches New Lead Sponsor - GetItFido Will Launch Monetization Service in Las Vegas
  When the TRAFFIC West conference returns to Las Vegas this month a new premier sponsor will be on bo…
• New TLDs Need Active Websites to Gain Recognition - How .ME is Getting it Done
  Before ICANN launched its new gTLD program, re-purposed ccTLDs like Colombia's .CO and Montenegro's…
• Flashcards.com Helps Sedo Ace This Week's Sales Test With Quarter Million Dollar Deal
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. Over the years Sedo and their Senior Bro…
• Top 10 New gTLDs Gobbling Up Nearly Half of Sales - 92 Others Fighting Over What's Left
  According to nGTLDStats.com 102 new gTLDs have at least a tiny share of the registrations that have…
• Land Rush for Chinese .Online and .Website TLDs Ends Thursday - General Availability Begins Monday
  Two new Chinese language TLDs - .在线 (.online in Chinese) and .中文网 (.website in Chinese) wi…
• 2014 Domain Sales Chart Gets a New Leader With 7-Figure Sale of a 2-Letter .Com
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. A blockbuster $3.6 million sale that we…
• MI.com Changes Hands for $3.6 Million in the Biggest Domain Sale Reported So Far This Year
  We have a new leader in the 2014 domain sales race! Xiaomi Inc., a major privately owned consumer el…
• Oh My! Rook Media Buys DomainSponsor in a MAJOR Shakeup of Domain Monetization
  Consolidation continues to change the domain world as we knew it. In one of the biggest mashups to d…
• Consolidation Comes to the Domain Blog Business - DomainShane & AccidentalDomainer Are Merging
  Consolidation has been re-shaping the domain industry for years now so it was just a matter of time…
• 3 Six-Figure Sales (2 That Rank Among the Year's Top 20) Lead This Week's Aftermarket Action
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. The pace remained quick in the aftermark…
• Some First Impressions as Six More New gTLDs Entered General Availability Today
  New gTLDs continue to sprout in numbers that are threatening to put the spring flower population to…
• That's a Wrap! Wall to Wall Photos & Highlights from DomainFest 2014 in Hollywood
  The 2014 DomainFest conference wrapped up its three-day run at the Loews Hollywood Hotel in Hollywoo…
• Companies in the News: Verisign, Famous Four's .PARTY, Heritage Auctions & DomainNameWire
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com, news from Verisign, Famous Four Media who just won the right…
• Huge Wave of New Domain Sales Data Floods This Week's Chart With BIG Numbers
  A tsunami of new domain sales data hit our office this week - flooding our weekly charts with the hi…
• DomainNameSales Sets a New Record for a .Net Sale Banking $500,000 for Mobile.net
  DomainNameSales.com Vice President of Sales Jeff Gabriel has confirmed the company has sold Mobile.n…
• .CO.COM Land Rush Starts Tomorrow Then HA's 2nd Big Domain Auction Happens Wednesday
  A couple of notable domain sales events will be happening over the next 48 hours. The new .CO.COM re…
• Three for Three?: Frank Schilling Offers Yet Another Way for Domain Owners to Make Money
  Frank Schilling has already produced 2 big hits as a domain service provider with a disruptive domai…
• The DNA Completes Its Board With New Members from Afilias, Web.com, Neustar, Amazon & Asiamix
  The Domain Name Assocation has finalized its 12-member Board of Directors with the election of five…
• Blacklist.com Attracts a Lot of Greenbacks to Top This Week's Domain Sales Chart
  After hitting the second half of last week's all extension Top 20 Sales Chart with EnergyStock.com.…
• Clubbing the Competition? Land Rush for New .CLUB gTLD Buoyed By Major Marketing Push 
  I'm hearing that the new .CLUB gTLD that opened its Land Rush period today can be seen just about ev…
• New DNJournal.com Facebook Page Offers Exclusive Content and New Article Alerts
  DNJournal has had a presence on Facebook since 2007 however, since I joined before Facebook started…
• DomainFest Organizers Talk About What Has Changed & What's Ahead Next Week in Hollywood
  DomainFest opens Monday morning in Hollywood, California. Show organizers are switching things up th…
• High End Domain Buyers Take a Break - Non .Com Domains Claim 3 of Week's Top 5 Sales
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. After four consecutive weeks highlighted…
• Rick Schwartz Says Domain Investors Will Be Top Dogs When TRAFFIC West Returns in May
  With TRAFFIC West 2014 just two months away Co-Founder Rick Schwartz sent out a conference update le…
• NamesCon Returning in 2015 - Las Vegas Show Will Run January 11-14 at the Tropicana Hotel
  After a very successful debut show this past January in Las Vegas the NamesCon conference today anno…
• Finalists Named in DCA Award Balloting - Field Narrowed to Top Three in 16 Industry Categories
  The first stage of balloting for the 2014 Domainers Choice Awards was completed over the weekend wit…
• DCA Noms Close Saturday Night...Calling All SoCal Domainers...Larry Fischer Lands a BIG One!
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: time is running out if you want to vote in the 2014 Domainers…
• Rockin' Day for Registries! Neustar Buys .CO, TLD Registry Takes Bow in Macau, Sun Rises on .XYZ
  What a big news day for domain registries - one that culminated late this afternoon when Neustar ann…
• 2 More Big Sales (One Ranking Among the Year's Top Ten) Lead This Week's DNJ Chart
  The domain aftermarket's long streak of big sales continued this week with two more that cracked the…
• With U.S. Exit Who Will Oversee the Internet? + What's Inside Frank Schilling's New Domain Registrar?
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: the U.S. Government plans to give up oversight of ICANN so wh…
• Berlin Becomes 1st City to Have its Own TLD Tomorrow When Open Registration for .BERLIN Begins
  Like ccTLDs, new TLDs representing major cities like New York, Paris and Miami will give local busin…
• You Think Domain Names Are Expensive? A Mobile Phone Number Just Sold for $2.12 Million!
  We've seen several 7-figure domain sales over the past two weeks but did you know that some mobile p…
• 2-Digit Domain Sells For 7 Figures & 4-Letter .Com Commands 6 Figures to Lead New DNJ Chart
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. We are continuing to see some eye poppin…
• Heritage Auctions Steps Back Up to the Plate With 2nd Major Domain Auction That Opened Today
  Heritage Auctions became the 1st major mainstream auction house to sell domain names last fall when…
• 2014 Domainers's Choice Awards Nominations Opened Today in 16 Industry Categories
  Nominations for the 2014 Domainer's Choice Awards opened today and will remain open until midnight M…
• Inside the House That Domains Built: Frank Schilling Opens the Doors to His Grand Cayman Home
  The Financial Times published a nice profile of legendary domain investor Frank Schilling today. Mos…
• And the Hits Just Keep on Coming! 37.Com Sold to Chinese Company for Nearly $2 Million
  Just yesterday I told you about the first two 7-figure domain sales reported this year - Whisky.com…
• TWO Multi-Million Dollar Sales Take Over Top Spots on DNJ's Weekly & YTD Sales Charts
  The year's first seven-figure domain sales were reported this week - one cracking the $3 million bar…
• SXSW Interactive Festival Begins Friday - Sedo's Jeremiah Johnston to Speak About New gTLDs
  The huge SXSW Interactive Festival begins its five-day 2014 run Friday in Austin, Texas. Sedo's long…
• Web.com Swallows SnapNames, Afilias Gets .Green & Domains90210 Opens Auction Site
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com, SnapNames changed hands again, this time moving from KeyDrive…
• 1st Domain Conference Requiring No Travel & Little Cost - Webfair Virtual - Coming in June
  Webfair Virtual, being organized by DomainIndex.com, plans to offer a low cost alternative to tradit…
• Whisky.com: How Michael Castello Turned a Free Domain Into a $3.1 Million Sale!
  In a new DN Journal Cover Story domain visionary Michael Castello reveals one of his greatest succes…
• 100.com Changes Hands for $950,000 in the Highest Domain Sale Reported So Far This Year
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. Last week I was talking about the high e…
• Top Level Domain Holdings Wins Costly Fight For .Wedding But Bows Out of Battle for .Green
  The fate of one of the more attractive new gTLDs was announced today when TLDH revealed they won rig…
• Making News: Uniregistry, .CO.COM, RightOfTheDot, The DNA, SedoMLS & Name.com
  Just another Manic Monday! Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com Frank Schilling's Uniregistry.com,…
• Domain Boardroom Sets Dates for the Private Forum's 3rd Annual DBR Funfest
  Dates for a popular domain industry get together were announced today on DBR FunFest's Facebook page…
• Web.com Enters 8 New Markets, .ORG Growth Continues & Domainfest Names Its Keynote Speaker
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com, Internet services provider Web.com hasn't been content to do…
• High End of Domain Market Takes a Breather But Two Older 7-Figure Sales Come to Light
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. After producing a long string of six-fig…
• Annual Sedo Study Says .Com Rang Up Higher Sales & a Bigger Share of the Market in 2013
  Domain sales and monetization giant Sedo released their annual Domain Market Study covering 2013 tod…
• Domainfest Lands Stone Temple Pilots With Chester Bennington But Who Has ChesterBennington.com?
  Domainfest 2014 has signed famous rock band Stone Temple Pilots with Chester Bennington to play a pr…
• DomainingSpain Conference Update Comes With a Love Story & A Hard Lesson Learned
  The annual Domaining Spain conference will be returning to the beautiful seaside city of Valencia Ma…
• There They Grow Again! John Ferber Launches New Ad Firm & Turakhia Fortunes Continue to Rise
  After selling Advertising.com for $500 million John Ferber entered the domain business as co-founder…
• 4 More 6-Figure Sales (All .Coms) Top This Week's Sales Chart - One Ranks Among Year's Top 5
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. After producing a half dozen six-figure…
• CitiesPlanet Inks Deal With iDigitalRussia.com to Develop and Launch Over 4,700 .RU Websites
  CitiesPlanet.com, the domain development platform founded by geodomain industry leader Fred Mercaldo…
• Olympics Whetting Your Appetite for Sports Domains? Sedo & .CLUB Want to Put You in the Owner's Suite
  If you are like many domainers, ideas for new domain names are popping into your head while you watc…
• You Can't Tell the Players Without a Program: New Tools for Keeping Track of the New gTLDs
  If you go to a basketball game you may pick up a program so you can figure out who's who among the d…
• A Half Dozen 6-Figure Sales (5 of Them ccTLDs) Lead Another Big Week for the Domain Market
  You have to love the fast start the domain market has gotten off to in 2014. In yet another big week…
• New Venture for Sedo Co-Founders Schumacher & Essman - Helping Build a "Sedo for Apps"
  Tim Schumacher & Ulrich Essman, 2 of the 4 college friends who founded Sedo in 2001, have gotten inv…
• Why Rick Schwartz Believes Buying New gTLDs Now Could be Hazardous to Your Financial Health
  A lot of different views about new gTLDs are expressed by the 17 domain industry experts featured in…
• Photos & Highlights From the 1st DNSeattle Domain Meetup Held on Top of the Space Needle
  DNSeattle, a new meetup for Seattle area domain investors and entrepreneurs, was held for the first…
• State of the Industry: 17 Experts Dish on What Happened in 2013 & How New gTLDs Will Impact 2014
  The 10th edition of DN Journal's annual State of the Industry Cover Story is out. . We have assemble…
• Wan More Time! For the 2nd Week in a Row the 3 Biggest Domain Sales Total Over $1.3 Million
  As legendary linguist Yogi Berra once said, It's deja vu all over again! For the 2nd week in a row,…
• First Domains From Donuts Start Coming Out of the Oven Tomorrow When Open Registration Begins
  No one has placed a bigger bet on new gTLDs than Donuts. The new registry operator raised over $100…
• Marc Ostrofsky Gives Us the Inside Story on Home Depot's Big Purchase of Blinds.com
  When the Wall Street Journal reported that Home Depot had acquired Blinds.com, I immediately remembe…
• DomainFest Returning to Original Name & Hollywood Location for 2014 Show Opening March 31
  DomainFest will be returning to Los Angeles March 31-April 3, 2014. The upcoming conference will hav…
• Trio of 6-Figure Sales Totaling Over $1.3 Million Headline a Fabulous Fortnight for Domains
  The domain aftermarket has gotten the New Year off to a quick start. A trio of six-figure sales - tw…
• Photos & Highlights from David & bree's Rock & Roll Wedding Saturday in Las Vegas
  Domain Hall of Famer & rock band musician/manager David Castello married band mate bree Saturday aft…
• Going to the Chapel and They're Going to Get Married: David & bree's Rock & Roll Wedding Just Hours Away
  Our friends, Domain Hall of Famer David Castello and his beautiful bride and bandmate bree, are gett…
• Photos & Highlights From the Last Two Landmark Days at the Inaugural NamesCon Conference
  With close to 600 registrants on hand, the inaugural NamesCon Conference completed its run with 6 ke…
• Huge Water Night Party at NamesCon Raised Over $111,000 for the Water School But 3 Domainers Got Scalped!
  The domain industry showed up in a BIG way for the Water School last night at a huge Water Night fun…
• Photos and Highlights From Opening Night at the Inaugural NamesCon Conference in Las Vegas
  We arrived at the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas Monday, joining almost 600 others who are converging…
• Rosters Released for Epic Ping Pong Battle at NamesCon - Women in Domaining Also to Meet
  Lots of NamesCon news for you today. The rosters have been released for next week's 16-man East vs.…
• Competition in the Domain Escrow Business Escalates with EscrowHill.com Opening Today
  With the arrival of hundreds of new TLDs this year many expect the number of aftermarket domain sale…
• 2014 Domain Sales Season Gets Underway With a Big Canadian ccTLD Sale Leading the Charge
  And they are off! The 2014 domain sales season is underway with the first week of reported sales now…
• Growing Companies in the News: Afternic, the .ME Registry & WhizzbangsBlog
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com, notes on growth developments at three well-known companies. A…
• Crazy for Keynotes! Next Week's NamesCon Conference Will Feature Five Keynote Speakers
  The countdown to the first ever NamesCon conference continues. A big crowd will be on hand for next…
• 2013 Domain Sales Season Closes With 30 Five-Figure Sales Logged Over the Final 2 Weeks
  The 2013 domain sales season is over, closing with 30 five-figure sales reported over the past two w…
• The Holidays Were Great But It's Even Better to Be in a Business Where Going Back to Work is Fun!
  I hope you all had a relaxing and enjoyable holiday season with family and friends. As much as I enj…
• Award Winning Sedo Brokers Provide an Inside Look at the Business of Buying & Selling Domains
  With PPC revenue down, domain sales have become more important than ever in generating revenue. That…
• T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East 2013: A Pictorial Review of the Last Bash on Fort Lauderdale Beach
  The 25th edition of the pioneering TRAFFIC conference was held in October on Ft. Lauderdale Beach.Th…
• Welcome to 2014! Get Ready for a Year Filled With BIG Changes and Even Bigger Opportunities
  A new year beckons with great prospects for people in the domain business. Like every year that has…
• Final Agenda Announced for 1st NamesCon Conference Opening 2 Weeks From Today in Las Vegas
  NamesCon organizers have released the final agenda for their debut show that opens Jan. 13 in Las Ve…
• Water School's Good Work Earns Domain Industry Supported Charity a $100,000 Cash Award
  Most domain industry participants are well aware of the life saving work being done by the Water Sch…
• Christmas Comes Early for Domain Sellers With Six 6-Figure Sales Topping This Week's Chart
  It was a banner week for domain sales led by a half-dozen six-figure sales including the year's bigg…
• HA's Debut in the Domain Business Continues to Pay Dividends Well After 1st Sale Ended
  Heritage Auctions rang up over $1.5 million in their first domain sale but even those who did not ha…
• Domain Masters Radio Resurfaced Wednesday With an Outspoken New Mann Behind the Mike
  After nearly 9 years on the air, the Domain Masters radio show went silent last spring. However, it…
• Trio of 6-Figure Sales Totaling Over $1 Million Top This Week's Domain Sales Chart 
  Several domain owners got very nice early Christmas presents this past week when they sold names tha…
• 2014 Tour Will Bring bree (with Drummer/ Domainer David Castello) to Our City & Maybe Yours Too!
  Christmas came early for us today when we learned that Domain Hall of Famer David Castello will be b…
• Why Do We Call Them Computer Bugs? Google Honors the Woman Who Coined the Term in 1945! 
  You seen Google Doodles, the whimsical cartoons the search giant uses in place of their standard log…
• Fix.com Sells for $850,000 + HA Moves MutualFunds.com to Push Auction Total Past $1.5 Million
  High end domain sales slowed during the Thanksgiving holiday last week but they are back this week.…
• Companies Making News: Archeo, InterNetX's New Domain Game, Turkey.com & Igloo.com
  Today in the Lowdown at DN Journal: Archeo sets Buy It Now prices on over 30,000 domains, InterNetX…
• Domain Bargain Hunters Kept Thanksgiving Cash Registers Ringing Last Week
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. America's 4-day Thanksgiving weekend cut…
• Tickets for Domaining Spain 2014 Now Available & We Have a Half-Price Ticket Code For You
  With a low registration price and hotel room rates discounted to an astonishingly low €70 a night,…
• .KIWI Borrows Page From .TV Game Plan - Fixed Prices Announced for "Premium" Names
  The .KIWI registry has decided to set fixed prices ranging from $500 to thousands of dollars on the…
• One Lucky Organization Will Win a $35,000 Website Makeover From .ORG Operator PIR
  Public Interest Registry (PIR), the administrator of .ORG domains, has announced 10 finalists in the…
• Happy Thanksgiving! What Time Has Taught Us and What We Have Learned
  When I think of the countless things I am thankful for today, the many special people I've met and f…
• 88888.com Tops This Week's Sales Chart After Changing Hands in One of Year's 20 Biggest Deals
  When you first see 88888.com you might think someone has a button stuck on their keyboard, but there…
• First Big Wave of New gTLDs Arrives with Donuts Opening Sunrise for 7 Extensions Today
  After years of talk new gTLDs have finally started arriving at registrars in significant numbers. Do…
• Queen of the Hill: Andee Hill Leaves Escrow.com to Launch New Service at EscrowHill.com
  Andee Hill, the former Director of Business Development at industry giant Escrow.com, has left the c…
• HA Stages 1st Domain Auction - Mann Goes Behind the Mike & Bree Wows Crowd With New Video
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal: Reflections on the first Heritage Auctions live domain sale...Col…
• British Expert Edwin Hayward Sounds Off on Nominet's Decision to Offer New .UK Domains
  Last year Nominet had British domain owners in an uproar with their plan to allow top level .uk regi…
• ccTLDs Bounce Back With Week's Biggest Domain Sale and Six Places on the Top 20 Chart
  After .coms went on a rampage, sweeping 19 of 20 entries on our all extension Top 20 Sales Chart the…
• Oversee Offers a Cure for Mundane Weekends With Their Latest Website - WanderWe.com
  Oversee.net owns one of the industry's largest domain portfolios but they have become major develope…
• Final Countdown Underway for Landmark Heritage Auctions Domain Sale Coming Up Thursday
  For the first time one of the world's three biggest auction houses - Heritage Auctions - will be run…
• How NamesCon Plans to Spur Domain Industry Growth With New January Show in Las Vegas
  After seeing a void on the domain conference calendar Richard Lau decided to fill it with a new show…
• Paul Goldstone Assembles All-Star Team Led By CEO Ken Hansen to Launch CO.COM Registry
  Domain industry veteran Paul Goldstone has decided what he wants to do with his favorite domain - co…
• Why Team Internet, EMail.biz, Fred Mercaldo & Elliot Silver Have Reason to Celebrate
  You may have heard the sound of corks popping in domain circles over the past few days. Several well…
• $2.7 Million 2-Letter .Com Tops This Week's Domain Sales Chart With Year's 2nd Biggest Sale
  The domain aftermarket had another solid outing this week with the year's second biggest sale (and i…
• Go Daddy Founder Bob Parsons Donates $1 Million to Help Military Veterans in His Hometown
  Go Daddy Founder and former U.S. Marine Bob Parsons was back in his hometown of Baltimore this week.…
• Veteran's Day 2013 - Saluting Military Veterans in the Domain Industry
  Today is Veteran's Day in the U.S., a day when America honors the men and women who have served in o…
• Calling All Military Veterans Now Serving in the Domain Industry - We Want to Recognize You Monday
  Monday will be Veteran's Day in the United States - a day when we honor the men and women who have s…
• Castello Brothers Sell LagunaBeach.com - KK.com Goes for $2.4 Million - Ward.com Acquired for $2,999!
  In a rare occurrence, the Castello Brothers have let one of their developed geodomain properties go.…
• .Coms Fill First 3 Spots on This Week's Top 20 Sales Chart But Non .Coms Also Do Well
  The weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. .Coms registered another win, taking the top…
• Veteran Domain Industry Exec Taryn Naidu Lands on the Right Side of Demand Media Makeover
  Demand Media has announced the CEO, executive team and company name chosen for a newly formed domain…
• Scintillating Schwartz-Schilling New gTLD Debate Video Now Complete With Part Two Online
  TRAFFIC has released the 2nd part of the show's video of a scintillating new gTLD debate between Tea…
• Domain Sales Soar in 3Q-2013 - $ Volume Rockets Up 37% From 2Q-2013 - Up 47% from 3Q-2012
  With the high end of the market finally making a comeback, total sales across all extensions not onl…
• Part One of Rousing Schwartz vs. Schilling New gTLD Debate Video is Here + Plus a New Association is Formed to Promote the New Extensions
  Without question a highlight of last week's TRAFFIC East conference was a rousing debate over new gT…
• Past Fortnight in the Domain Aftermarket Produced Three 6-Figure Sales & Dozens in 5 Figures
  The latest weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. Since we were away covering T.R.A.F.F…
• Domains Move Into the Big Time With Heritage Auctions Pushing Them in National Ad Campaign
  In July I told you about one of the world's 3 biggest auction houses - Heritage Auctions (HA) - open…
• Domain Industry Joins Family & Friends Mourning the Loss of Trellian Founder/CEO Ren Warmuz
  It is always painful to lose someone you care about but when a person in the very prime of their lif…
• Domain Hall of Fame Member Michael Mann Announces Plan to Start a New Political Party
  After making his mark in the domain industry T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Hall of Fame member Michael Mann is now…
• TRAFFIC East Ends With Food, Friends & Fond Farewells at Wednesday Morning Breakfast
  The curtain came down on the 25th edition of TRAFFIC Wednesday morning when the 2013 T.R.A.F.F.I.C.…
• Photos & Highlights from the Final Day of Business at the 2013 TRAFFIC East Conference
  The final day of business at the 2013 T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East conference Tuesday (Oct. 22) got underway…
• Photos & Highlights from Day Two at the TRAFFIC East Conference Monday at Ft. Lauderdale Beach
  The 2013 T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East conference continued Monday (Oct. 21) with the first full day of busine…
• Opening Day Photos & Highlights from the 2013 TRAFFIC East Conference at Fort Lauderdale Beach
  The 2013 T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East conference officially got underway Sunday (Oct. 20) at the Ritz Carlton…
• Photos & Highlights From a Fabulous Day of TRAFFIC East Pre-Show Networking at Ft. Lauderdale Beach Saturday
  The flock of T.R.A.F.F.I.C. early birds continued to grow Saturday on a gorgeous day at the Ritz Car…
• How T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Pre-Show Networking Turned into a Crazy Mix of Mardi Gras and ComicCon
  A funny thing happened as the first day of pre-show networking at the 2013 TRAFFIC East conference w…
• TRAFFIC Gets Underway Today With 2 Days of Pre-Show Networking Leading Up to the Main Event
  We're driving south today, on our way across the state to Fort Lauderdale Beach for the TRAFFIC Conf…
• John Quail's Claim to Fame: How a Young Irish Entrepreneur Used Domains to Build a Booming Business
  DNJournal Cover Story: 28-year-old John Quail has had a lot of success buying & selling high end dom…
• Domain Aftermarket Explodes With 3 Blockbuster Sales Totaling $2.2 Million
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com and it was a banner week for the aftermar…
• All Aboard! The 1st Rolling Domain Conference Was Held on a Stunning Luxury Bus in Berlin
  Christoph Grueneberg & Thomas Mueller have staged the largest German language domain show for 7 year…
• With Domain Investing Becoming a Bigger Game Elliot's Blog Gets a Perfect New Name
  If you typed ElliotsBlog.com into your browser this morning you might have been surprised to see a d…
• Demand Media Co-Founder Richard Rosenblatt Resigns as Chairman & CEO
  Demand Media Co-Founder Richard Rosenblatt has stepped down as the company's Chairman, effective imm…
• Why Bonus Networking Days Are Attracting a Growing Flock of T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Early Birds
  The T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East conference coming up Oct. 20-23 in Fort Lauderdale Beach, Florida will be a…
• Trio of 6-Figure Sales Including Year's 2nd Biggest ccTLD Sale Power Domains to Another Big Week
  The domain aftermarket continues to gain steam as we head into the home stretch for 2013. The past w…
• Bidding Opens in TRAFFIC/Above.com Silent Auction + Servers.com on the Block in Bankruptcy Sale
  Auctions are in the news today. The T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference has enlisted Above.com's Domain Market…
• How You Can Help Escrow.com Secure a Spot in the Super Bowl Advertising Line Up
  When the 2014 Super Bowl game is played in February more than 100 million TV viewers may see a comme…
• People & Companies in the News: Public Interest Registry, Steve Banfield & Hilco Streambank
  A busy week for the domain business started with the Public Interest Registry, the operator of the p…
• TRAFFIC Just Two Weeks Away - Agenda for the Florida Show Includes a New gTLD Debate
  T.R.A.F.F.I.C.'s annual Florida conference is always a highlight of the year's closing quarter and t…
• Hot Week for Domain Sales Led By an $850,000 Deal & Two Others at a Half Million Each
  Summer may be over but 2013 domain sales were hotter than ever this past week when 3 of the year's t…
• Sedo Founders Sell Remaining Shares to United Internet - Domain Powerhouse to Go Private
  European internet giant United Internet has acquired the last 4.46 million shares of Sedo that were…
• Igal Lichtman's Domain Monetization Legacy Lives on With ParkingCrew Picked to Serve TrafficMedia Clients
  With the February 2013 passing of domain industry legend Igal Lichtman, Lichtman's TrafficMedia team…
• Verisign Research Says Businesses Prefer Websites to Social Media - Sedo Offers New gTLD Insight
  A couple of new studies are out with findings that should be of interest to domain investors. Verisi…
• Registrar InterNetX Lures New Resellers With Free Professional Domain Management Software
  One of the first issues people run into when they get into the domain business is keeping track of a…
• Endless Parade of Scammers & Domain Hijackers Prompts Rick Schwartz to Expand Hall Of Shame
  Rick Schwartz's new HallOfShame.com website is outing would be domain thieves found guilty of revers…
• Pizza.net Changes Hands for 6 Figures in Year's Biggest .Net Sale to Top This Week's Chart
  A hot one came out of the .net oven this week. Pizza.net changed hands in the biggest .net sale repo…
• Companies & Organizations in the News: Marchex, Archeo, DomainTools & Southern California Domainers
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: Marchex changes plans to take their Archeo domain division pu…
• Blockbuster Acquistion: Go Daddy Buys Afternic and SmartName From NameMedia
  In one of the most significant acquisitions in domain industry history GoDaddy has purchased two maj…
• Six-Figure Sale of Intranet.com Helps Sedo Sweep 9 of the Week's 10 Biggest Sales
  In our last weekly domain sales report of the summer (fall officially arrives this weekend!) Sedo ce…
• DomainNameSales Rolls Out New Services Led By Beefed Up Brokerage Team & Buy It Now Option
  DomainNameSales (DNS), the disruptive aftermarket sales platform founded by Frank Schilling, has add…
• German Partners Acquire Sale.co.uk Domain to Expand Business They Created at Sale.de
  Christoph Grueneberg and Thomas Mueller are well-known figures in the domain business. They own one…
• Oversee/DomainSponsor Celebrates Sam Tseng's 10th Anniversary With the Company
  There are very few people in the domain industry that have spent ten years with the same company. !…
• .ME & Marlers Team Up in Effort To Teach Kids Programming & Create Tech Jobs in Rural America
  The .ME Registry has teamed up with domain investor/developer Bruce Marler and his wife Tiffany in a…
• Multi-Million Dollar Deal - the Year's Biggest to Date - Leads This Week's Expanded Sales Chart
  I was on vacation last week and during that quiet time (from a reporting stand point) the domain aft…
• $100 Million Deal to Buy Directi in the Works & Marc Ostrofsky's New Book Hit Store Shelves Today
  Today in the Lowdown - a deal to buy India's biggest registrar, Directi, is in the works....Domain p…
• 200,000 Domains from the Massive Marchex Portfolio Made Available on New Sales Platform
  One of the best portfolios in industry history is now up for sale with more than 200,000 names to ch…
• Rick Schwartz's Hall of Shame - The New York Times Does Domains & Jim Grace Joins Team Internet
  I want to update you on some news and information that came out while I was away on vacation last we…
• Two-Letter .Com Domain Sold for $4.7 Million in the Year's Largest Domain Sale to Date
  I just returned from vacation and this is the kind of news I like to come back to. Veteran domain br…
• Two-Character .Com Sold for $140,000 in Deal Co-Brokered by SuccessClick and DomainGuardians
  SuccessClick and DomainGuardians teamed up to sell a two-character .com domain (a number and a lette…
• National Advertisers Say ICANN Preparations for New gTLD Rollout "Woefully Inadequate"
  In a letter we received today, the Association of National Advertisers, who represents dozens of wel…
• Sedo & Go Daddy Team Up to Produce 6-Figure Sale That Tops This Week's Sales Chart
  Aftermarket powerhouses Sedo and Go Daddy Auctions joined forces to generate a 6-figure sale and tak…
• Rising Star: How 27-Year-Old Warren Buffett Disciple Daniel Negari Is Building an Internet Empire
  Few 27-year-olds have enjoyed as much entrepreneurial success as Daniel Negari has. From online reta…
• A Hair Razing Experience: How the Water School Has Changed Lives (Including Jodi Chamberlain's)
  After allowing her head to be shaved in return for donations to The Water School, veteran domain con…
• After Debuting With a Bestseller Author/Domain Pioneer Marc Ostrofsky Returns With Word of Mouse!
  Domain industry pioneer & author Marc Ostrofsky made the New York Times Best Sellers List with his f…
• The Beat Goes On: Email.biz Offers Free Original Music Downloads to Attract New Users
  This past spring I told you about Indian entrepreneur Anshul Goyal signing a Bollywood movie star to…
• Russian Girls Reign Over This Week's Sales Chart After 6-Figure Deal at DomainNameSales
  After just a one-week absence the six-figure sale returned this week with RussianGirls.com doing the…
• DomainState Unveils New Domain Industry Directory & Special Section Detailing Registrar Stats
  One of the first domain forums - DomainState.com - is now offering a comprehensive domain industry d…
• Domainer Steven Newman Takes the Development Plunge With Slick New Site at SportsPicks.com
  I've always thought that it was a good idea for domain investors to try their hand at developing at…
• POP.CO Promises to Put Businesses Online Instantly + Two Veteran Industry Execs Join New Teams
  The .CO registry has announced the beta release of POP.CO, a new platform that says it can almost in…
• How CBS-TV Got UnderTheDome.com For a Bargain Price Just Before the #1 Show Launched
  I you have been watching TV this summer you probably know all about CBS-TV's hit series Under The Do…
• Sedo Dissects the Domain Market & Their Own Financial Results + What's Up With Chicago.com?
  Sedo has released their latest quarterly domain market study and reports sales were spread across a…
• 7-Week Run of Blockbuster Domain Sales Ends But Over 30 Solid 5-Figure Sales Were Booked
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. After 7 straight weeks with at least one…
• Do the Math: Domain Market Comeback Continues With Blockbuster Sale of MathGames.com
  For the 7th consecutive week the domain aftermarket has produced at least one 6-figure (or higher) s…
• TRAFFIC Picks a New Miami Beach Venue & Hints of a New Conference Role for Adam Dicker
  Predicting a new boom in the domain business, T.R.A.F.F.I.C. co-founder Rick Schwartz announced the…
• Bill Karamouzis Buys MathGames.com for $725,000 to Launch Groundbreaking New Company
  Bill Karamouzis has revealed that he paid $725,000 to acquire MathGames.com to use for a new website…
• How Bill Karamouzis Plans to Change the World With a Big Idea and a Bold Domain Buy
  After shocking the domain world by paying $350,000 for CookingGames.com in 2010, Bill Karamouzis wen…
• Igloo & DomainNameSales Team Up For $600,000 Sale as Domain Market's Hot Streak Continues
  So much for the summer doldrums! Just before the deadline for our latest weekly domain sales report,…
• Weekly Streak of 6-Figure (or Higher) Domain Sales Will Reach at Least 7 + Sedo Embraces Brazil
  With Sedo announcing a $300,000 sale today our weekly domain sales chart Wednesday will have at leas…
• One of World's Largest Auction Houses Opens New Domain & IP Division Led by Aron Meystedt
  In a landmark development for domains, Heritage Auctions (HA.com), the world's 3rd largest auction h…
• John Berryhill Collars Reverse Domain Name Hijacker on Way to Winning 2 UDRPs in One Day
  Attorney John Berryhill has had many good days in the UDRP arena but Wednesday was an especially gra…
• 3-Letter .Com Sells for 6 Figures to Top This Week's Domain Sales Chart
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. The six-figure sale of a 3-letter .com l…
• Key Domain Sales Indicators Turn Positive in 2Q-2013 - $ Volume & Median Prices Both Rise
  The domain aftermarket may have turned a corner in the 2nd quarter of 2013. We've finished breaking…
• New Funding & Key Partnership Has CitiesPlanet Poised to Put GeoDomains In Higher Orbit
  CitiesPlanet.com, the world’s first full monetization platform for geodomain brands, today announc…
• Dr. Chris Hartnett's Accomplished Father, William Hartnett, is Eulogized in the U.S. Congress
  When I interviewed Dr. Chris Hartnett for a 2008 Cover Story, Chris spent a good deal of time talkin…
• .CO Celebrating 3rd Birthday & Sedo Report Showing Solid Aftermarket Performance for the TLD
  The .CO Registry has a lot to celebrate this week. Saturday marks the TLD's 3rd birthday as a global…
• $380,000 Deal Tops This Week's Domain Sales Chart as High End Resurgence Continues
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. For the 3rd week in a row a blockbuster…
• The European Union's .EU Becomes 9th TLD Offered By The SedoMLS Premium Network
  For domain sellers multiple listing services have dramatically improved the visibility of domains fo…
• Ouch! Only Thing of Value Left From CompUSA & Circuit City Are Domain Names & Trademarks
  I used to spend a lot of time & money at the local CompUSA store. I liked the place so much I even b…
• Sedo Revisited: How the Industry Pioneer Has Kept Pace Through a Decade of Constant Change
  Over the past decade much has changed at Sedo but the company continues to play a leading role in an…
• High End Sales Continue Comeback With BIG Body.com Deal But "Sale" of MD.org Ends in Lawsuit
  High end domain sales continue their comeback with Go Daddy reporting a big deal for Body.com. The y…
• Blockbuster Sale of 114.com Takes Top Spot on DN Journal's New Weekly Top 20 Sales Chart
  As we told you in our Lowdown section Tuesday, the first 7-figure domain sale reported in 2013 has b…
• New Partnership Between IP Neighborhood & Fabulous.com Expands Market for Premium Domains
  Intellectual Property intelligence firm IP Neighborhood and professional domain services provider Fa…
• Year's First 7-Figure Sale Reported - $2.1 Million Domain Goes to a Chinese Buyer
  Seven-figure domain sales have been few and far between in recent years. Only two were reported all…
• REParking.com Creates New Path to Better Revenue From Mortgage and Real Estate Domains
  BankAds.com Co-Founder Sean Sullivan believes the key to getting the best domain monetization result…
• Partnership With Marchex Gives DevHub's Rapid Development Platform a Major Boost
  DevHub.com is known for its rapid website development platform that helps small businesses quickly e…
• Price Paid for Brand.com Revealed - It's Now the Biggest Domain Sale Reported This Year
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal - topped by the biggest sale reported so far…
• Dollars From Donuts: New gTLD Registry Operator Invests in More People & New Office Space
  A key player in the upcoming launch of new gTLDs, registry operator Donuts Inc, is continuing to gea…
• Have Gavel Will Travel: How Paul Keating Became One of the Domain Industry's Top Attorneys
  Over the past decade globe trotting domain defender Paul Keating has proven himself to be one of the…
• New DomainsBot Name Suggestion Tool is First to Recommend TLDs As Well As Keywords
  Many registrars offer domain name suggestion tools (a service most often provided to them by Domains…
• Aftermarket.com Offers New Option for Buying, Selling & Parking Domains in One Place
  Multi-faceted domain industry company Thought Convergence, the parent company of DomainTools.com, Tr…
• InternetMedia & MediaOptions Joint Venture Produces New Way to Sell Domains at DNX.com
  If you've been looking for a new way to sell your domains, the people behind DNX.com, a domain name…
• Trek.com is Star of This Week's Sales Show After Changing Hands in One of Year's Top 5 Transactions
  No question about who was this week's star in the domain aftermarket. Broker Peter Ejtel of SharedRe…
• Fact Book 2013: Everything You Wanted to Know About Canada's .CA ccTLD
  CIRA, the administrator of Canada's .CA country code domain, has done an excellent job of promoting…
• Week's Top Domain Sales Include One of the Year's 10 Biggest Non .Com gTLD Transactions
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. A trio of .coms and a non .com gTLD sale…
• Less Than 3 Weeks After Buying Bouquet.com Bill McClure Has Site Up & Affiliate Program in Place
  Bill McClure bought Bouquet.com for $30,000 in the TRAFFIC Las Vegas live auction just 3 weeks ago b…
• Bar None: Photos & Highlights from the Ari Goldberger Family's Celebration of Life
  As I told you in my last Lowdown post, when I was getting ready to head out for Cherry Hill, New Jer…
• Why a Webcast May Be This Weekend's Best Show & What Ari Goldberger Has to Do With It!
  Though he has been an entrepreneur since he was a kid, business has always taken a back seat to atto…
• 6-Figure Drought Ends With DomainNameSales Ringing Up One of Year's 10 Biggest Sales
  After three consecutive weeks with no six-figure sales reported, DomainNameSales.com ended the after…
• Frank Schilling Announces Major Improvements at DomainNameSales.com
  DomainNameSales.com had an immediate impact on the domain sales business when the site launched last…
• T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Las Vegas 2013: A Pictorial Review of the Big Show at the Bellagio
  For a a fresh perspective our customary final T.R.A.F.F.I.C. review article is being presented in a…
• A European Elected to Chair ICANN's Registrar Stakeholder Group For the First Time
  Despite the huge role European countries play in the global domain industry no one from the continen…
• Six-Figure Sales Drought Reaches 3 Weeks But Market's Mid-Range Continues to Bustle
  After seven straight weeks with one or more six-figure domain sales reported, we've now gone three w…
• nterNetX's DomainShop Wins Top Prize for Their White Label Registration & Hosting Solutions
  Many domain investors operate their own domain registration and/or hosting businesses by using white…
• BrandBucket Founder Says Business is Brisk for Brandable Domains
  Category defining .coms are kings of the domain world but .coms have always been the leader in brand…
• Breakfast of Champions: Why the Final Hour at TRAFFIC Las Vegas Was One of the Show's Best
  I'm back home from another highly productive TRAFFIC conference. My last post from Las Vegas Saturda…
• Photos & Highlights From Friday's Closing Day of the 2013 TRAFFIC Las Vegas Conference
  The 2013 TRAFFIC Las Vegas conference closed with a busy day & night of activity Friday (May 31) at…
• Photos & Highlights from a Busy 2nd Day (& Neon Night) at TRAFFIC Las Vegas 2013
  The 2013 T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Las Vegas conference continued Thursday at the Bellagio Hotel with a busy se…
• Opening Day Photos & Highlights from TRAFFIC Las Vegas 2013: Cabanas, Cocktails & Canadians!
  The 2013 T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Las Vegas conference officially got underway Wednesday (May 29) at the dazzl…
• Fun, Fountains & Friends: Pre-Show Photos & Highlights from T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Las Vegas
  The 2013 T.R.A.F.F.I.C Las Vegas conference gets underway today at the beautiful Bellagio Hotel but…
• U.S. Domainers Join Millions of Americans Observing Memorial Day Today
  For those who live outside the U.S. and may be wondering why this seems to be a slow business day, i…
• In the News: Bill Sweetman, Bree, TRAFFIC Las Vegas, Hilco IP Auctions, Afternic & Directi
  As we head into a long holiday weekend in the U.S., we have news and information from several fronts…
• ccTLDs Take 9 Places on This Week's Sales Chart But No 6- Figure Sales for 1st Time in 2 Months
  After 7 straight weeks with one or more 6-figure sales, the domain aftermarket took a breather this…
• Domainers Rally Around Relief Efforts for Oklahoma Tornado Victims With Charity Domain Auction
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• DomainAdvisors.com Rebrands Under a Cool New Name - Introducing Igloo.com!
  We all love domains but the industry veterans behind DomainAdvisors.com decided that when it comes t…
• TRAFFIC Las Vegas Through the Years - The Shows That Set the Stage for Next Week's Big Event
  When the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference returns to Las Vegas next week it will be the 6th time the pionee…
• Companies in the News: Email.biz, TRAFFIC, Directi's .IN.NET & Michael Cyger's SEOBlog.com
  Lots of ground to cover in the Lowdown at DNJournal today - most centering on the launch of new busi…
• David Castello & Bree to Make National TV Debut Tonight With a Live Performance on AXS-TV
  Things are happening fast for bree and domain industry giant David Castello, a lifelong musician who…
• Two Reasons Nashville.com's David Castello is Doing a Happy Dance
  Domain industry giant David Castello ( who is also a life long musician) moved to Nashville a couple…
• Companies in the News: NameMedia's BuyDomains.com, Sedo & Hilco IP Auctions
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: BuyDomains.com has unveiled a slick new website aimed at end…
• Select.com Tops This Week's Sales Chart With Seller Getting 1,100% Return on His Investment 
  Select.com has the penthouse suite on this week's all extension Top 20 Sales Chart at DNJournal.com…
• TRAFFIC Keeps Live Auction Tradition Alive With Catalog Release for May 30 Sale in Las Vegas
  Live domain auctions have been a fixture at TRAFFIC conferences ever since the pioneering event stag…
• Stop the Presses! Change of Plans for the Big Water Night Party at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Las Vegas
  A big fund raising party for the Water School was going to piggyback on this month's T.R.A.F.F.I.C.…
• Back By Popular Demand: After a 5-Year Absence TRAFFIC Returns to Las Vegas This Month
  Las Vegas used to be an annual stop on the TRAFFIC calendar but this month's conference will be the…
• Trio of 6-Figure Sales Including Year's Biggest ccTLD Deal Fuel Big Week for Domains
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. It was another very strong week for the…
• How the Domain Boardroom Funfest Wound Up Getting Bobbled - And Why That's a Good Thing!
  DomainBoardroom's 2nd annual DBR Funfest wrapped up a four-day run in Dana Point, California Monday…
• Escrow.com Transactions Pass $1.5 BILLION Mark - More Than Half From Domains & Websites
  Escrow.com released some pretty startling sales numbers today when the company reported the total va…
• TRAFFIC Las Vegas: Last Week to Save on Hotel & Registration Rates + Water Night Party Planned
  The T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Las Vegas conference is just 3 weeks way and if you want to go to the highly anti…
• Companies in the News: .ME Registry, Hilco IP Auctions, Afternic & NameJet
  The options for acquiring good domains are going up. .ME is offering 5 premium generic domains to wh…
• One of Year's Three Biggest Sales Tops This Week's Domain Sales Chart
  The past week was a strong one for the domain aftermarket. One of the year's 3 biggest sales set the…
• Photos & Highlights From the Final Day of Business at Domaining Spain 2013 in Valencia
  The Domaining Spain conference closed another successful run over the weekend in Valencia. We've got…
• Jodi's Mane Goes Down the Drain in Spain and the Man Responsible For It Gets a Special Honor!
  In one of the most highly anticipated events at the 2013 Domaining Spain conference that ended over…
• How a 10-Year Journey Helped 2-Year-Old Rook Media Become a Domain Monetization Darling
  New DNJournal Cover Story: Every now and then someone seems to come out of nowhere and capture peopl…
• More Opening Day Photos & Highlights from the Domaining Spain 2013 Conference in Valencia
  The 2013 Domaining Spain conference got underway Thursday in Valencia. We had some more opening day…
• Domaining Spain 2013 Got Underway Today With New gTLDs Leading the Agenda
  The 2013 Domaining Spain conference got underway today with a good crowd on hand for the start of th…
• Twin $200,000 Sales at HuntingMoon Top This Week's Domain Sales Chart
  HuntingMoon.com racked up TWO $200,000 sales this week to claim the first two positions on our lates…
• .PW Registrations Exceed Expectations - Visa Gives .ME High Visibility - NAF Reports Decline in UDRPs
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: The .PW Registry hoped to sell 100,000 domains in its first y…
• T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Announces Plans Through 2015 - Florida Show Will Move to New Venue Next Year
  The next T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference is coming up just 5 weeks from now in Las Vegas. In addition to t…
• People & Companies in the News: Chicago.com, Oversee.net, Bill Sweetman & VentureCamp.com
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: Josh Metnick's Chicago.com forms a major new partnership, Ove…
• VentureCamp: Ambitious New Reality Series Features Domains, Start Ups, Mentors & Mansions!
  Chad Folkening is shooting for the stars in his latest enterprise - VentureCamp. It is a business st…
• Domain Broker's Family Mourns the Loss of Their 13-Year-Old Daughter - Friends Seek Help for Them
  Brianna Berrier, the 13-year-old daughter of domain broker Matthew Berrier, passed away under diffic…
• This Week's Domain Sales Included One of Year's 10 Best + Top 10 ccTLD & Non .com gTLD Sales
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. The past week was a good one for domain…
• Debut CD Coming From bree - the Rising Rocker Discovered by Nashville.com's David Castello
  Domain Hall of Fame member David Castello's return to the rock music world is continuing full steam…
• 1Q-2013 Domain Sales Results Broken Down in New DNJournal.com Newsletter
  DN Journal's latest newsletter is going out to opt-in subscribers today and is also available on the…
• Boston Marathon Bombing Brings Out Vultures Looking to Profit From Tragedy
  It never fails. Whenever disaster strikes, vultures come out of the woodwork to register domain name…
• Facebook Founder and Top Tech Leaders Launch New Political Action Site on .US Domain
  Facebook Founder Marc Zuckerberg and some of the world's top tech leaders, representing companies in…
• Two-Word .Com Clicks for 6 Figures at Sedo and They Go on to Post 12 of the Week's Top 20 Sales
  The first week of April was a particularly good one at Sedo.com. They closed a $120,000 sale (one of…
• Why Brandroot.com's Michael Rader is Banking on Brandable Domains
  Generic domains tend to get most of the attention in this business but many of the most successful s…
• Registered Domains Now Number Over a Quarter of a BILLION + George Kirikos Scores Big Win in Court
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: Verisign's latest quarterly Industry Brief revealed total dom…
• Escrow.com to Unveil New Website This Weekend - Here is a Sneak Peak
  Starting tomorrow Escrow.com visitors will be greeted by a sleek new look featuring a completely rev…
• Friction Over New gTLD Program May Produce Fireworks at ICANN Meeting Opening Sunday
  We may see some fireworks at the ICANN meeting that opens Sunday in Beijing, China. ICANN heads into…
• Big Week for Domain Sales with Two of the Year's 10 Biggest Deals + 2013's Top ccTLD Sale
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. It was a big week with two of the year's…
• eNom's Auction of 39 One and Two Character .ORG Domains Including 1.org Opens Sunday
  PIR's Project 94 auction of 94 previously unreleased one and two character .ORG domains continues wi…
• Nothing But Net: Fred Mercaldo's Fascinating Journey from Steelworker to Geodomain Statesman
  New DNJournal Cover Story: It took awhile for Fred Mercaldo to find his true calling. After morphing…
• Citing Afilias Survey Retail Trade Magazine Says Consumers Have No Clue What New gTLDS Are
  RetailDigital.com published a story today that said 75% of U.S. and UK consumers are oblivious to ne…
• DomainBoardRoom Celebrates 6th Birthday Sunday - Members Set to Party at Upcoming Funfest
  Congratulations to founder Donna Mahony and the members of DomainBoardRoom.com on the private domain…
• Flurry of NDA Sales Leaves Door Open for Lower Level Deals to Take Top Spots on Sales Chart
  This was the slowest sales week we've seen thus far in 2013 but, as the old saying goes, numbers can…
• HealthInsurance.net Sold For $525,000 - Plus .PW Opens to the Public
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com - HealthInsurance.net changes hands for $525,000 and, with its…
• Industry Veteran Opens New Forum Dedicated to Domain Leasing & NeusNews Gets New Look
  This year's buzz around domain leasing is about to get even louder. Industry veteran Gordon Martin h…
• DomainHoldings Rings Up 6-Figure Sale to Take Top Spot on This Week's Domain Sales Chart
  DomainHoldings.com sits at the summit on DN Journal's latest weekly Top 20 Domain Sales Chart after…
• Ari Goldberger Goes Big with Launch of Songs.com and MD.com
  Most of you know Ari Goldberger as one of the domain industry's elite attorneys but he is also a ser…
• Parking is Dead? Why ParkingCrew's Founders Say You Can Cancel the Funeral
  How many times have you heard that domain parking is dead? If that is the case, then you have to ask…
• Simon Johnson Ratchets Up the Domain Intelligence Arms Race With IP Neighborhood
  One sure sign that this industry has come of age is the increasing sophistication of professional re…
• Extent of Procter & Gamble's UDRP Deceit Growing as More Facts Come to Light
  Earlier this week a WIPO panel found Procter & Gamble guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking, in pa…
• ccTLDs Take Top Spots on This Week's Domain Sales Chart & Pile Up Nearly Half of All Entries
  Someone must have declared the past 7 days ccTLD Week. Country code domains took the top two spots o…
• After a Decade of Creating Research Tools for Domain Investors Luc Lezon Paints His Masterpiece
  When I entered the domain business one of the first people I came across was Luc Lezon, a software w…
• Procter & Gamble Not Too Big to Fail -  Reverse Hijacking Attempt Tarnishes Famous Name
  If there was a Dumbest UDRP Filing of the Year Award Procter & Gamble would probably have the 2013 d…
• Five Great Australian Domains Go on the Market - Our Rule Book Goes Out the Window
  They say rules are made to be broken but I try not to break them, especially when they are my own ru…
• Go Daddy Scores Brownie Points With Aspiring New gTLD Registry Operators at Arizona Confab
  Go Daddy didn't become the world's biggest domain registrar by leaving a lot of stones unturned. The…
• Afternic Locks Up the Top Spot on This Week's Domain Sales Chart With LawHelp.com
  There were no 6-figure sales reported this week but Afternic came within hailing distance of that lo…
• SXSW Interactive Festival to Address New gTLDs With Presentation from Sedo's Jeremiah Johnston
  The massive 2013 SXSW Interactive Festival  in Austin, Texas is going to shine a light on new gTLDs…
• Webfest Global's Maiden Voyage: Why the Conference Set Sail With a New Name & A Different Game
  After running 6 annual conferences under the DOMAINfest Global banner, the show's promoter, Oversee.…
• World Accelerator Adds Teacher.com, Couple.com & Scandal.com to Their New Development Platform
  Last fall Gary Millin launched World Accelerator, a new platform aimed at partnering with experience…
• Great Value, Beautiful Location & Timely Agenda Has Domaining Spain Set Up for Another Sellout
  Domaining Spain 2013 is now less than 8 weeks away. This annual conference in beautiful Valencia, Sp…
• .CO.UK Rescued, .ORG Rockets, Chris Hartnett Sparkles & Igal Lichtman's Light Shines On
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com - Great Britain's venerable .CO.UK extension avoids a self-inf…
• 3-Word Portuguese Term Produces Week's Top Domain Sale - Canadian Domain Fills #2 Slot
  This week's all extension Top 20 Domain Sales Chart has a distinctly international flavor with a pai…
• New Service Offers Short Term Cash Loans Secured by Your Domains & Financing for New Purchases
  Attorney Matt Collins has launched a new financial services company at inteLend.com. Collins designe…
• NameMedia CEO Kelly Conlin in Line for a Board of Directors Seat at a Major Media Conglomerate
  NameMedia's Kelly Conlin is one of the few top executives who has successfully transitioned from tra…
• What Do Domainers, Escrow.com, Guitars, Giving, Geddy Lee and Rush Have in Common?
  Here is a riddle to puzzle over this weekend (at least until you find out the answers in our latest…
• DomainMarket President Resigns, Protrada Partners With DomainPower & .US Registry Up For Grabs
  Today in the Lowdown: After just 10 months on the job the President of Michael Mann's DomainMarket h…
• Sedo and DomainNameSales Trade Punches to Sweep 9 of the Week's Top 10 Domain Sales
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. Popular venues Sedo and DomainNameSales…
• Family & Friends Honored Domain Industry Giant Igal Lichtman at Funeral Service This Afternoon
  A funeral service for domain industry giant Igal Lichtman was held this afternoon in Igal's home tow…
• The Domain Industry Loses a Giant - Igal Lichtman Leaves Us After a Life Very Well Lived
  This is the hardest article I've ever had to write. When I got a text message last night that said m…
• Did You Know the Latest New TLD Land Rush Opened Today? Say Hello to .PW
  You've been hearing about ICANN's impending launch of 100s of new gTLDs for years now, but new gTLDs…
• DomainAdvisors Get Their Mojo Working With $300,000 Sale That Tops This Week's Chart
  DN Journal has a double dose of domain sales data for you this week. There was no sales column last…
• Death of Parking Pronouncements Premature? Oversee Says PPC Earnings Are Improving
  Oversee.net CEO Debra Domeyer tells us the company saw year over year growth in domain monetization…
• Rick Schwartz Sounds Off on New gTLDs and the Key Difference Between Them and .Com
  Rick Schwartz shared his new gTLD view with me while I was conducting interviews for our current Sta…
• Closing Day Photos and Highlights From the 2013 Webfest Global Conference in Santa Monica
  The 2013 Webfest Global conference (the 7th annual show staged by Oversee.net's DomainSponsor unit)…
• Day 2 Photos and Highlights from the Webfest Global Conference Including Kim Kardashian Keynote
  Variety was the order of the day Wednesday at the Webfest Global conference. In keeping with the sho…
• Opening Day Photos and Highlights from the Webfest Global Conference + Richard Lau Loses His Locks 
  In my last post Tuesdsy morning, that went up just before the 2013 Webfest Global conference got und…
• Photos and Highlights From Frank Schilling's Dinner for Domain Brokers Last Night in Santa Monica
  The 2013 Webfest Global conference opens this morning with a Speed Networking session at 9am Pacific…
• $13 Million in Sales Helps Win Amanda Waltz a Major Promotion at DomainAdvisors
  DomainAdvisors Limited has promoted Amanda Waltz to become their new Director of Sales and Acquisiti…
• Someone Filed a UDRP Against Me - Now What?
  If you find yourself asking this question, then a new guest article at DNJournal.com by veteran Inte…
• Sedo CEO Tobias Flaitz Looks Back at His 1st Year on the Job and Ahead to What 2013 Has in Store
  Exactly one year ago today Tobias Flaitz became the CEO at domain industry powerhouse Sedo.com. I ca…
• Webfest Networking: "If You Want to Go Somewhere, Find Someone Who Has Already Been There!"
  The headline above is a famous quote from Robert Kiyosaki, who also said, The richest people in the…
• Estate.com Changes Hands in the 2nd Biggest Sale of the New Year to Top DNJ Sales Chart 
  In the 3rd six figure sale reported in the opening month of 2013, Estate.com has changed hands in a…
• Free Revenue Producing Domains, One Year of Parking Revenue Paid in Advance - For Real?
  Welcome to the new world of parking company promotion! Despite the decline in PPC revenues in recent…
• The State of the Industry: 15 Experts Weigh In on Where We've Been & Where We Are Headed Now
  Every January we have kicked off the new year with a State of the Industry overview featuring a sele…
• Frank Schilling Invites Domain Brokers to Dinner
  Call it an offer you can't refuse or at least one you wouldn't WANT to refuse if you are in the doma…
• Water Night! What It Is and Why You Will Want to Be Part of It if You Are Going to Webfest Global
  Yesterday I ran through a lot of things that will be going on during the upcoming Webfest Global con…
• Beyond Kim Kardashian Webfest Global Show Agenda is Tabloid Fodder Free
  The choice of Kim Kardashian to be the keynote speaker at the Webfest Global conference has generate…
• Kim Kardashian Named Keynote Speaker for the Upcoming Webfest Global Conference
  Well, I have to admit I didn't see this one coming! Oversee.net has selected celebrity/entrepreneur…
• Sedo Posts Year's 2nd Six-Figure Sale to Top This Week's Domain Sales Chart
  Sedo claimed the top spot on this week's Domain Sales Chart after banking $112,651 for the #1 domain…
• Michael Cyger Reaches a Major Milestone as DomainSherpa.com Posts Its 100th Show
  When Michael Cyger launched the video interview site DomainSherpa.com just under two years ago it qu…
• A Tale of Two Markets: Median Domain Prices Rose in 2012 But Total $ Volume Slipped
  The 2012 domain sales season is in the books. We have crunched the numbers for the final quarter and…
• GeoDomain Giant Skip Hoagland Goes on the Warpath - Slaps Chamber of Commerce With Lawsuit
  Skip Hoagland owns one of the world's best geodomain portfolios, including Atlanta.com, BuenosAires.…
• DomainHoldings Co-Founder John Ferber Becomes a Movie Producer! 1st Film Opens Saturday
  DomainHoldings.com Co-Founder John Ferber is a man of many talents. After selling his previous compa…
• Software Company's $375,000 Domain Purchase Tops This Week's Sales Chart
  Week 2 of the 2013 domain sales season produced a very substantial six-figure sale. We learned that…
• Finding Your Niche: How a Laid Off Local TV Reporter Created a New Career for Himself Online
  I have often talked about the boundless world of opportunity offered by the web. It's just a matter…
• Domain Leasing Continues to Gain Converts - NoktaDomains Latest to Get On Board
  While it is true that there is nothing new about domain leasing, I've never seen interest in leasing…
• The Mane in Spain Goes Mainly Down the Drain! Jodi Chamberlain Next to Lose Hair for Charity?
  PPX Chairman Gregg McNair managed to convince a series of male domainers to let him shave their head…
• DomainInvest Rolls Out New Affiliate Program Designed to Boost Hosting.co.uk Business
  DomainInvest.lu, a company co-founded by industry veterans Frederick Schiwek, Markus Schnermann and…
• 1st Week of the 2013 Domain Sales Season Finds 3 DNS Transactions at Top of the Chart
  The 2013 domain sales season is officially underway with the first week of data now in. With the pas…
• Peter Maxymych - The Latest Domain Industry Figure to Make a Big Splash in the Music Business
  One thing that has always impressed me about people in the domain business is how creative they are.…
• Demand Media's Taryn Naidu Comments on Company's Acquisition of Registrar Name.com Today
  In the first major acquisition of the new Year Demand Media announced today that they have acquired…
• DN Journal's First Decade - 2012: The 10th Year of the Ride of Our Lives
  I have been featuring some of the key people and events we have covered over the past decade in a se…
• Silver.com Strikes Gold - Closes 2012 Sales Season in One of the Year's 3rd Biggest Deals
  The 2012 domain sales season has come to a close - and it ended with a bang as Silver.com changed ha…
• DNJ's First Decade - 2011: Predictions We Would Run Out of Things to Write About Prove Wrong
  When I started DN Journal in 2003 people told me, you are going to run out of things to write about…
• DNJ's First Decade - 2010: Conference Wars Continue & Cover Stories Feature Key Players
  The latest in our series of posts highlighting key people and events we have covered in DN Journal's…
• A New Year, a New Beginning - Looking Forward to Moving Onward & Upward With You in 2013!
  Happy New Year! My wish for each of you is that 2013 will be your best year ever. I have a gut feeli…
• DN Journal's First Decade - 2009: Recession Arrives But Domain Investors Hold Their Own
  The latest in our series of Lowdown posts highlighting some of the people and events we have covered…
• A Perfect 10: DN Journal Completes Its First Decade and We Couldn't Have Enjoyed it More - Thank YOU for Making it Possible!
  DN Journal marks its 10th Anniversary on New Year's Day. I always thought it was more productive to…
• Highlights From DN Journal's First Decade: 2008 - Another Big Year Before the Great Recession Arrives
  DN Journal marks its 10th anniversary January 1st. We continue highlights from our first decade with…
• Super Broker & DomainAdvisors President Jeff Gabriel Takes New Position with Frank Schilling's Company
  DN Journal has learned that super broker Jeff Gabriel (the man behind the biggest all cash domain sa…
• Highlights From DN Journal's 1st Decade: 2007 - The Year the Domain Boom Reached New Heights
  Last week I started running a series of highlights from DN Journal's first 10 years - an anniversary…
• "The joy that you give to others, is the joy that comes back to you" - Merry Christmas!
  Somehow, not only for Christmas, But all the long year through, the joy that you give to others, is…
• DNJ-10: Domain Pioneers Up Close & Personal: How Our Cover Stories Evolved Over the Years
  DN Journal will celebrate its 10th anniversary on January 1, 2013. One of the things the publication…
• DNJ-10: Conferences in Tech Meccas Silicon Valley & Seattle Put Domains on The Map
  Here is another set of highlights from DN Journal's first 10 years. After the 2004 T.R.A.F.F.I.C. co…
• Verisign Releases Latest Quarterly Domain Brief - # of Registered Domains Soars 12% in One Year
  Verisign released their latest Domain Name Industry Brief, covering the 3rd quarter of 2012, today.…
• DomainNameSales Goes on a Tear With a Hand in ALL of The Week's 11 Biggest Domain Sales
  It should be a very Merry Christmas at DomainNameSales.com. The domain aftermarket sales platform fo…
• DN Journal's First 10 Years: Revisiting Some Familiar Domain Industry Faces and Places
  2 weeks from today we will be celebrating a milestone - the 10th Anniversary of DNJournal.com. DNJ w…
• Companies & People in the News: Go Daddy, Webfest Global, Roy Flanders & .INFO
  I was away last week for a special trip with my daughter but now I'm back with some catching up to d…
• The Domain Aftermarket Crowns a New 2012 Heavyweight Champion With $2.45 Million Sale
  Sales at the ultra high end of the domain market have been rare this year. Until this past week, onl…
• I'll Be on a Brief Hiatus This Week Taking a Special Trip With My Daughter
  From the time she was a small child my daughter Brittany said she was going to grow up to be a docto…
• Go Daddy Domains and Websites Now on the Warehouse Shelves at Costco.com
  You've got to hand it to Go Daddy - they are everywhere.. Another example of the huge inroads Go Dad…
• Two Names Share Top Spot on This Week's Domain Sales Chart - Four Others Tie for #3
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. Ties were the order of the day with two…
• You Know the Domain King - Now Meet the .BIZ Baron - Email.biz Founder Anshul Goyal
  You know Rick Schwartz as the Domain King but you might not be familiar with the .BIZ Baron - India'…
• Christmas.com Gets a New Lease on Life With Move to Left of the Dot's Sub-domain Platform
  After spending almost a decade as a parked page, the spectacular potential of Christmas.com is final…
• Group That Owns Some of World's Best Domain Names Seeking Development Partners
  World Media Group owns a stunning collection of domain names including World.com, USA.com, Lawyer.co…
• Lapping the Field: Why Legendary Domain Investor Frank Schilling is Out to Change Our World
  5 years ago we published a Frank Schilling profile that became one of our most widely read Cover Sto…
• One of Europe's Top Conferences - Domaining Spain - Opens Registration for April Show
  Domaining 2013 has opened registration for their 5th annual event, coming up April 25-27 in Valencia…
• Domain Aftermarket's Mid Range Back in the Spotlight While the High End Takes a Breather
  This wound up being the only week in November without a six-figure sale being reported. After ten sa…
• New Domain Sales Platform Targets End Users With Pricing Guidance and Quality Names
  There are a lot of well established domain sales venues out there so you might not think there is a…
• Castello Brothers Sign Big Nashville.com Deal Covering Everything From Management to Sale
  The Castello Brothers (Michael and David) have signed a management, development, monetization and sa…
• CEO of Team Internet AG's ParkingCrew Comments on Why Company Went After Elephant Traffic
  In a major move last week Team Internet AG acquired Elephant Traffic and is now integrating Elephant…
• Seven of My Favorite Thanksgiving Sayings (and Sincere Thanks From Me to You)
  Americans are celebrating one of our most meaningful holidays today - Thanksgiving - a day when we p…
• Four 6-Figure Sales Totaling Nearly $1 Million Top This Week's Domain Sales Chart
  We're three weeks into November and all three have been very strong ones for the domain aftermarket.…
• Woman Who Lost Lawsuit for Squatting on Man's Name Forced to Pay Plaintiff's Legal Fees Too
  A lot of people have had UDRPs filed against them or been sued for registering a domain based on a c…
• Guess Who is Heading to Hollywood After Winning Nashville's Musician of the Year Competition
  Last month I told you about a rapidly rising Nashville-based rock trio fronted by singer/songwriter/…
• Attorney & TRAFFIC Co-Founder Howard Neu Takes the Field With a New Domain Legal Team
  T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Conference Co-Founder and veteran domain attorney Howard Neu has just launched a new…
• ICANN Drops a Bomb - New TLD Point Man Kurt Pritz Resigns Due to "Conflict of Interest"
  ICANN CEO Fadi Chehade sent shock waves through the domain community today when he announced the res…
• Twin 100K Sales at Sedo Spearhead Another Strong Week for Domains
  The domain aftermarket's November rally continued this week, led by a pair $100,000 sales at Sedo an…
• Companies in the News: MediaOptions, DomainIndex, Nominet and Telnames
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: MediaOptions Lures a New Business Development exec away from…
• Moving Music/Video Tribute to Veterans Created by Sams Family Members Going Viral
  America will observe Veteran's Day Sunday. The meaning & emotion behind this special day has been ca…
• DN Journal's Top 20 All-Cash Domain Sales Reported Since 2003
  We have never published an all-time top domain sales chart, because we can't vouch for sales reporte…
• One of the Year's Five Biggest Transactions Headlines a Solid Week in the Domain Aftermarket
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. It was an excellent week for the afterma…
• Big Changes at Sedo - Three Co-Founders and Chief Sales Officer Leaving
  Earlier this year Sedo Co-Founder and Former CEO Tim Schumacher left the company that he started 12…
• 3Q-2012 Domain Sales Produce Rise in Median Price & Transactions But Total $ Volume Dips
  A new DN Journal monthly newsletter covering 3Q-2012 domain sales is being emailed to opt in subscri…
• Rick Schwartz Launches New Business Based on "Million Dollar" Domain Names at JointVentures.com
  Rick Schwartz has added a new business to his entrepreneurial portfolio. Schwartz just launched Join…
• Sedo Releases 3rd Quarter Sales Results - Reports Much Stronger Median Sale Prices
  Sedo released their latest quarterly Domain Market Study today, breaking down their sales results in…
• Resetting the Table: T.R.A.F.F.I.C. 2012 Caps a Year of Positive Change in the Conference Game
  After several years of over-saturated domain show calendars, T.R.A.F.F.I.C. 2012 successfully closed…
• How Will Those Big Marchex Domain Sales Revealed Thursday Fit Into DNJournal's Charting System?
  Marchex has released the prices they received in each of their top 500 domain sales over the past fo…
• Marchex Spins Off New Company That Gets Their Domain Assets & Reveals Prices from Their Top Sales
  In a major development today, Marchex announced they are spinning off a new company - Archeo - that…
• The Year's Biggest ccTLD Sale Tops This Week's Domain Sales Chart With Another ccTLD at #3
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. It was a great week for country code dom…
• Adam Dicker Stars in New Video Series & Edwin Hayward Launches Counter Attack on .UK Proposal
  DNForum.com owner Adam Dicker was one of the big hits at the 2012 T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference - now he…
• Domain Name Market in Doldrums? The Back Story on Today's Article in the San Francisco Chronicle
  A new article about the domain aftermarket was published by the San Francisco Chronicle today. I was…
• Sweet Dreams Are Made of This: BREE & David Castello Meet Eurhythmics Star Dave Stewart
  In my last post I told you about the rapidly rising rock trio fronted by BREE (featuring Domain Hall…
• 3-Letter .com Takes Top Spot on This Week's Domain Sales Chart After Selling for $80,000
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. This was a good week for 3-letter domain…
• You've Gotta BREElieve!  New Artist Managed by David Castello is Breaking Out
  Domain Hall of Fame member David Castello returned to the music business in the summer of 2011 when…
• Jacob Fedosky's Fast Track From Teenage Domainer to Corporate Director of Domain Development
  19-year-old Jacob Fedosky started buying and developing domains in high school and continued to do s…
• Rook Media and The Water School Bring Crowd Sourced Philanthropy to Domain Parking
  We have been long time supporters of The Water School, a life saving charitable organization with wi…
• Rebranded Webfest Global & T.R.A.F.F.I.C. to Run 2013 Shows on Revamped Playing Field
  After being re-named Webfest Global, the Oversee.net conference formerly known as DOMAINfest Global,…
• Big Week for ccTLDs as They Take 8 Places on DNJ's Top 20 Chart Including 5 of the Top 10.
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. The .coms, as usual, took the most posit…
• New Protrada Partnership Promotes Domain Investing + Two Industry Veterans Brew Up a New Business
  Protrada.com has made telling mainstream business owners and investors about the value and power of…
• George Kirikos Uncovers 3 Sales Totaling Over $1.1 Million That Top New DNJ Sales Chart
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. You may recall hearing about some big sa…
• Closing Day Photos & Highlights from the 2012 T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Conference
  The 2012 T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference closed Wednesday morning (Oct. 10) with a Farewell Breakfast at t…
• Photos and Highlights from the First Full Day of Business at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. 2012 Monday
  The T.R.A.F.F.I.C. 2012 conference being held on Florida's Fort Lauderdale Beach got down to busines…
• Opening Day Photos & Highlights from T.R.A.F.F.I.C. 2012 Sunday on Fort Lauderdale Beach
  After two days of pre-show networking, the 2012 T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference officially got underway Su…
• Saturday's T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Pre-Show Photos & Highlights from Fort Lauderdale Beach
  The 2012 T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference opens this evening with a 6pm welcoming cocktail party at the oce…
• First Photos and Highlights from the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. 2012 Conference on Fort Lauderdale Beach
  The 2012 T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference in Fort Lauderdale, Beach, Florida doesn't officially open until…
• Two 6-Figure Sales, Including the Year's 2nd Biggest ccTLD Deal Top This Week's Sales Chart
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. The domain aftermarket enjoyed a very so…
• People, Companies & Events in the News: T.R.A.F.F.I.C., Phil Corwin, Verisign & David Castello
  Lots of bases to cover in the Lowdown at DNJournal today including our favorite unsung event at T.R.…
• More Tips on Choosing a Domain Broker From the Guy Who Brokered the Biggest Sale Ever Reported
  In a follow up to our recent Cover Story on domain brokers, Jeff Gabriel, the man who brokered the m…
• Nominet May Offer .UK Domains That Cost 800% More Than .CO.UK - Says It's Not About the Money
  Apparently not a believer in the old axiom, if it's not broke, don't fix it, Nominet, who administer…
• Domain Brokers: How to Choose One and What it Takes to Be a Successful One
  A new Cover Story is out at DNJournal.com. We take a look at the rapidly expanding domain brokerage…
• Afternic Website to Get Major Makeover Next Week + Domain Industry Women Take Center Stage
  Expect to see a much different website if you log in at Afternic around this time next week. The pop…
• Companies in the News: Yahoo, Media.net, Sedo, Go Daddy, NameMedia, Team Internet & Oversee.net
  If company activity in the domain industry over the past 24 hours is any indication, the final quart…
• Platinum.com Strikes Gold - Tops This Week's Chart as One of Year's Five Biggest Domain Sales
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal. This week's sales race was no contest as Pla…
• T.R.A.F.F.I.C. 2012 Releases List of Over 300 Domains to Be Auctioned Off October 8th
  With the 2012 T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference less than 2 weeks away final show details continue to be ann…
• Event Queen Jodi Chamberlain Expands Her Domain With Launch of a Global Executive Network
  Jodi Chamberlain has earned a stellar reputation for producing crowd pleasing industry events. She r…
• Above.com Integrates Domain Monetization, Registration & Sales in a New Domain Investor Platform
  Above.com has undergone a major makeover. The well-known domain services company based in Australia�…
• DOMAINfest Global Gearing Up For Return to Santa Monica, California in February
  The DOMAINfest Global conference will be returning to the oceanfront Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa…
• Where's the Afterparty? At #1 on This Week's Domain Sales Chart!
  No blockbuster sales were reported this past week but a wide assortment of solid mid-range sales wer…
• Back to the Future: Two Geodomain Veterans Return With Plans For a New Conference
  Two veterans from the geodomain space, Former Associated Cities Executive Director Patrick Carleton…
• Google's View of My Hometown - What Are All of These Odd Domains Doing In My Search Results?
  A couple of times each year I go back to the small Midwestern town where I grew up to visit family.…
• Team Internet CEO Jumping with Joy After Landing Axel Kaltz for Key Role at ParkingCrew.com
  Nico Zeifang, the CEO at Team Internet AG is always upbeat, but he was more excited than usual when…
• Webquest's Chad Wright Rings Up a $90,000 Sale to Top This Week's Domain Sales Chart 
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. .Coms enjoyed a banner week sweeping all…
• Gregg McNair Expands Into the Domain Registration Business With Big Move at Internet.bs
  PPX International Chairman Gregg McNair has just added another domain iron to his company's expandin…
• DomainSherpa's Michael Cyger Launching Twitter Based Venture Supported by 275,000 Followers
  Most of you are familiar with Michael Cyger's DomainSherpa.com, one of the web's best domain informa…
• Costco Does Domains - Warehouse Club's Magazine Dispenses Advice From Go Daddy
  I was leafing through the September issue of the Costco member's magazine when I was surprised to co…
• Domain Aftermarket Heats Up With 70 Sales Ranging From $10,000 - $120,000 Over Past 2 Weeks
  The latest domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. This expanded edition covers the past two we…
• Keynote Speaker Named for Next Month's T.R.A.F.F.I.C. 2012 Conference on Fort Lauderdale Beach
  A man who has been referred to as the King of Affiliate Marketing has been chosen as the keynote spe…
• The Jackson Family's Weekend Wedding Had a Distinct Domain Flavor
  The past few days have been a whirlwind surrounding my daughter Brittany's wedding to David McCreery…
• Photos & Highlights from the Rocky Mountain Domain Conference's 2012 Meetup in Denver
  After staging his first Rocky Mountain Domain Conference last year in Denver, Michael Law, assisted…
• Domain Holdings Expands Executive Team Again Bringing Industry Vet Michael Feeley Onboard
  The executive team at Domain Holdings continues to expand with Michael Feeley being added as Vice Pr…
• T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Awards Ballot Deadline is 9PM Tonight
  If you want to cast a ballot in the 2012 T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Awards voting, you have to get your choices…
• New Zealand Set to Launch New Extension, Taking Just 4 Months From Application To Approval
  While the debate over new gTLDs continues, one nation is taking advantage of the autonomy individual…
• Year's 2nd Biggest .Org Sale Tops Chart After .Com's Six-Figure Sales Streak Finally Ends 
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. After 5 straight weeks of 6-figure .com…
• What Does DN Journal, Sex.com and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire All Have in Common?
  Over the years we have been mentioned in numerous national mainstream publications including the Wa…
• M.I.T. Takes Dim View of New gTLDs - Former ICANN Chair Sees No Benefits Whatsoever
  Though they are essentially a done deal the debate over new gTLDs continues with M.I.T.'s prestigiou…
• With 2012 T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Show 48 Days Away Organizers Aim Revamped Website at End Users
  T.R.A.F.F.I.C. organizers have beefed up the show's website, retaining the easy on the eyes exterior…
• People & Companies in the News: .ORG, Michael Mann, T.R.A.F.F.I.C., Zenscrow & Jerusalem.com
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: .ORG continues to grow rapidly, Michael Mann's companies earn…
• Farewell to Max "Americar" Walker - A Domain Industry Treasure Who Left Us Too Soon
  For the past 10 years friendly Australian Max Americar Walker has been one of the regulars at DNForu…
• Another High End Sale at Sedo Extends Industry's Six-Figure Sales Streak to Five Weeks
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. The industry's six-figure sales streak r…
• Escrow.com Forms Strategic Partnership With the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Conference
  With the 2012 T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference less than 8 weeks away, activity is heating up on every show…
• With New Startup Taking Off Morgan Linton & Teammates Decide to Quit Day Jobs & Go For Broke
  Congratulations to Morgan Linton are in order on a couple of fronts today. From a personal standpoin…
• People and Companies in the News: DotGreen Community, Rob Grant & NameMedia
  Today in the Lowdown at DN Journal, background on a new feature story that takes you inside DotGreen…
• After 5 Years Preparing to Run a New gTLD DotGreen Community's Fate Rests in ICANN's Hands
  Founder Annalisa Roger and her team at the DotGreen Community know it will be difficult for a new gT…
• Alan Dunn Joins DomainHoldings as Senior VP & DomainSherpa Adds New Producer Wayne Nelson
  Domain Holdings Group continues to add to an already outstanding management team. Well-known and hig…
• Six-Figure Sales Streak Extended to Four Weeks With Deal At Sedo Topping New DNJ Chart
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com, For the fourth week in a row a six-figur…
• Industry Veteran Victor Pitts Joins Above.com as Director of Domain Services
  Victor Pitts has joined fast-growing domain registrar Above.com as Director of Domain Services. Pitt…
• Sedo Sells Hoteles.es for Over $340,000 -  The Inside Story Behind the International Transaction
  In a deal shepherded by Sedo Senior International Sales Consultant Frank Tillmanns, the company has…
• Michael Castello's Martian Connection - Why the Red Planet's New Rover is His Favorite Robot
  Michael Castello of Castello Cities Internet Network was in our area on a family vacation over the w…
• Sedo Broker Dave Evanson Reports Selling Designers.com for $118,000
  Sedo broker Dave Evanson just posted on his Facebook page that he has wrapped up a $118,000 sale of…
• 6-Figure 2-Letter .Com Sale Handled By Toby Clements Tops This Week's Sales Chart
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. The current streak of six-figure domain…
• Chef Patrick Beams Out of ScienceFiction.com - Braden Pollock Takes Over the Bridge
  There is a new captain on the bridge of the starship ScienceFiction.com. Original co-founder Patrick…
• Companies in the News: GoDaddy, Sedo, ECOP.com, Oversee.net & DomainHoldings
  The new work week is off to a flying start with news on several fronts. The CEO at GoDaddy has stepp…
• Fewer High End Domain Sales in 2Q-2012 Cause $ Volume to Slip But Median Prices Edge Up
  DN Journal's new monthly newsletter is going out to opt in email subscribers today. The newsletter,…
• Scottsdale.com Owner Fred Mercaldo Comments on the Blockbuster Sale of Denver.com
  The 7-figure sale of Denver.com has created quite a buzz in the geo domain community. One of those m…
• New DNJournal Chart Includes Another 6-Figure Sale and One of Year's 10 Biggest ccTLD Sales
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com, For the second week in a row a 6-figure…
• Geo Domain Giant Dan Pulcrano Sells Denver.com to Peter Niederman in 7-Figure Deal
  In a huge geodomain deal, Boulevards New Media Inc., the Silicon Valley-based company headed by CEO…
• Toronto Newspaper Questions Whether Canada's .CA ccTLD Can Survive New gTLDs
  An interesting article in the Toronto Star has a headline asking whether or not Canada's .CA extensi…
• Course Correction: Why Airline Pilot Bob Olea is Now Banking on Domains as Well as Planes
  DN Journal's new July Cover Story is out. It's a fascinating profile of United Airlines pilot/domain…
• Happy Days for .CO But Skeptics Predict Consumers Will Seek .Com Shelter in New TLD Flood
  .CO had a lot to celebrate on the TLD's 2nd birthday today, including 1.3 million registrations in m…
• Hostingcon 2012 Concludes in Boston With Many Domain Industry Faces In the Crowd
  As the home base for a number of domain industry companies and individual entrepreneurs, Boston has…
• DomainNameSales Scores First 6-Figure Sale Reported Since Late June
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. For the first time in four weeks, a six-…
• Companies in the News: Oversee.net, Thought Convergence, Afternic & Dnbiz
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: Oversee.net adds a key new member to their management team, T…
• Domain Registrations Jump 23 Million in 1 Year, .CA Celebrates 25th Birthday + Cool Tool from DomainsBot
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: Worldwide domain registrations soared by more than 23 million…
• A Rare Look at What the Death of a TLD Looks Like: U.S. Agency Shuts Down Kids.us
  R.I.P. Kids.us. The rarely used extension that was created by an Act of Congress in 2003 with the id…
• Escrow.com's Close Call, MHB's History of the Domain Business & Andy Booth's Ascent
  I read three articles this week that I thought were especially interesting & relevant and will remai…
• .ORG Reaches 10 Million Registrations - Here's the Name That Put Them Over the Top
  .ORG has soared to new heights having reached more than 10 million domain registrations. The officia…
• Six-Figure Drought Continues But Four and Five Figure Domain Sales are Flourishing
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. 6-figure sales remained on summer vacati…
• New .INFO Contest Offers Chance to Win a Revolutionary Lytro Camera
  The new Lytro cameras have created a considerable buzz among gadget and photography freaks and Afili…
• SedoMLS Network Expands Again with Addition of Rob Monster's Epik.com
  Domain aftermarket giant Sedo announced the newest addition to the SedoMLS network today with U.S. r…
• Protrada Adds Over 50,000 New Members With Acquisition of DomainFace.com Assets 
  The innovative domain trading platform Protrada.com that debuted last summer just took another giant…
• Facebook Threat to Domains Wanes as Ad Execs Show Diminishing Interest in FB vs. Rest of Web
  During its meteoric rise a lot of people predicted the popularity of Facebook would lower the value…
• .CO.NO Went Live Today After Winning Court Battle With Norway's .NO Registry
  11 years ago Norwegian company Elineweb A.S. acquired the two-letter Norwegian country code domain C…
• Market's Mid-Range Continues to Hum With This Week's Top 20 Sales Totaling Over $440,000
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. For the second week is a row no six-figu…
• T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Offers $150 Ritz Carlton Gift Card to Those Who Register for 2012 Show This Week
  If you are planning to go to the 2012 T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Conference October 7-10 at the Ritz Carlton on…
• Summer's Here and the Time is Right for Domainers at the Meets
  This year's T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference is still 3 months away but domainers in some parts of the U.S.…
• Great Scot! How Tommy Butler Went From Gutting Chickens to Developing Glasgow.com
  A new Cover Story is out at DNJournal.com. Tommy Butler owns and operates Glasgow.com, the well deve…
• Media Battle Royal: In the Race to Influence Consumer Spending the Web Trails But is Gaining Ground
  The Internet, TV, Radio, Newspapers, Magazines & Mobile are all competing in a race to wield the mos…
• A Different Take on New TLDs from the CEO of a Company That Loves .Coms AND New TLDs
  The latest DNJournal.com newsletter is now going out to opt-in subscribers and it has also been post…
• Sedo Serves Up More Data, Moniker/SnapNames Targets China & Sudden Death for Digital Archery
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: Sedo announces a new feature that provides more valuation dat…
• ArtDeco.com Draws Highest Sales Price Reported in the Domain Aftermarket This Week
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. Things were slower than usual at the upp…
• Teen Domainer Brian Diener Co-Founds New Content Production Company at CollegeCopywriters.com
  While still in high school Brian Diener made a name for himself by chronicling his adventures as a d…
• Domain Monetization Companies in the News: DomainHoldings, ParkLogic and Oversee.net
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com domain monetization companies and leaders are in the news incl…
• Complete Videos of Speeches Made by Incoming and Outgoing ICANN CEOs Today in Prague
  ICANN's new CEO, Fadi Chehadé, made a well-received public debut with a speech today at ICANN's 44t…
• ICANN Names a New CEO to Replace Rod Beckstrom - Fadi Chehadé to Take Over by October 1
  ICANN today named Fadi Chehadé as its new CEO replacing Rod Beckstrom who will step down July 1. Th…
• Leading Aftermarket Venues Gain Exposure to New Customers in China + Two Recommended Reads
  If you list domains for sale with two popular aftermarket venues, the AfternicDLS and/or Sedo.com, n…
• MovingCompany.com Arrives at Top Spot on This Week's Sales Chart After Selling for Six Figures
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. The six-figure sale of MovingCompany.com…
• Italian Company Loses Both UDRP & a 2nd Attempt to Take Name Away Through a Lawsuit
  Less than a week after Rick Schwartz scored an important UDRP win against a Brazilian company that t…
• Sedo Predicts What the Ten Most Successful New TLDs Will Be
  Last week when ICANN announced the 1,409 new TLDs that 1,930 applicants are chasing, speculation imm…
• Justice is Served - Brazilian Hijackers Who Attempted to Steal Rick Schwartz's Domain Found Guilty
  Just when I was about to give up on domain owners getting a fair shake in the UDRP system (arbitrato…
• Two ccTLD Sales That Rank Among the Year's Ten Biggest Stand Out on This Week's Chart
  It was a good week for the ccTLDs as three country code domains landed on the upper half of this wee…
• Big Reveal Bares All - Next Step, the Big Wait
  ICANN's Big Reveal was held this morning (U.S. time) in London where the domain name system's oversi…
• Many Domain Investors See Big Reveal as Big Yawn
  Wednesday's Big Reveal Day when ICANN will officially announce who has applied to run what new TLDs…
• Frank Schilling Continues His Transformation from Legendary Investor to Leading Service Provider
  Frank's Schilling's place in domain industry history was secured years ago when he was universally r…
• Another Huge Win for the Web - Consumers Now Say Online is Their Favorite Way to Shop
  Ever since the Internet arrived on the scene I've watched in amazement as the web has steadily overt…
• Toby Clements Closes One of the Year's 3 Biggest Domain Sales to Top New DNJournal Chart
  Toby Clements sells a lot of domains through his popular newsletter but he really outdid himself thi…
• Donuts Inc. Fattens Up on New gTLD Apps Downing Over 25 Dozen in One Sitting
  In my last post I told you about some of the dozens of applications to run new gTLDs that have been…
• Big Reveal Still 2 Weeks Away But New gTLD Applicants Already Spilling the Beans
  Now that ICANN has closed its bug-riddled TLD Application System they have set June 13 as the date f…
• DomainAdvisors Rings Up One of the Year's Four Biggest Domain Sales to Top This Week's Chart
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. DomainAdvisors.com has rung up a lot of…
• DomainSponsor Welcomes One of Their 1st Employees Back Home as Song Signs On
  A lot of companies and good people have come and gone in this business over the years but few came,…
• Industry Pioneer Monte Cahn Joins DomainHoldings Team as Executive and Advisor
  Monte Cahn, the domain industry pioneer who founded Moniker.com in 1999 and served as the popular re…
• Rick & Howard Lock in Dates For Their First Las Vegas T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Conference in 5 Years
  Time flies when you're having fun. When T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Co-Founders Rick Schwartz and Howard Neu take…
• Domain Industry Donors Support Newly Bald Brethren By Giving Over $50,000 to The Water School
  After the antics of one mad barber from Australia, two domain conferences and four scalps collected…
• Two Sales Totaling $160,000 Share Top Spot on This Week's Domain Sales Chart
  For the second week in a row there were enough notable domain sales reported to fill nearly TWO all…
• ICANN Re-Starts Stalled New TLD Application System as New Marketing Firm Enters the Fray
  After being shut down for nearly six weeks due to technical issues, ICANN's TLD Application System (…
• DONA.com Becomes 1st Registrar to Offer UDRP Insurance & ICA Support With Share of Profits
  A new domain registration service has rolled off Domaining.com creator Francois Carrillo's assembly…
• iPhone App Puts Historical Domain Sales Information at Your Fingertips
  Here's an app every domain investor will want to have on their smartphone. Simply called Domain Sale…
• Marriage Made in Heaven: Protrada Adds Appraiso to Their Website Development Platform
  A couple of months ago I told you about a new website appraisal tool that had just been released at…
• Solid Week for Domain Sales With Enough Notable Sales to Fill TWO Top 20 Charts
  It was another solid week for the domain aftermarket led by a 6-figure sale and enough in the 5-figu…
• Bari's Back! Ex Moniker Exec Bari Meyerson Takes Business Development Position at eNom
  Bari Meyerson, a popular domain industry veteran who was a fixture at Moniker.com before leaving tha…
• With 3 of His 5 Daughters Graduating This Week Marc Ostrofsky is Going Plane Crazy
  You will have to forgive domain industry pioneer and best selling author Marc Ostrofsky if he seems…
• New Study From Sedo Shows Rising Domain Sales With Buy Now Most Popular Listing Option
  Sedo has released their latest quarterly Domain Market Study, covering domain sales made on their wo…
• Three Previously Unannounced Six-Figure Sales Set the Pace in a Banner Week for Domains
  Warm weather is returning to most parts of the northern hemisphere and domain sales seem to be heati…
• 2012 DNCruise Officially Scuttled But Chef Patrick May Raise the Anchor Again Next Year
  After two well received voyages in 2010 and 2011, DNCruise, the only domain conference held on a cru…
• Honorary Domainer Lisa Bloom Releases Another Best Seller & Writing Bug Bites Ammar Kubba
  TV personality, author and attorney Lisa Bloom, the fiancée of well-known domain industry figure Br…
• T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Goes Back to Vegas in New Venue + Escrow.com Launches New Tool for Brokers
  After a 3-year hiatus, the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference will return to Las Vegas in the spring of 2013…
• 3 Six-Figure Sales and 66 That Hit Five Figures Headline Busy Fortnight for the Domain Market
  The latest domain sales report from DNJournal.com covers the past two weeks of action in the afterma…
• Some Final Thoughts on Domaining Europe 2012
  We're back from a great week in Spain where the Domaining Europe 2012 conference was held last week.…
• Photos and Highlights From Day 2 Friday & Closing Day Saturday at Domaining Europe 2012
  The Domaining Europe 2012 conference ended Saturday evening in Valencia, Spain with the 4th event in…
• Opening Day Photos and Highlights from the Domaining Europe 2012 Conference
  The Domaining Europe 2012 conference got underway late Thursday afternoon in Valencia, Spain and ope…
• Pre-Show Photos & Highlights From Domaining Europe 2012 in Valencia, Spain
  Diana and I arrived in Valencia, Spain Tuesday evening along with some other early birds who wanted…
• Spain Joins Michael Mann in the Domain Spotlight & Deadline Looms to Protest .Com Contract
  This week's Domaining Europe conference will put Spain in the industry spotlight along with Michael…
• DNJournal Newsletter: Domain Sales Transactions Up 15% in 1Q-2012, Total $ Volume Dips
  The latest DNJournal.com newsletter is going out to opt-in subscribers this morning. In it we break…
• New Book From Domainer/Developer John Colascione Details How to Master Your Website
  One thing that has always impressed me about the domain business is how many creative people are in…
• Moniker Hits the Jackpot - Leads New DNJournal Chart With Year's 2nd Biggest Domain Sale
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. A blockbuster sale at Moniker, the secon…
• BREE on the Verge of Major Breakout With Release of New Video Featuring David Castello
  Despite tremendous success in the domain industry, David Castello couldn't resist returning to his f…
• .US Finally Getting Big Promotional Push From the American ccTLD's Registry - Neustar
  For the past decade many .US buyers have felt that apathy at the American ccTLD's registry had left…
• Moniker Closes Year's 2nd Biggest Domain Sale + ICANN Forced to Delay New TLD Application Deadline
  Moniker.com has closed a major domain sale, one that ranks as the second biggest sale reported so fa…
• Industry Veteran Jim Grace Joins DomainHoldings as Director of Monetization
  DomainHoldings.com continues to add to its staff of seasoned industry veterans, bringing highly rega…
• Market's Mid-Range Makes The Most Noise This Week With Nearly 2 Dozen Solid 5-Figure Sales
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. A trio of .coms in the mid five-figure r…
• Largest IDN Sale on Record Comes to Light - Deal Completed in 2011 Came with $216,000 Price Tag
  We have learned that a deal for a major city IDN geodomain was completed in July 2011 when the final…
• Rick Schwartz Puts Fight Against Reverse Domain Name Hijackers in Business World Spotlight
  As most of you know, a little-known Brazilian company is attempting to use the UDRP process to hijac…
• DomainHoldings CEO Jason Boshoff to Deliver Opening Day Address at Domaining Europe 2012
  The Domaining Europe 2012 conference coming up April 26-28 in Spain has added DomainHoldings.com CEO…
• Independent Operators Trouncing Local Newspapers & TV in Fight for Online Ad Revenue
  If you've been thinking about developing a geo or geo-targeted domain name into you own local media…
• Busy Domain Sales Week Topped by One of the Year's Five Biggest Deals
  Flowers aren't the only things blossoming this spring - domain sales also seem to be busting out all…
• Domain Industry Evangelist to Share Stage With Donald Trump & Anthony Robbins in San Jose
  Protrada.com's Troy Rushton is going to get a golden opportunity to tell the mainstream business wor…
• Philly.com & 2 Philadelphia Newspapers Sold for $55 Million to Local Business & Political Leaders
  The City of Brotherly Love was rocked by a major media deal today when the Philadelphia Media Networ…
• Congratulations to Domain Investor/Developer/Blogger Elliot Silver and His Wife Karen
  Our friend Elliot Silver has enjoyed multiple successes in the domain business but none of them have…
• Google Partners With Florida to Offer State's Businesses Free Websites
  Google and several Florida business development agencies have entered an interesting partnership aim…
• Two 6-Figure Sales & One of Year's 10 Biggest Non .Com gTLD Sales Highlight New DNJ Chart
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. A pair of 6-figure .com sales and one of…
• Free Advice From Domain Attorney Paul Keating + IDNTools Retools & New Look for Escrow.com
  At next month's 2012 Domaining Europe conference in Valencia, Spain noted domain industry attorney P…
• New Free Resource from Francois Carrillo Puts Extensive Domain Information at Your Fingertips
  Francois Carrillo recently launched a new website at Dofo.com (short for domain information) and he…
• People in the News: NameMedia's Jason Miner, ICA's Phil Corwin, Marc Ostrofsky & Lana Del Rey
  We wrap up another busy week in the domain business with news & information from or about some well-…
• Ron Jackson Going Bald? If Gregg McNair Has His Way It Will Happen Next Month in Spain
  Help! Gregg The Mad Barber McNair has his hair clippers out again and I am the one in his sites this…
• 6-Figure Sale at Sedo and Clamor for Country Codes Kept Cash Registers Ringing This Week
  Sedo.com claimed the top spot on our all extension Top 20 Domain Sales Chart this week with a nice s…
• Escrow.com-DomainTools Partnership = Faster Transactions + Domaining Europe Names Keynoter
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: Escrow.com and DomainTools announce a new partnership that wi…
• Clements Brothers Launch New Domain Name Auction House and Brokerage Service
  Two domain industry veterans who are also brothers, David Clements and Toby Clements, have joined fo…
• Brazilian Company Using UDRP as a Burglary Tool in an Attempted Generic Domain Theft?
  This reverse domain hijacking trend is getting out of hand. Not that it comes as a surprise. With th…
• Blockbuster .Net Sale One of Two 6-Figure Deals That Top This Week's Domain Sales Chart
  A blockbuster 3-letter .net sale - the year's biggest non .com gTLD sale reported to date - claimed…
• New Domain Monetization Options Continue to Grow with Latest Advance at DomainPower.com
  New domain monetization options are continuing to sprout. TrafficMedia.com & Protrada's DevName.com…
• Domain Pioneer Mike "Zappy" Zapolin Filming New Documentary With Deepak Chopra
  Mike Zappy Zapolin has been involved in the development and sale of some of the best generic domain…
• ICANN Meeting Opens In Costa Rica With a Warning from Outgoing CEO Rod Beckstrom
  The 43rd ICANN public meeting got underway today in Costa Rica with outgoing President and CEO Rod B…
• Fly Like an Igal: Lichtman Innovates Again With Dazzling Automatic Website Builder at TrafficMedia
  A new Cover Story is out at DNJournal.com. 9 years ago our very 1st Cover Story featured an innovati…
• Total Number of Domains Registered Soars 10% in Past Year + Mountain Rises at NameMedia
  Domain registrations continue to rocket. The latest Verisign Domain Name Industry Brief reports the…
• New Solutions Make Domain Development Much Easier - DevName Launches Latest Option
  One of the more encouraging trends I've seen in recent months is how quickly automated domain develo…
• One of the Year's 3 Biggest ccTLD Sales Tops Another Strong Week for the Domain Aftermarket
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. .Coms dominated the all extension chart,…
• South Florida Domainers Set to Meet March 22 + The Davy Jones Connection to Ari Goldberger
  One of the biggest local domain groups in the U.S., South Florida Domainers, just announced their 1s…
• Inside Sedo: Co-Founder & Former CEO Tim Schumacher Leaves With a Fascinating Look Back
  After more than 10 years leading domain industry powerhouse Sedo, Co-Founder and former CEO Tim Schu…
• Morgan Linton Launches an Innovative Website Appraisal Platform at Appraiso.com
  Morgan Linton, his fiancée and business partner Daina Burnes and a private developer they have been…
• Oversee.net Makes Another Change at the Top - One Co-CEO is Elevated, the Other Exits
  Less than five weeks after naming Debra Domeyer and Scott Morrow Co-CEO's, Oversee.net has made anot…
• Do You Run a Popular Advertiser Supported Website? A Flood of Money May be Coming Your Way
  More and more advertisers are chasing eyeballs that have moved to the web by spending a bigger perce…
• The Year's 1st Reported 7-Figure Domain Sale Headlines a Banner Week for the Aftermarket
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. It took two months to break the ice, but…
• David Castello Launches New Music Publishing Company and Signs His First Writer
  Domain Hall of Famer David Castello made a major return to his music industry roots in 2011 when he…
• With 7 Weeks Left for New gTLD Applications Activity is Heating Up at Consulting Companies
  Those who want to run their own new gTLD registry have to get their applications in before ICANN clo…
• Market's Mid-Range Flexes Its Muscles This Week With Over 3 Dozen Solid Five-Figure Sales
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. While no six-figure domain sales were pu…
• Ron Sheridan's Pixt.com May Revolutionize Photo Sharing + Lana del Rey Wins Major Award
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com, Ron Sheridan's latest venture - an innovative photo sharing p…
• Presentations & Videos from DOMAINfest Global Conference Now Available to All Online
  If you weren't able to attend the 2012 DOMAINfest Global conference that ran January 31 - February 2…
• 6-Figure AfternicDLS Sale Tops This Week's Domain Sales Chart - ccTLDs Take 8 Places
  A very nice 3-letter domain changed hands for 6 figures to top this week's domain sales chart. The a…
• .ORG Continues High Rate of Growth - 2011 Marked the 3rd Straight Year of 9-10% Gains
  The Public Interest Registry (PIR), administrator of the .ORG TLD, enjoyed another growth spurt in 2…
• Afternic Expands Into Russia, the Biggest German Domain Show Begins & WaterShave.org Debuts!
  The AfternicDLS announced its latest expansion today - one that opens up the rapidly growing Russian…
• DOMAINFest Global Review: Industry Changes Prompted a New Direction for the Big Event
  The DOMAINfest Global conference held in Santa Monica, California Jan. 31 - Feb. 2, 2012 was the sho…
• What Could Be Better Than Spring Time in Spain? Join Us in Valencia For Domaining 2012 in April
  We have heard so many good things about the biggest domain conference in Spain, staged annually by D…
• Aftermarket Catches Fire Over the Past Fortnight With 4 Six-Figure Sales and 63 in Five Figures
  I was away last week covering DOMAINfest Global so this week I am bringing you up to date on all rep…
• Who Is The Single Woman David Sams Has Gotten Involved With?
  You might think that National Enquirer like headline is meant to trick you into clicking through to…
• With a Little Help From Einstein, Warren Royal Again Proves the Power of a Great Domain
  Domainers have always preached the value of a category defining .com domain name. Such a name provid…
• CEO Switch at Sedo Was Among the Major Events at DOMAINfest Global Last Week
  During the course of last week's DOMAINfest Global conference, long-time Sedo CEO (and company Co-Fo…
• Closing Day Photos & Highlights from DOMAINfest Global in Santa Monica
  DOMAINfest Global 2012 is now history. The 6th annual show concluded in Santa Monica with a farewell…
• Day 2 Photos & Highlights From DOMAINFest - Oversee Sells Moniker & SnapNames
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com we have Photos & Highlights from the DOMAINfest Global confere…
• Pre-Show and Opening Day Photos & Highlights from DOMAINfest Global in Santa Monica
  The 2012 DOMAINFest Global Conference is underway. While the show officially opened this morning, th…
• Go Daddy Joins SedoMLS, Doors Open at DOMAINfest Today & 2011 Domain Sales Dissected
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: The SedoMLS Network announces a new partnership with registra…
• Reported Domain Sales in 2011 Slide Vs. 2010 - Mostly Due to Impact of Sex.com
  DN Journal's January Newsletter is going out to opt-in subscribers today.
• The State of the Industry January 2012: DN Journal's Biggest Annual Cover Story is Now Out
  For the 8th consecutive year, DNJournal.com kicks off the New Year with our annual State of the Indu…
• .Com Registrations Pass the 100 Million Mark - Final Agenda Set for DOMAINfest Global
  Today in the Lowdown at DN Journal: .Com registrations pass another milestone - the 100 million mark…
• Role Reversal: 6 Non .Com gTLDs and 2 ccTLDs Join 12 .Coms on this Week's Sales Chart
  Last week a half dozen ccTLDs and a pair of non .com gTLDs earned placed on DN Journal's all extensi…
• Europe's Domaining 2012 Conference Announces Additions to the Show Speakers Line Up
  Europe's Domaining 2012 conference, coming up in Valencia, Spain April 26-28, is still three months…
• 3 New Party Venues Ready to Welcome Guests at Next Week's DOMAINfest Global Conference
  The DOMAINfest Global 2012 conference will be running next week in Santa Monica, California. Over th…
• Industry Heavyweights Find New Domain Monetization Gold in Old Vein: Email Addresses
  When I got an email from Chicago.com owner Josh Metnick with a subject line that said Something amaz…
• SOPA Sinks, Water School Founders Retire & David Castello Rocks
  Today in the Lowdown at DN Journal: Wednesday's widespread protest by key Internet websites has kill…
• New Speakers Added to DOMAINfest Global Lineup & Escrow.com Hits the Billion $ Mark
  DOMAINfest Global has added 3 expert speakers to the line up for the upcoming show in Santa Monica.…
• 6 ccTLDS and 2 Non .Com gTLDs Join a Dozen .Coms on DN Journal's Weekly Sales Chart
  Diversity was the keyword for week two of the 2012 domain sales season. As usual, the .coms did domi…
• Muhammad Ali Turns 70 & Brings Back Memories of the Day I Met "The Greatest of All Time"
  Legendary boxing champion Muhammad Ali is celebrating his 70th birthday today. Seeing all of the new…
• DOMAINfest Extends PITCHfest Application Deadline + 1, 2 & 3 Letter .PRO Auction Winding Down
  The deadline to apply for DOMAINfest Global's popular PITCHfest Contest for online entrepreneurs (co…
• Four Domain Conferences Issue Updates & Lana Del Rey Readies for Her National TV Debut
  In today's Lowdown at DNJournal.com we have news from 4 different domain conferences; DOMAINfest Glo…
• Multi-Million $ Marijuana.com Sale Made Possible By Little-Known Service at Escrow.com
  You probably heard about the sale of Marijuana.com (including both the domain name & the popular for…
• 2012 Sales Season Opens With a Flourish: Million Dollar Deal & Two at Six Figures Set the Pace
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. It covers the first week of 2012 sales.…
• People & Companies in the News: Braden Pollock, Patrick Ruddell, ICANN, Sedo & .CO
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: Inside Braden Pollock and Patrick Ruddell's new partnership i…
• Domain Pioneer, Author & Evangelist Marc Ostrofsky Goes Global With New Book Deal
  Marc Ostrofsky, the domain industry pioneer known for the sale of Business.com in a deal valued at $…
• 2011 Domain Sales Season Closes With a Bang Led By a Trio of Six-Figure Sales
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com, encompassing the final week of the 2011…
• Dark Cloud Over ICANN's New gTLD Program as Department of Commerce Steps In
  It looks like ICANN will begin accepting applications for an unlimited number of new gTLDs on schedu…
• Newspaper Giant Gannett Buying 1000s of iPhones & iPads to Help Reporters Gather News
  I love my iPhone as much as anyone but I never envisioned the do everything device might become a ke…
• 2012 is Here Bringing a New Opportunity to Have Your Best Year Ever!
  I love new years (and not just because it is a good excuse to drink champagne though I do give New Y…
• Braden Pollock: Could He Be the Domain Monetization Messiah People Have Been Looking For?
  DNJournal.com rings in the New Year with a new Cover Story. Ever since domain parking revenue went i…
• Miami Police Dept. Lets MiamiPolice.com Drop - Gives Cybersquatter Early Christmas Gift
  Despite warnings from a local citizen that they were about to lose MiamiPolice.com, the Miami Police…
• News Aggregator Domaining.com Organizes Domain Sale to Pay Back Bloggers
  A few top domain blogs and news sites do well financially through advertiser support, but it is a la…
• A .Net Gives That Extension a Rare Win in This Week's Domain Sales Race
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. The next to last week of the 2011 sales…
• Why Prominent Domain Investor Dr. Chris Hartnett is Buying Guns and Ammunition
  Dr. Chris Hartnett is one of the most well-known investors in the domain business. However, Chris ha…
• We Have White Christmases Too: Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah From Florida!
  We had a wonderful Christmas in Florida Sunday. It was 82 degrees & sunny so snow was a little scarc…
• Global Domain Registrations Continue to Grow at a Rapid Clip - Up Over 8% From a Year Ago
  Verisign has released their latest quarterly Domain Name Industry covering the 3rd quarter of 2011.…
• Two Sales That Rank Among the Year's 20 Biggest Top This Week's Domain Sales Chart
  Two high end domain sales, one that soared all the way into the top ten for 2011 and another that re…
• Afilias Announces 2011 .Info Award Winners - Will Hand Out $18,000 in Prize Money
  The operator of the .Info registry, Afilias, has announced the winners of its 2011 .Info Awards reco…
• Lana Del Rey to Appear On Saturday Night Live in Her First American TV Appearance
  The music career of Lana Del Rey continues to explode. Today it was announced that the sultry young…
• 800-Pound Gorilla Go Daddy Gains Even More Weight as Huge Private Equity Investment Closes
  Last summer #1 registrar Go Daddy announced that the company had entered into an agreement with 3 pr…
• .FR Registrations Heading Up as France Opens Its ccTLD to Most Europeans & the UK
  I've always been a fan of ccTLDs that represent the world's major economies, including France's .fr.…
• Hot New Nashville Singer/Songwriter Bree Brings David Castello Back to the Future
  The Castello Brothers, who have both been professional musicians, have become rock stars in the doma…
• Two-Letter .Com Changes Hands for Six Figures to Top This Week's Domain Sales Chart
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. The six-figure sale of a two-letter .com…
• Tebowing.com - Registered Two Months Ago, Getting Millions of Visits, Now Worth Big Bucks?
  Tebowing has become a global sensation with people all over the world striking the prayerful pose th…
• 2012 PITCHfest Contest Offers Opportunity to Find Investors for Your New Online Business Idea
  DOMAINfest Global 2012's PITCHfest Contest on Feb. 1 will give participants a chance to pitch their…
• Fantasy Domaining Contest Offers All Expenses Paid Trip to DOMAINfest Global 2012
  The 2012 DOMAINfest Global conference is less than 8 weeks away. A Who's Who of the domain industry…
• Paul Goldstone Celebrates a 40th Birthday and TWO 15th Anniversaries All in the Same Week
  The domain industry is such a young one that there are very few companies that have been around for…
• A Trio of Six-Figure Sales Sets the Pace in Another Busy Week for the Domain Aftermarket
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. Domain buyers rang up more than two doze…
• Two Debuts Today: Gates Open for .XXX and DomainTools Launches Screenshots.com
  General availability of the new .XXX extension began today, Names are available on a first come, fir…
• Changing of the Guard at Sedo: Co-Founder Tim Schumacher Stepping Down as CEO
  Sedo Co-Founder Tim Schumacher, the pioneering domain industry company's CEO, is leaving that post D…
• Domain King Semi-Retires From Blogging So Businessman Rick Schwartz Can Fully Blossom
  For over a decade now domain industry pioneer Rick Schwartz has been sharing his knowledge & advice…
• Mid Six-Figure Sale of Answer.com Sets the Pace on This Week's DNJournal.com Sales Chart
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. Moniker/SnapNames claimed the top spot o…
• Aftermarket.com Celebrates 1st Anniversary With Big Domain Sale Topping the $500,000 Mark
  Last year at this time Thought Convergence was busy launching their new domain sales platform at Aft…
• Jodi Chamberlain & Dietmar Stefitz to Produce Major Conference Next Spring in Spain
  After producing Spain's biggest domain conference for the past 3 years, Dietmar Stefitz is aiming hi…
• A $90,000 .Com and 8 ccTLDs Share the Spotlight on This Week's Domain Sales Chart
  If variety is the spice of life the past week was a very spicy one for the domain aftermarket as sev…
• The Domain Family Loses a Well-Known Friend But His Loving Spirit Will Live On
  Michael & Judi Berkens have lost their beloved Yorkie Bandit who passed away over the weekend. At Tr…
• Michael Berkens Talks About 450K Meet.me Sale & Other Hot Topics in DomainHoldings Newsletter
  DomainHoldings.com recently began publishing a free newsletter that has been providing a lot of inte…
• 3 Sales Totaling $1.25 Million Top This Week's Chart - ccTLDs Ring Up 4 of the 5 Biggest Sales
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. It was a big week with two of the year's…
• Amazon Fires Up Tablet Sales But What Does Another App Platform Mean for Domains?
  With Amazon's release of their new Kindle Fire model on Monday, tablets are again the talk of the to…
• Time to Climb: Deadline Looming For Domainers Who Want to Take on Mount Kilimanjaro
  Next spring some adventurous people with good hearts from the domain industry will take part in a cl…
• Is It Too Late to Make Money in the Domain Business? Ask the Guys Who Just Sold Meet.me
  I am frequently asked whether or not it is too late to make money in the domain business? Obviously,…
• Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone to Deliver Keynote Speech at DOMAINfest Global 2012
  Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone will deliver the keynote speech at the 2012 DOMAINfest Global conferenc…
• Five 50K+ Sales Give Moniker/SnapNames Top Spots on This Week's Domain Sales Chart
  Solid five-figure sales were abundant this week with almost enough to fill TWO Top 20 charts in the…
• $18,000 in Cash Prizes Now Up For Grabs in 2011 .Info Awards Contest + .XXX Landrush Gets Underway
  The 5th Annual .Info Awards competition is now underway with more prize money than ever before ready…
• Left of the Dot Media Taps Two Domain Industry Veterans to Strengthen Their Board
  Left of the Dot Media Inc., fresh off a nice geodomain deal with Oahu.com last month, is back in the…
• Sedo Spots Some Interesting Sales Trends in Their Latest Quarterly Domain Market Study
  Sedo's latest quarterly Domain Market Study came out Wednesday and, as always, it is packed with int…
• One of Year's 10 Biggest Sales Leads a Pack of 6-Figure Deals to the Top of New DNJ Chart
  The big boys came out to play this week giving the domain aftermarket four six-figure sales, includi…
• Impressive Protrada Platform Attracts $3 Million Investment in Parent Company Winged Media
  Winged Media, a rapidly growing domain technology and monetization company with offices in Australia…
• .XXX Sunrise Ends - ICM Registry Pleased With Results and Looking Forward to Land Rush 
  The ICM Registry announced today that more than 80,000 applications for new .xxx domain names were r…
• Overnight Sensation?: Domainer's Daughter Lana Del Rey Featured in New Rolling Stone
  I've been telling you for the past few years that Lizzy Grant (stage name Lana Del Rey), the daughte…
• 3Q-2011 Domain Sales A Mixed Bag: Total $ Volume Rises From 2010 But Median Prices Slip
  A new DN Journal newsletter is going out to opt in subscribers today. The publication is also availa…
• After a Domain Conference Shakeout T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Shines in 2011 Show on Fort Lauderdale Beach
  A new Cover Story at DNJournal.com is a comprehensive review of this month's T.RA.F.F.I.C. 2011 conf…
• Proposed New Legislation Could Put You Out of Business After a Single Complaint Letter
  ICA Legal Counsel Phil Corwin has sounded an alarm that should make the hair on the back of your nec…
• Biggest Numeric Domain Sale Ever Reported Reigns On This Week's Domain Sales Chart
  The largest numeric domain sale ever reported crushed the aftermarket competition this week to lead…
• DomainsBot Gets a Major Upgrade + An Update from the ICANN Meeting Underway in Dakar
  A new version of the popular DomainsBot domain name suggestion tool went live today, making it easie…
• The Work Week Can Wait, I'm Still Savoring a Very Special Sunday!
  Sunday was such a great day I'm not quite ready to let it go. The day tied together two ends of my p…
• 42nd ICANN Meeting Opens Sunday in Senegal - ICA's Phil Corwin Among Those to Attend
  The 42nd International ICANN Meeting gets underway Sunday in Dakar, Senegal. The introduction of new…
• Domain Legend Garry Chernoff Rings Up the Week's Two Biggest Domain Sales 
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. Legendary domain investor Garry Chernoff…
• Closing Day Photos & Highlights from T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Fort Lauderdale Beach
  I'm back home after a wonderful week on Fort Lauderdale Beach for the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference that…
• Monday & Tuesday Photos and Highlights from T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Fort Lauderdale Beach
  In my last post from the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Fort Lauderdale Beach conference yesterday, I signed off wit…
• DN Journal's Opening Day Photos & Highlights From T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Fort Lauderdale Beach
  Rain forced outdoor activities scheduled on the opening day of the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Fort Lauderdale co…
• More T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Pre-Show Highlights from Fort Lauderdale Beach: Conference Opens Tonight
  DN Journal has T.R.A.F.F.I.C. pre-show photos highlights from Friday & Saturday at Fort Lauderdale B…
• T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Pre-Show Photos & Highlights: The First Post From Fort Lauderdale Beach
  Guests began arriving in Fort Lauderdale Beach Thursday in preparation for 2011's only T.R.A.F.F.I.C…
• Off to Ft. Lauderdale Beach for T.R.A.F.F.I.C. and a Reunion with Lana Del Rey's Dad
  I'm heading off to Ft. Lauderdale Beach today so I can get settled in at the Ritz Carlton before the…
• Six-Figure Sales Returned This Week Including The Year's Biggest Non .Com gTLD Deal
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. Six-figure domain sales returned this we…
• Left of the Dot Launches First GeoDomain & Darren Cleveland's City Advertising Makes Inc. 500
  Two well-known figures in the domain industry have a lot to celebrate today. Left of the Dot Media C…
• Paul Goldstone & Morgan Linton Partner to Provide Free Educational Videos at iGoldRush.com
  Paul Goldstone and Morgan Linton have teamed up to make a monthly series of free educational videos…
• Inside Domainerwiesn (Domainer Oktoberfest in Munich): Germany Shows Us How It's Done!
  If I could have been two places at once I would have loved to have been in Munich, Germany last week…
• GeoPublishers.com Expo Debuts on the GeoDomain Stage With an All-Star Cast in Chicago
  The first ever GeoPublishers.com Expo was held last weekend in Chicago with some of the world's top…
• T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Ft. Lauderdale Beach Preview: Here Is What's In Store at the Shore
  Just 10 days from now, on Sunday evening, Oct. 16, one of the most highly anticipated T.R.A.F.F.I.C.…
• Public Six-Figure Sales Absent This Week But Solid Five-Figure Sales Still Abundant
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. Just one week after one of the best doma…
• Sedo Adds Domain Industry Veteran Frank Michlick to the SedoMLS Team
  Sedo has added a prominent new member to their SedoMLS team. Frank Michlick has come on board to hel…
• GeoPublishers.com Expo Provides a Wealth of Information During Weekend Run in Chicago
  I'm back from the first ever GeoPublishers.com Expo that was held in Chicago over the weekend. The e…
• Domainers to Meet in Europe, Key Vote Coming Up For .AU & .CA Gets Its Own Domain Forum
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal: Notes on some interesting domain news from around the world inclu…
• First Week of Autumn Accompanied By Surge in the Domain Aftermarket: Quartet of Six-Figure Sales Lead the Charge
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. Autumn has just arrived and the first we…
• DOMAINfest Global to Serve Up New Menu of Nightspots at Next Conference in Santa Monica
  When the DOMAINfest Global conference returns for its 2012 run Jan. 31-Feb. 2 in Santa Monica, the e…
• David Sams Was Hailed in Hollywood But a Sudden Setback Put Him on a More Rewarding Path
  New DN Journal Cover Story: David Sams won 9 Emmy Awards as a wildly successful TV producer in Holly…
• Author & Well-Known Google Critic Scott Cleland Added to Speaker's Lineup for Traffic 2011 
  With the 2011 T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference now less than three weeks away (Oct. 16-19 on Fort Lauderdal…
• Final Agenda Released For the 1st GeoPublishers.com Expo Next Week in Chicago
  Geodomain investor/developers will be gathering in Chicago late next week for the first ever GeoPubl…
• ccTLDs Take Two of the Top Three Places on This Week's Domain Sales Chart
  The biggest Australian ccTLD sale reported to date set the pace in the domain aftermarket this past…
• TrafficMedia Signs Small Business Domain Development Deal With $5 Billion Wall Street Firm
  TrafficMedia.com, a one stop web solutions shop spearheaded by domain industry pioneer Igal Lichtman…
• Final Voting for .CA Board of Directors Opens This Week - We Support Frank Michlick
  An important week-long election gets underway in Canada this week. Voting that will select four new…
• The Wire to Wire, Ship to Shore Review of DNCruise 2's Delightful Voyage Through the Caribbean
  DN Journal's comprehensive review of DNCruise 2 (with previously unseen photos & untold details), is…
• Oversee.net Cuts 13% of Staff & The Deck is Reshuffled at DomainAdvertising.com
  The one constant you can always count on in the domain industry is change. This summer we've seen th…
• Rick Latona is Back - He Bags the Biggest Domain Sale Reported Over the Past Two Weeks
  The last many of you heard, Rick Latona had sold his domain sales newsletter to partner Toby Clement…
• The Water School Announces 3rd Climb of Mount Kilimanjaro + Nat Cohen Unveils New Blog
  Several dozen domain investors and industry executives helped raise funds for one of their favorite…
• DNCruise 2 Delivers Big Dividends For Attendees on Last Week's Voyage to Grand Cayman & Cozumel
  I've just returned from the second annual DNCruise conference and this year's event succeeded in top…
• DNCruise Leaves Port From a City Mourning the Untimely Loss of Its Most Beloved Citizen
  The 2nd edition of DNCruise - the only domain conference held on a cruise ship - gets underway today…
• Forecast: SMBs to Spend MOST of Their Marketing Budgets Online By 2015 + DX.com is Sold
  As further evidence that we are all in the right line of work, local media experts BIA/Kelsey are fo…
• Global Domain Registrations Show Big Gains Jumping Nearly 9% From a Year Ago
  Verisign's latest Domain Name Industry Brief reports that total domain registrations soared 8.6% fro…
• The Year's 2nd Biggest ccTLD Sale Tops This Week's DN Journal Domain Sales Chart
  After having just one name on last week's all extension Top 20 Sales Chart the country codes were ba…
• How Category Defining Domains Are Helping Jesse Stein Build an E-Commerce Powerhouse
  The August Cover Story is out at DNJournal.com. Jesse Stein and his Florida based company,Triton Web…
• Hurricane Irene Pays an Unwelcome Visit to Domainers Along the Eastern Seaboard
  Over the weekend, Hurricane Irene went on a destructive tear up the Eastern seaboard that affected m…
• Left of the Dot Media Claims a Major Success With Their New Method of Domain Monetization
  Left of The Dot Media (LOTD) created a lot of buzz when the new domain monetization company introduc…
• Pair of Six-Figure Sales Lead This Week's DN Journal Domain Sales Chart
  6-figure sales were missing in action last week but players in the high end of the market returned t…
• 5 Conferences Scheduled in Next 8 Weeks + Sedo Adds New Member to Management Team
  There were far fewer domain conferences in the first half of this year than we've seen in the recent…
• Domainers Going Back to Africa This Fall to See The Water School's Life Saving Work in Person
  PPX International Chairman Gregg McNair will be leading a group of domainers back to Africa this fal…
• Domain Broker Media Options Expands Into Daily Deal Space With DX.com
  You are probably familiar with Andrew Rosener's domain brokerage company Media Options. The company…
• Former ICANN Staffer Says Organization's CEO Rod Beckstrom was Fired
  ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom announced in a Twitter post Tuesday that he would be leaving the organizatio…
• .Coms Take 16 of 20 Places on the Latest Weekly DNJournal.com Domain Sales Chart
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. SelfEmployed.com set the pace as the .co…
• Scott Day & Jay Chapman Co-Found New Foundation to Foster Internet Innovation & Creativity
  Digimedia Founder Scott Day, one of the domain industry's early pioneers, has launched a new endeavo…
• Visiting Domainers Made it a Special Weekend on Florida's Gulf Coast
  The hotbed for domaining in Florida is located along the Sunshine State's southeast coast, but Flori…
• Industry Leader Jeremiah Johnston Leaves COO Role at Sedo to Open Private Legal Practice
  One of the domain industry's key executives, Jeremiah Jonhston, has left his COO role at Sedo to ope…
• DOMAINfest Global Will Return in Jan. 2012 - the Playboy Mansion Party Will Not + A DNCruise Update
  The DOMAINfest Global conference has set the dates for their 2012 show in Santa Monica, California.…
• 6-Figure Sale of eSignature.com Puts DomainGuardians on Top of New DNJ Sales Chart
  Veteran domain investor Roy Flanders called on Mike Robertson at DomainGuardians to broker eSignatur…
• Silicon Valley Without the Silicon - Tech Enclave Can Also Boast of Natural Beauty & Endless Attractions
  Diana and I are back after spending the past week in California's tech Mecca, Silicon Valley. Our so…
• Network Solutions - The First Domain Name Registrar - Acquired by Web.com
  Web.com, a leading provider of internet services and online marketing solutions for small and medium…
• A Pair of $200,000+ Sales Set the Pace in the Domain Aftermarket This Week
  A pair of six-figure sales totaling more than half a million dollars took the top two spots on DN Jo…
• AfternicDLS Goes Mobile & Nominations Now Being Accepted for Annual Traffic Awards
  The AfternicDLS has become the first domain aftermarket venue to roll out a mobile phone application…
• 2Q-2011 Domain Sales Jump 20% from Year's Opening Quarter
  2011 domain sales got off to a slow start with no 7-figure sales in the opening quarter of the year.…
• U.S. Officials Arrest New York Man & Seize 16 Domains Allegedly Used to Sell Counterfeit Goods
  Since the summer of 2010 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has seized 141 domain names…
• Oversee.net President & CEO Jeff Kupietzky Stepping Down as Family Plans Move to Israel
  After five years with Oversee.net, the past two-and-a-half as the company's President and CEO, Jeff…
• Traffic Co-Founder Howard Neu Enters the Parking Business - But Not the One You Think!
  Parking has been a staple of the domain business for the past decade so it probably won't surprise y…
• Sedo Closes Year's Biggest ccTLD Deal To Top This Week's Domain Sales Chart
  It was an excellent week for the domain aftermarket as we saw the year's biggest ccTLD sale - the th…
• Morgan Linton Launches DomainTheft.org in Effort to Stem Stolen Name Sales
  Domain investor/developer Morgan Linton has launched a new service at DomainTheft.org aimed at helpi…
• People & Events in the News: Marc Ostrofsky, Adam Dicker, Lizzy Grant & DOMAINfest NYC
  Today in DN Journal's Lowdown...What does new Cover Story subject Marc Ostrofsky have in common with…
• Born for Business: How Marc Ostrofsky Went From a Lemonade Stand to the Best Seller List
  Marc Ostrofsky's best selling book put domains in the mainstream media spotlight and it's not the 1s…
• It's Official - Domain Thief Daniel Goncalves Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison in Precedent Setting Case
  Last December I told you that a convicted domain thief named Daniel Goncalves would likely be spendi…
• Big Investment Helps Domain Holdings Recharge Domain Development Service at DomainPower.com
  Fueled by a new $2.9 million venture capital investment the Domain Holdings Group is charging into t…
• Sedo Strikes Oil With Sadara.com to Take Top Spot on DN Journal's Weekly Domain Sales Chart
  Sedo claimed the pole position on our latest weekly all extension Top 20 Domain Sales Chart with Sad…
• TRAFFIC Calls on Bill Karamouzis to Keynote & Ron Jackson Will Speak at GeoPublishers Expo
  The agendas for two key domain conferences coming up in October are shaping up nicely. T.R.A.F.F.I.C…
• Ex-ICANN Chairman Jumps to New gTLD Job, Google Adopts .CO & Doors Open in Domainsville
  Peter Dengate Thrush, who was ICANN's Chairman of the Board until stepping down from that position l…
• New Domain Sales, Financing & Analysis Tools Show Industry Innovation Is Alive and Well
  CAX.com, Zenscrow & Sedo have rolled out some cool new domain services that should have a positive i…
• Verisign Jacks Up .Com and .Net Prices Yet Again
  In yet another painful reminder of how egregiously ICANN sold domain registrants down the river in t…
• New Protrada.com Platform Makes Acquiring, Managing & Monetizing Domains a Breeze
  Time is our most valuable asset and the impressive new Protrada.com platform that debuted tonight ma…
• 6-Figure Private Sale Takes Top Spot on This Week's Domain Sales Chart at DNJournal.com
  Owning Minus.com turned out to be a big plus for Denver-based domain investor Brian Wick. He just ba…
• Domain Industry Sole Men Complete 330-Mile, 29-Day Barefoot Walk in Bali
  UK domainer Robert Epstone (a former manager of the seminal rock band T Rex) and fellow Rotarian Bea…
• South Florida Domainers Group Ready to Reconvene on the Intracoastal Waterway
  One of the most active local domain investor/developer groups in the U.S. has another exceptionally…
• Domain Industry Pioneer & Best Selling Author Marc Ostrofsky Shines On TV Again Today
  Domain industry veteran Marc Ostrofsky is the best selling author of Get Rich Click!, a hot new book…
• Year's Biggest Deal To Date Tops Latest DNJournal Domain Sales Chart
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com (this expanded report actually covers two…
• Castello Brothers Moving HQ to Nashville, DNForum Goes Mobile & Marc O. Returns to The View
  Castello Cities Internet Network, the corporate entity that administers the Castello Brothers' blue…
• Back From My Longest Break From the Domain Business In a Decade!
  Since entering the domain industry in 2002 rarely has a day gone by that I haven't been immersed in…
• Chance to Get Reduced Rate for Highly Anticipated T.R.A.F.F.I.C. 2011 Show Ends Thursday
  The 2011 T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference, coming up October 16-19 at the fabulous oceanfront Ritz Carlton…
• With DNCruise II Just 10 Weeks Away It's Time to Book Passage - Rates Go Up July 1
  With DNCruise II just over 10 weeks away time is running out to get the best rates for the world's o…
• Year's 2nd Biggest Non .Com Sale Is One of Three 6-Figure Deals Atop New DN Journal Sales Chart
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. Three 6-figure sales set the pace, inclu…
• Contract to Sell Social.com for $2.6 Million Signed in Deal Co-Brokered by Moniker & Marksmen
  A contract to sell Social.com for $2.6 million has been signed in a deal co-brokered by Moniker.com'…
• ICANN's New TLD Program - Will it Be A Successful Moon Launch or Another Train Wreck?
  I will likely benefit from new TLDs as new registry operators buy ads to market their extensions. Th…
• The Continuing Adventures of the Domain Aftermarket: Return of the 6-Figure Sale
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. After 2 weeks without a 6-figure sale, a…
• Photos and Highlights from the 2011 DOMAINfest Europe Conference In Barcelona
  The 2011 DOMAINfest Europe conference was held last week in Barcelona, Spain. The event, put togethe…
• Michael Mann to Offer Advice on How to Dominate Your Marketplace in Upcoming Free Webinar
  Michael Mann, who co-founded BuyDomains (and later sold the company to NameMedia) will be presenting…
• Free Sedo Webinar to Present the Top 5 Domain Negotiation Dos and Donts
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: We tell you how you can reserve a seat at an upcoming free Se…
• Marc Ostrofsky Put Domain Names in The National Spotlight on ABC-TV's "The View" Today
  Domain industry veteran and newly published author Marc Ostrofsky was on ABC-TV's hit show The View…
• Veteran Domain Investor/Developer Marc Ostrofsky Will be on National TV Thursday (June 9)
  Domain industry pioneer and author of the new best selling book Get Rich Click!, Marc Ostrofsky, wil…
• An Abbreviated Holiday Week is Accompanied by Lighter Domain Sales
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. The past week included America's Memoria…
• DOMAINFest Europe Opens - Latonas.com & Podcast.com Re-Launch & Zappy Goes Big Again
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: the DOMAINfest Europe conference gets underway in Barcelona,…
• Another Coup for .CO: A's/Raiders Stadium Renamed O.co Coliseum + Sole Men Begin Barefoot Walk
  .CO's series of successes continued today when Overstock.com announced the company is renaming itsel…
• New Wave of Domain Monetization Companies Pose Threat to the Old Guard
  It's no secret that PPC earnings have fallen off a cliff the past couple of years. A lot of domain o…
• CO-lossal Achievement: 1 Million .CO Domains Registered in Less Than a Year
  Though the .CO Registry staged its global launch less than a year ago (in July 2010) it has already…
• Domain Aftermarket Flexes Its Mid-Range Muscles With More Than 40 Five-Figure Sales This Week
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. This was an unusual week for the afterma…
• Attempt to Silence Prominent ICANN Critic George Kirikos Fails as Legal Proceeding is Withdrawn
  If you are a domain owner odds are you owe George Kirikos a thank you. His monitoring of ICANN matte…
• After Making a Fortune With Domains Jan Barta is Out to Conquer the Rest of the Business World
  26- year-old Elephant Orchestra Co-Founder Jan Barta has built a business empire that now stretches…
• Industry Pioneer Michael Mann Will Tell You How to Beat the Competition in a Free Webinar Thursday
  Domain industry pioneer Michael Mann, who co-founded BuyDomains (and later sold the company to NameM…
• Hunger for Domain Names Continues to Grow as Global Registrations Jump 8% Over Last Year
  The latest quarterly Verisign Industry Brief shows demand for new domain names continues to grow. 4.…
• Two of the Year's 10 Biggest Domain Sales Take Top Spots on This Week's Chart at DNJournal.com
  The domain aftermarket enjoyed a very solid outing this week, generating two of the year's ten bigge…
• The Carnage Continues: With the Web Continuing To Rise Magazines Lose Millions of Readers
  When talking about how the Internet is siphoning readers and viewers away from traditional media, th…
• John Ferber's Domain Holdings Helps Zappy Zapolin's Silver.com Reach Its Full Potential
  In a model case of well executed domain development and monetization, Domain Holdings, the new compa…
• DotcomAgency's Ian Andrew Gets $358,000 for 33.com in Deal Brokered by DomainAdvisors
  Over the years Britain's Ian Andrew has sold hundreds of generic domain names through his company, D…
• .PRO Names New CEO Who Helped Get .INFO Off the Ground - Plus Another Coup for .CO
  RegistryPro, operator of the .PRO registry has a new CEO. The company has hired one of the original…
• Year's First Seven-Figure Sale Tops This Week's Domain Sales Chart at DNJournal.com
  It has been a long time coming, but finally - four and half months into the 2011 domain sales season…
• In a Constantly Changing Domain Industry Individual Lives Are Undergoing Big Changes Too
  The domain business NEVER stands still and while the overall industry is constantly reinventing itse…
• Small Businesses Flocking to Social Media But Websites Remain Their Top Marketing Tool
  There has been considerable debate over whether or not social media would one day supplant domains/w…
• Taryn Naidu Moves Up at Demand Media - Named Executive VP & General Manager of eNom
  Domain industry veteran Taryn Naidu has been named Executive Vice President for Registrar Services a…
• Executive Re-Alignment at EVO Media/DevHub Gives the Company TWO Presidents
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: EVO Media Group, best known for their DevHub domain developme…
• Teen Domainer Brian Diener Wins $10,000 College Scholarship in GoDaddy Essay Contest
  I had the pleasure of meeting impressive teenage domain investor Brian Diener a few weeks ago in Sou…
• AfternicDLS Solves Aftermarket Puzzle to Claim Top Two Spots on This Week's Sales Chart
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. We saw one of the year's three biggest s…
• New Ploy From Overreaching TM Interests Aims to Make It Easier to Take Away Your Domains
  I've always said one of the biggest threats to domain owners are attempts by covetous parties to get…
• 1Q-2011 Domain Sales Rise Slightly Vs. 1Q-2010 Despite Absence of 7-Figure Blockbusters
  A new monthly DN Journal newsletter is being emailed to opt in subscribers this weekend (and is also…
• Messy Divorce: Moniker Founder Monte Cahn's Lawsuit Against Oversee Could Get Ugly
  A domain industry version of Clash of the Titans was set in motion Wednesday when Moniker.com founde…
• Trio of Six-Figure Sales Spearhead Another Solid Week For the Domain Market
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. Three six-figure sales and rumors of a p…
• 2nd Generation Domainer Heather Hartnett Stars on Heather.TV + $20,000 Up For Grabs in .Biz Contest
  Several offspring of well-known domainers are making it big on their own. One of the most successful…
• Ostrofsky Book "Get Rich Click!" Debuts at #1 + More Events, People & Companies in the News
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com:: Marc Ostrofsky's new book Get Rich Click! has soared to #1 o…
• Domain Pioneer Marc Ostrofsky Tells Us About His New Book That Hits Stores on Monday
  Not long after I met domain pioneer Marc Ostrofsky for the 1st time, he told me he was working on a…
• Toby Clements Takes Over Rick Latona Domain Newsletter - First Edition Went Out Today
  Earlier this month Rick Latona announced that he and long time partner Toby Clements were dividing u…
• Year's Best Sale + Best 2011 ccTLD Sale & 2nd Best Non .Com gTLD Sale Top DN Journal Chart
  This was quite a week for the domain aftermarket as we saw not only the biggest sale of the year to…
• New DN Journal Cover Story Profiles the Secret Millionaire + More DOMAINfest Europe Details
  Yesterday I mentioned that I was wrapping up work on a new Cover Story that would be released today.…
• How John Ferber Sold His Company for $495 Million and Why He Loves the Domain Business Now
  Few (if any) people in the history of the domain industry have entered the business accompanied by t…
• People & Events in the News: Sai Pola, Playboy Mansion Illness, Juan Calle & David Harry
  It has been a busy few days here so I've had a few items pile up on my desk that I wanted to share w…
• The Big Question Now: Where Does the New GeoDomain Trade Association Leave Associated Cities?
  A new non-profit trade association & expo serving the geodomain industry - GeoPublishers.com - launc…
• Huge GeoDomain News: Industry Leaders Launch New Non-Profit Trade Association & Expo
  DN Journal Exclusive: Some of the biggest names in the geodomain world have joined forces to launch…
• Christmas Comes Early at Sedo - A 6-Figure Sale There Tops This Week's Domain Sales Chart
  Christmas is still eight months away but a buyer at Sedo couldn't wait to get their hands on the Spa…
• Big Payday for Bill Karamouzis as Former DN Journal Cover Boy Sells His Company
  Major congratulations go out today to Bill Karamouzis (who was featured in our March 2010 Cover Stor…
• Update From Health Officials on Playboy Mansion Illness Outbreak Leaves Unanswered Questions
  On Friday L.A. public health officials released preliminary results from their investigation into th…
• How Much Traffic Is Social Media Likely to Send Your Site? New Research Provides the Answer
  Most domain industry bloggers are taking advantage of social media outlets like Facebook and/or Twit…
• Two More 6-Figure Sales and Six ccTLD Sales Take Places on This Week's Top 20 Chart
  For the 2nd week in a row a pair of 6-figure sales set the pace on DN Journal's all extension Top 20…
• Rescheduled Domain Madness 3 Auction Ready to Go Wednesday Afternoon
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: Technical issues blew up last week's Domain Madness 3 live au…
• Writer Apologizes for Squatters Comment As Investor Makes Compelling Case for Domains
  A BusinessInsider writer who authored an otherwise balanced account of the domain business has apolo…
• Business Insider Tells Readers Why Paying Thousands for a Domain Name May Be a Smart Move
  Today in The Lowdown at DNJournal.com: A columnist for mainstream business magazine Business Insider…
• Pair of 6-Figure Transactions Including Year's 2nd Biggest Sale Top This Week's Sales Chart
  It was another solid week for the domain aftermarket with two of the year's biggest sales to date ge…
• Jodi Chamberlain Named President of TeamLauncher.com - New Outsourcing Firm Based in Manila
  Jodi Chamberlain has been named President of a new full time staff leasing company. Many of you know…
• The Rest of the Story: What We Did in South Florida AFTER the Secret Millionaire's Party
  We started a 4-day visit to South Florida at a party hosted by Secret Millionaire John Ferber in Boy…
• The Lowdown on a Sedo Charity Auction, Latonas.com, ParkLogic.com & DomainSherpa.com
  In today's Lowdown, I'll tell you about a special charity auction that gets underway Thursday on Sed…
• BIG Week for Domain Sales Led By Castello Brothers 6-Figure Sale + 3 More at That Level
  Action in the domain aftermarket has been a bit slower than expected in the opening quarter of 2011,…
• 5 Years of Painstaking Development Produces New Standard in Domain Management
  ParkLogic Founder Michael Gilmour quietly accumulated a half million domains under management throug…
• ABC-TV Put Domain Holdings Co-Founder John Ferber in the National Spotlight Sunday Night
  I hope you had an opportunity to watch ABC-TV's latest episode of Secret Millionaire that aired last…
• How Domain Holdings Is Turning Tier 1 Generic Domains Into Fully Developed Businesses
  When John Ferber, Chad Folkening & Erik Simons teamed up to found Domain Holdings Group last year, b…
• After Successful 2010 Debut in Prague DOMAINfest Europe Returns With June Show in Barcelona
  The 2011 domain conference schedule continues to shape up with Oversee.net confirming the dates and…
• Look Up in the Sky! It's a Contest! It's a Conference! It's A Live Auction! No! It's Domain Madness!
  With the country fixated on college basketball's March Madness at this time each year, our friends a…
• The Year's 7th Reported 6-Figure Sale Sets the Pace on This Week's Domain Sales Chart
  Blockbuster sales have been scarce so far this year. With the opening quarter of 2011 drawing to a c…
• If You Missed DOMAINfest Global (Or Want to Re-Visit Key Sessions) Videos Are Now Online
  Even though DOMAINfest Global drew a record crowd this year, many who would like to have been at the…
• ICA's Phil Corwin Joins Forces With Greenberg & Lieberman + Major Expansion at AfternicDLS
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: Washington D.C. based Greenberg & Lieberman is building an in…
• Chef Patrick's WhoIs Privacy Breach Ignites Blogging Brouhaha But What Happens Next?
  On Tuesday Rick Schwartz published an item on his blog naming Chef Patrick as the Moniker employee w…
• .BIZ Tops All Extensions on This Week's Sales Chart - Five of Top Six Sales Are Non .Coms
  This has to be one of the most unusual weeks we've ever seen in the domain aftermarket. The often-ma…
• Sedo to Offer Top 5 Tips for Domain Sales Success + New gTLD Consulting Crowd Grows Again
  Sedo is offering a free webinar - 5 Steps to Sales Success - on Wednesday, March 30th. We have detai…
• DNCruise 2011 to Feature Outing With Frank Schilling When Ship Docks at Grand Cayman
  After a successful maiden voyage in 2010 DNCruise will return September 5-10, 2011 with a Caribbean…
• People, Companies & TLDs in the News: Bhavin Turakhia, Alexa Raad, .TV, .AU and Fabulous.com
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com an end of the week wrap-up featuring people in the news (Direc…
• DoorHardware.com Helps Sedo Lock Down 14 of 20 Positions on This Week's Domain Sales Chart
  Sedo claimed four of the first five places on our new weekly all extension Top 20 Domain Sales Chart…
• New GeoSkipper Allows ANY Site to Display Content Tailored to the Visitor's Geographic Location
  Introducing the world’s first plug-and-play tool for website geo-targeting. A new offering from th…
• An "Un-Conference" - The 1st Domain Boardroom Funfest - Slated for Myrtle Beach in August
  Special interest domain meetings are enjoying a growth spurt. Successful gatherings have been held f…
• Local and Regional Gatherings Help Fuel Grass Roots Growth for the Domain Industry
  DN Journal's latest monthly newsletter is currently going out to several thousand opt-in email subsc…
• Name.com Releases Full Service Android App - First to Offer Mobile Back Ordering
  Name.com has released a free full service domain registration app for Android smartphones (an iPhone…
• Mike Robertson, Jen Sale, Adam Strong, Paul Keating & Bill Vanderent Form Domain Guardians
  In Late January former Fabulous.com executives Mike Roberston & Jen Sale announced they were leaving…
• Wall Street Journal Puts Rob Grant Back in the Spotlight & .Org Reaches 9 Million Registrations
  The Wall Street Journal has introduced a new interactive feature with an article spotlighting a spec…
• Won.com Wins This Week's Domain Sales Race With 6-Figure Sale at Moniker/SnapNames
  Over the past week Oversee.net's aftermarket twins, Moniker/SnapNames, closed a number of sales from…
• L.A. Times Says Legionella Bacteria Found in a Water Source at the Playboy Mansion
  The Los Angeles Times reported today that public health officials investigating an illness outbreak…
• Late Night King Jay Leno & Domain King Rick Schwartz Rub Elbows at Boca Raton Car Show
  Late Night King Jay Leno and Domain King Rick Schwartz were among those rubbing elbows on the final…
• Domainers Set for 2nd Assault on Kilimanjaro + Sampling of Domains in Roundtable Auction Released
  After conquering Africa's Mount Kilimanjaro last year in a fundraising climb for The Water School, a…
• Blockbuster Sale at Sedo - 2011's Biggest Deal to Date - Headlines New DN Journal Chart
  2011 domain sales have a new king of the hill, or should we say queen of the hill? GamesForGirls.com…
• Three Domain Conferences in Three Different Countries Will Run Over the Next 10 Days
  There won't be as many domain conferences in 2011 as last year, but you wouldn't know it from the nu…
• New Developments at Four Companies Join Continuing Illness Investigation in the News
  After spending most of the past two weeks focused on the outbreak of illnesses that followed this mo…
• Public Health Officials Offer Lab Test Help for Ill DOMAINfest Guests Who Live Outside Los Angeles
  Health officials investigating the outbreak of illnesses that followed this month's DOMAINfest confe…
• Aftermarket's Mid Range Flexes Its Muscles With 54 Five-Figure Sales Reported This Week
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. No blockbuster domain sales were reporte…
• Health Officials Still Waiting for 100s of DOMAINfest Attendees to Complete Illness Survey
  I was surprised to see in a new letter sent out by DOMAINfest Global organizers this morning that pu…
• State of the Industry Too: Optimism Back in Style With Record Breaking Crowd at DOMAINfest Global
  The new February Cover Story is out at DNJournal.com. Over three days at DOMAINfest Global this mont…
• Health Officials Tell Playboy Mansion Party Attendees Who Fell Ill to Contact Doctors ASAP
  The LA County Dept of Public Health has just sent a letter to DOMAINfest Global attendees.The letter…
• CDC & L.A. Dept. of Health Opens Investigation Into Outbreak That Sickened Domainers
  The Center for Disease Control in conjunction with Los Angeles County Department of Public Health ha…
• Lab Test on Sick Domainer Confirms Suspicions - Legionellosis Bacterial Infection Found
  After dozens of domainers fell ill with acute flu-like symptoms after returning home from last week'…
• Trio of Six-Figure Sales Set the Pace for the Domain Aftermarket Over the Past Two Weeks
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. The new column actually covers two weeks…
• The Sick List Grows Longer As More Domainers Struggle With Mysterious Illness
  Yesterday we told you about dozens of domainers being bedridden after falling ill upon returning hom…
• Disabled List from DOMAINFest Global Continues to Grow as Dozens Battle Nasty Bug
  With approximately 700 people on hand last week's DOMAINfest Global conference was another great eve…
• DOMAINfest Global is Over But the Next Event On the Show Circuit Opens Tomorrow
  We're back from another great DOMAINfest Global conference. A number of people who were at that even…
• Photos  & Highlights from DOMAINfest Global's Grand Finale at the Playboy Mansion
  Another great DOMAINfest Global conference closed last night with a gala party/charity fundraiser at…
• Day 3 Photos & Highlights From the DOMAINfest Global Conference in Santa Monica
  The curtain will come down on the 2011 DOMAINfest Global conference in Santa Monica, California with…
• Day 2 Photos & Highlights From the DOMAINfest Global Conference in Santa Monica, California
  The DOMAINfest Global Conference continued today at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica, Cali…
• Day 1 Photos & Highlights from DOMAINfest Global + Monte Cahn & Michael Berkens Join Forces
  DOMAINfest Global got underway today in Santa Monica, California. The show's organizers, Oversee.net…
• 2010 Domain Sales See Double Digit Jump Over Previous Year As 4th Quarter Sales Soar 45%
  DN Journal's latest monthly newsletter is being emailed to opt-in subscribers this weekend. It conta…
• Final Countdown to DOMAINfest Underway + Two Fabulous Execs Heading Out On Their Own
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com some final notes before DOMAINfest Global gets underway Tuesda…
• iGoldrush Launches Domain Brokerage Network & Rob Grant Gives Rivals Cold Shoulder
  iGoldrush has launched an innovative new domain brokerage service with an end-user focus. Meanwhile,…
• Sedo Sweeps First 7 Spots on This Week's Domain Sales Chart: 2-Digit Domain Sets Pace
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. Sedo rang up the seven biggest sales and…
• Sex.com Broker Jeff Gabriel Named President at DomainAdvisors.com
  Less than a week after announcing a new partnership with Linton Investments, PPX International's Dom…
• Castello Brothers to Deliver Keynote Speech at South America's Biggest Domain Conference
  When the 3rd International Internet Marketing & Domaining Conference is held in Punta del Este, Urug…
• Companies & People in the News: NameDrive, Kamila Sekiewicz, LeftOfTheDot & Frank Michlick
  NameDrive's Director of Business Development, Kamila Sekiewicz, dropped me a note this morning detai…
• The AfternicDLS Rings Up a Half Dozen Five-Figure Sales Including the Week's Biggest
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. The AfternicDLS rang up four of the top…
• The State of the Industry January 2011: DN Journal's Biggest Yearly Cover Story Is Now Out
  Our 7th annual State of the Industry Cover Story has just been published. To gauge the prospects for…
• DomainAdvisors.com Partners With Morgan Linton Investments in Major Service Expansion
  Less than 3 months ago PPX International Chairman Gregg McNair launched a new service for the domain…
• With DOMAINfest Global Just 2 Weeks Away Organizers Announce Plans For 3 Fabulous Parties
  The 2011 DOMAINfest Global conference gets underway two weeks from today in Santa Monica, California…
• How Did TMZ Miss This?: David Castello Caught Getting Intimate With Star From the Twilight Movies
  It has been over four years since I first met David Castello during a T.R.A.F.F.I.C. event in Hollyw…
• Meeting Mania: In Portland, L.A., Denver, Cologne & Nassau Doors Will Be Opening for Domainers
  The 2011 domain conference season is about to get underway in earnest. At least five shows will be h…
• DN Journal Weekly Domain Sales Report: UK Buyer Spends $100,000 to Be With His Soulmate
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. A nice 100K sale got the 2011 season off…
• Good News/Bad News From Domain Execs: Wedding Bells for One, Devastating Floods for Another
  This has been a good news/bad news day. On the bright side - after eight years together, DevHub Co-F…
• Rob Grant Rings Up Nice Real Estate Domain Sale & Sedo Super Broker Jeff Gabriel Resigns
  Rob Grant owns the world's largest collection of geo-targeted .com real estate domains and it is a r…
• Big Changes Ahead for NewOrleans.com as Owners Announce New Partnership With VEGAS.com
  In what looks like a geodomain marriage made in heaven premier websites representing two of America'…
• Want to Be Your Own Registrar? Free Webinar Will Tell You How to Do It & What It Costs
  A free webinar coming up two weeks from today will be of interest to anyone considering becoming the…
• A Non .Com gTLD & a ccTLD Top Year's Final Sales Week With Each Reaching 6 Figures
  Last week was the final week of the 2010 domain sales season and the year closed with a couple of un…
• Want to Sell More Ads to Local Businesses? Free Webinar Will Provide Tips on How to Do It
  With local advertisers shifting their ad dollars to the Internet I have always liked the position of…
• New Tropical Venue for T.R.A.F.F.I.C. 2011 + ICANN's Fowlie Takes 3rd Strike On His Way Out
  T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference organizers announce a new tropical venue for their next show in October an…
• Employee Misuse of Moniker WhoIs Privacy Data Harms Customer But May Spur Needed Change
  Earlier today Rick Schwartz & Michael Berkens both wrote about an unfortunate incident at Moniker.co…
• An Interview With Mike Fiol - The Man Behind Innovative Domain Auction Platform Boxcar.com
  Our latest monthly newsletter is being emailed to opt-in subscribers this weekend. It is also availa…
• Domain Roundtable Returns to the Conference Wars in a Spectacular New Setting
  After taking a year off in 2010, Domain Roundtable is open for business again. Registration opened t…
• How .CO CEO Juan Diego Calle is Turning a Seldom Used ccTLD Into a Booming Global Brand
  New Cover Story at DNJournal.com: Most of you know about the big splash that the .CO extension made…
• 6-Figure 2-Letter .Com Sale Gives Sedo Top Spot on This Week's DN Journal Sales Chart
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. Sedo secured the top spot on this week's…
• Sad News: Veteran T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Videographer Roy Crogan Passed Away Christmas Eve
  If you have ever been to a T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference you have probably seen Ft. Lauderdale based vid…
• The Frager Fracture: Freak Accident Confines Blogger to Bed But His Fingers Are Still Flying
  Marketing maven Owen Frager has always known how to get attention. His provocative headlines draw a…
• Christmas Eve - A Very Special Night at Our House
  As a kid my family opened presents on Christmas Eve but my wife's family opened theirs, like most, o…
• Chef Patrick Talks About His Purchase of ScienceFiction.com & What's In Store for the Generic Gem
  It is remarkable to see what a great domain can do for someone. Former real estate investor Patrick…
• Christmas Comes Early at Sedo With $233,000 Sale - Much Bigger Deal About to Close?
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. Sedo tops our latest chart with a $233,0…
• WIth DOMAINfest Global 2011 Just 6 Weeks Away Organizers Release New Details on the Big Event
  DOMAINfest Global 2011 has released an update on what is in store for the big event in Santa Monica,…
• Enom/Moniker Go Live on the AfternicDLS + Rob Grant Gives Gift Baskets a Recession Worthy Twist
  Last Christmas Rob Grant got a lot of press with his timely Recession Wreaths website. The tongue in…
• Elliot Silver & Jessica Bookstaff Doppelt Expand Their Networks of Well Developed Domain Names
  I've always advised developing one or more of your domain names on topics you are passionate about.…
• Quartet of 6-Figure Sales Totaling Over $1.1 Million Give the Aftermarket Another Strong Outing
  As I write this, Christmas Day is still 10 days away but it seems Santa paid an early visit to the d…
• Five Years in State Prison Awaits Domain Thief Daniel Goncalves - Who Wants to Be Next?
  The best news I have heard this week has to be word that a convicted domain thief is going to jail f…
• Out in the Cold? ICANN's Latest New gTLD Delay Gives Proponents Reason to Be Nervous
  While I was away visiting family the past four days ICANN again decided to delay final approval of t…
• DOMAINfest Global 2011 Announces Fantasy Domaining Contest + PITCHfest Changes
  The 2011 DOMAINfest Global conference coming up February 1-3 has announced a new Fantasy Domaining C…
• GoDaddy Auctions Go Wild Sweeping 4 of the First 8 Places on New DN Journal Sales Chart
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. GoDaddy Auctions staked their claim as a…
• Companies in the News: .INFO Registry, .CO Registry & Warren Royal's Bobbleheads.com
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: The .INFO registry's latest annual report shows a 30% jump in…
• DomainAdvertising Issues Study Showing Impressive Results for Their New Approach to Parking
  I have been hearing positive feedback from many who have tried the new graphics rich parking platfor…
• Founder Monte Cahn Parts Company With Moniker.com - Will Leave the Oversee Unit Dec. 31
  Domain industry pioneer Monte Cahn, the man who founded Moniker.com and stayed on to lead the popula…
• GoDaddy's Bob Parsons to Keynote at DOMAINfest Global + MO.com Interviews Ron Jackson
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: DOMAINfest Global 2011, coming up in February, has landed GoD…
• Two Six-Figure Sales Totaling Over $867,000 Top This Week's Domain Sales Chart
  The four-day Thanksgiving weekend gave most Americans a very short work week last week but the domai…
• Major Expansion at PPX Produces New Domain Consulting, Management & Monetization Options 
  PPX International, the rapidly growing company headed by 2010 Domainer of the Year Gregg McNair, has…
• Global Domain Registrations Break the 200 Million Barrier + New Podcast Features Frank Schilling
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: Versign's latest quarterly Domain Name Industry Brief reports…
• Sedo Beams Up Another Six-Figure Sale to Lead DN Journal's Weekly Domain Sales Chart
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. Sedo will have a lot to be thankful for…
• PPX Treats Domain Industry Guests To a Far Eastern Gathering They Won't Soon Forget
  We just got photos and highlights from an impromptu gathering that PPX hosted for domainers visiting…
• Domainers Venture Into The Real World, Find Businesses Ready to Hang Their Shingles Online 
  I just got back from an extended weekend trip to Mount Dora, Florida where Diana and I went to a hug…
• Coup for DOMAINfest Global + Mike Mann Cashes Out & Frank Schilling Turns the Table
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: DOMAINfest Global lands the author who wrote the book that th…
• Sedo Completes Biggest Domain Sale Ever Reported as Sex.com Closes at $13 Million
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com and this will go down as a landmark week…
• Warren Royal's Booming Bobbleheads.com Banks Equity Investment from Scott Day's Digimedia
  After buying Bobbleheads.com for $30,000 in 2008, Warren Royal built the domain into a booming busin…
• Local Domain Meetings Blossom As Denver Added to Calendar + I.CO To Be Auctioned Off  
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: Local and regional domain meetings are springing up all over.…
• Pair of 6-Figure Domains Totaling $420,000 Top New DN Journal Weekly Sales Report
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. Two solid and previously unreported six-…
• AfternicDLS Expands Again: Name.com Becomes 5th Instant Transfer Premium Partner
  The AfternicDLS and a leading registrar, Name.com, announced today that Name.com will join Afternic�…
• T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Miami 2010 - What Happened & How It Helped Clarify the Conference Hierarchy
  The 2010 Traffic Miami conference was a landmark event, not just because it drew great feedback from…
• Afilias Announces .INFO Website Award Winners - Hands Out Over $15,000 in Cash Prizes
  Afilias, the operator of the .INFO Registry, today announced the winners of their 2010 .INFO Awards.…
• Total $ Value of Reported 3Q-2010 Domain Sales Slip Slightly From 09 But Median Price Up 15%
  In our latest newsletter emailed to opt-in subscribers we broke down 3Q-2010 domain sales reported t…
• The 20 Biggest All-Cash Domain Sales Ever Reported by DNJournal.com
  Last week when the news broke that Sex.com would be sold for $13 million in a bankruptcy court aucti…
• No Free Lunch: Despite UDRP Win Company Settles Tab After Being Sued By Frank Schilling
  Two years ago a company used the UDRP process to try to take a generic name away from Frank Schillin…
• Half-Million Dollar Transaction Lands Atop This Week's Domain Sales Leader Board
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. A $500,000 deal, the 11th largest sale r…
• Domainers Do Hong Kong...AC President Resigns...Nashville.com Coup...Lizzy Rocks The CW!
  Today in the Lowdown at DN Journal: PPX International invites domainers to hang out with them in Hon…
• IDNs Take Center Stage in New York City: Photos & Highlights from the Big Apple
  With interest in IDN domains growing it was just a matter of time before the first formal IDN confer…
• How Domain Investor/Developer Chad Folkening Went from Mowing Lawns to Buying Mansions
  New DN Journal Cover Story: Former football player Chad Folkening has had to continually change dire…
• Are You Ready for Another ccTLD Re-Launch? Coming Monday - Sunrise for .SO.
  .CO enjoyed a wildly successful re-launch this past summer - now the .SO Registry hopes a little of…
• $13 Million Sex.com Sale Approved - Set to Become Top Cash Sale of All Time + Epik & Bido News
  A bankruptcy court judge has approved the $13 million sale of Sex.com. Once the domain has been tran…
• Year's 6th Seven-Figure Sale Takes Top Spot on This Week's DNJ Domain Sales Chart
  The aftermarket produced another 7-figure sale this week - one that ranks as the 5th highest sale re…
• Sad Saga of Bogus Bidder Nelson Brady Ends With SnapNames Settling Two Lawsuits
  Former SnapNames VP Nelson Brady created a world of trouble for his company and himself when he was…
• Events & Companies in the News: BlueGlass FL Conference 2010, TollFreeMarket.com & AfternicDLS
  Are your ready for another Florida conference?! Yes, DNCruise and T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Miami just ended, b…
• A Quintet of 6-Figure Sales Highlight Domain Aftermarket Action Over the Past Two Weeks
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. I was away for a 10-day stretch covering…
• T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Miami 2010: Why the Glow Lingers Long After the Conference Curtain Falls
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: Photos and Highlights from the closing day at T.R.A.F.F.I.C.…
• Tuesday Photos & Highlights From Traffic Miami: Award Winners, Don King & the Domain Auction
  The third day of the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Miami 2010 conference on South Beach Tuesday (Oct. 19) kicked of…
• Photos & Highlights From Day 2 - The First Full Day of Business - At T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Miami 2010
  T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Miami got down to business Monday (Oct. 18) - the first full day at the conference th…
• Photos and Highlights From Opening Day at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Miami 2010
  The T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Miami conference opened Sunday evening with a crowd of several hundred on hand at…
• Traffic Miami Opens Tonight on South Beach With Rick Schwartz & Howard Neu Back at the Wheel
  After a full year to prepare Traffic Co-Founders Rick Schwartz & Howard Neu will get back in the sad…
• Photos & Highlights From DNCruise 2010 - The First Domain Conference on a Cruise Ship
  It's hard to stand out in the crowded domain conference field so Chef Patrick knew he would have to…
• Anchors Away! A Domain Conference Doubleheader on Land and Sea Opens Monday
  A pair of extraordinary domain conferences will be held over the next 10 days with domain investors…
• Highlights From the First Day of Business at DOMAINfest Europe in Prague
  The DOMAINfest Europe 2010 conference in Prague, Czech Republic got down to business Wednesday (Oct.…
• 6-Figure Sale at Sedo & Sensational Outing for ccTLDs Highlight This Week's Aftermarket Action
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. Sedo uncorked a big sale to take the top…
• Domain/Identity Theft Incident Prompts T.R.A.F.F.I.C. to Add Security Session for Miami Show
  Cases of domain and identity theft reported by blogger Michael Berkens this week has prompted the T.…
• 3 Shows in a Row Will Bring Domainers Together on Both Sides of the Ocean As Well As In It!
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: Starting tomorrow a string of three special conferences over…
• Advertising.com Co-Founder Joins U.S. Congressman on Speaker's List for Traffic Miami
  Traffic South Beach, coming up Oct. 17-20, added to its exceptional roster of speakers today. Organi…
• Half Million $ Sale at Sedo & .CO Landrush Auction Sales Dominate DN Journal's New Chart
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. Sedo rang up one of the year's 10 bigges…
• Bodies Continue to Pile Up Under Internet Assault - Latest Victim: The White Pages
  A headline in a local newspaper jumped out at me - White Pages End Is Near! Wow, still another true…
• 2 New Shows Added to the Conference Calendar + Where Did YOUR Parking Revenue Go?
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: A new domain conference has been added to the crowded October…
• Rick Schwartz Says Domainers Getting the Shaft While Partners Roll in The Dough
  Our new T.R.A.F.F.I.C. South Beach preview article wound up covering much more ground than we antici…
• The Man Who Navigated Oversee.net Through Treacherous Straits and Back Into Open Water
  A new Cover Story is out at DNJournal.com. It is a profile of Jeff Kupietzky, the man who has guided…
• Sedo CEO Tim Schumacher & the Castello Brothers Deliver Keynote Speeches in Spain
  The Domaining III conference in Valencia, Spain continued today with keynote speeches from Sedo CEO…
• Domaining III Gets Underway in Spain With Good Early Reviews from the Castello Brothers 
  The Domaining III conference got underway today in Valencia, Spain with business sessions and an ope…
• Bean.com Bags Biggest Sale in DN Journal's New Weekly Domain Sales Report
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. Moniker took the top two positions on ou…
• Tuscany, Italy & Prague Ready to Welcome the Domain World + Global Domain Regs Rise Again
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: the next stop on SedoPro World Tour is coming up two weeks fr…
• Skip Hoagland Sells MyrtleBeach.com in Multi-Million Dollar Deal + Traffic Hong Kong Canceled
  Geodomain giant Skip Hoagland has sold one of his marquee websites - MyrtleBeach.com - in a multi-mi…
• Domain Pioneer Award Winner Rick Schwartz: Both Friends & Enemies Owe Him Thanks
  Rick Schwartz's high profile and outspoken nature have attracted more than a few critics. While his…
• Dave Evanson Joins Sedo, DomainConvergence Postponed & .CO Passes A Major Milestone
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: Sedo adds veteran domain investor Dave Evanson to its Sales &…
• Dirt Poor No More: Six Figure Sale Tops DN Journal's New Weekly Domain Sales Chart
  You've heard the expression - Cheaper than dirt - well, when it comes to domain names dirt is anythi…
• Bing Passes Yahoo for the 1st Time But Blew Big Chance to Close Ground on Google
  Microsoft's Bing search engine has slipped past Yahoo to become the 2nd most popular search engine i…
• That's Show Biz: Next 5 Weeks Will See 6 Conferences in 5 Countries & International Waters!
  Though not quite as busy as a crazy stretch in August that saw five domain conferences crammed into…
• Hitting Home Runs With Domain Development: Industry Pioneers Show How It's Done
  Website development has been a hot topic among domain owners this year. While much of the conversati…
• One of the Year's 10 Biggest Deals Highlights DN Journal's New Double Length Sales Report
  I was away last week for our son's wedding in Sarasota, so I have a double-length domain sales repor…
• We Are Not Alone: Life Discovered Outside the Internet Solar System!
  For the past eight years my life, like a planet orbiting the sun, has revolved around domain names.…
• Back to My Old Stomping Grounds For a Family Wedding & Research on a GeoDomain Project
  I'm currently in Sarasota, Florida where our son will be getting married on the beach this weekend.…
• High Value of Generic Domains Cited in New Interviews With Oversee.net & Swap.com CEOs
  The high value of generic domain names was the topic of conversation in two new interviews with indu…
• Epik Mints Their Own Currency for Buying Domains & Funding Development + Latest Show News
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: Attendees at the Epik Developer's Conference coming up Sept.…
• Developing Story: Rob Monster's Grand Plan for Epik.com and Why Parking Won't Be Part Of It
  DN Journal's new monthly newsletter is out. We connected with Epik.com Founder Rob Monster to learn…
• Another Million $ Sale at Moniker + ccTLD News + Alexa Raad Resigns as .ORG's President & CEO
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: Moniker rings up a 7-figure sale in the DOMAINfest New York E…
• Germany's Top Domain Conference Coming Next Week + Zak Muscovitch Needs Your Vote!
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: A preview of Germany's biggest domain conference - Domainverm…
• Prince.com Reigns On DN Journal's Weekly Top 20 Domain Sales Chart After 6-Figure Sale
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. The top sale ranks among the year's 25 b…
• Photos & Highlights From the DOMAINfest Power Networking Day in New York City
  The DOMAINfest New York Power Networking Day was held Wednesday (August 18) at the Grand Hyatt Hotel…
• Keynote Speaker Named for 1st Annual Epik Domain Developers Conference
  The 1st Annual Epik Domain Developers Conference is coming up Sept. 15-17 in Seattle.The founder of…
• In the News: DOMAINFest New York, GreatDomains, the Annual .INFO Awards & Ray Neu
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: Updates on Wednesday's DOMAINfest in New York, a new online a…
• Million Dollar Package Sale at Moniker + Pair of 6-Figure Deals Lead New DN Journal Sales Report
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. Domain buyers were very active again thi…
• More Who Are They? Answers + 20 Free Passes to Spain's Domaining III Show Up For Grabs
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com we identify the two remaining unnamed domainers from our lates…
• Real Estate Domain Giant Rob Grant Cuts a Unique Development Deal with Sotheby's Realty
  Rob Grant, CEO of RealEstateDirectory.com (who was profiled in our April 2008 Cover Story) and John…
• If Parking is Dead How Come A New Company Is Entering the Already Crowded Space?
  Parking revenues have fallen so far over the past couple of years that some have declared parking to…
• New DN Journal Domain Sales Report: Buyers Were Back Out in Force This Week
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. Another six-figure sale leads our latest…
• Companies and Events in the News: DOMAINfest New York, Parked.com & NameDrive.com
  A second Keynote Speaker has been added for next week's DOMAINfest New York Power Networking Day...D…
• DNW Stats Fills an Industry Void With a Free Domain Traffic and Revenue Verification Service
  Tired of getting ripped off by people selling domains with bogus traffic and revenue statistics? And…
• Who Are They - Round 2: Can You ID These Guys Hanging Out With Domain Pioneer Richard Lau?
  Time for another round of everyone's favorite domain game (OK, so maybe it's the only domain game, b…
• Hot on the Heels of Good Domain Aftermarket News Buyers Respond By Taking a Break!
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. The week started with several reports of…
• A New Approach to Domain Monetization: My Experience With SmartName's eCommerce Platform
  Over the past four months I have been giving the new ecommerce platform at SmartName.com a thorough…
• Latest Quarterly Domain Sales Data From DN Journal & Sedo Shows Nice Uptick in the Aftermarket
  The latest quarterly domain sales data from DNJournal.com & Sedo.com shows a nice uptick in aftermar…
• Rick Latona on the Over-Crowded Conference Calendar: Where Does the Madness Stop?
  This month's T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Dublin event will be the first major domain conference ever held in Irel…
• Total Value of 2Q-2010 Domain Sales Jump 26% Over the Previous Quarter & 38% Over A Year Ago
  In the latest DN Journal newsletter we break down 2Q-2010 domain sales results which showed a big ju…
• Who Are They? Now We Know! Readers Help Us Match Names With Industry Faces
  In my last Lowdown post I asked readers to help us identify some people in our massive industry phot…
• Sedo On Fire: They Sweep All But Two Entries on DN Journal's Weekly Domain Sales Chart
  Sedo makes a consistently strong showing on our weekly Top 20 Domain Sales Chart but the company out…
• Who Are They? Help Match Unidentified Domainers With Their Photos
  Over the years I have taken thousands of photos of domainers at industry events around the world. I…
• Castello Brothers to Deliver Keynote Speech in Spain & Kamila Sekiewicz Settles In At NameDrive
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: The Castello Brothers will join Sedo's Tim Schumacher as keyn…
• .CO Just Went Live But Aftermarket Sales Sites Devoted to the Extension Are Already Operating
  The newly re-launched .CO extension just opened for general registration Tuesday but before most new…
• Five Shows in 14 Days! The August Domain Conference Schedule Will Be The Busiest Ever
  Just when you thought the show schedule couldn't get any more crowded, here comes August and the bus…
• Pair of ccTLDs Sell For $750,000 as Non .Coms Score Repeat Win Over .Coms on DNJ Chart
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com and after 7 years of tracking the domain…
• .CO Gets Off to a Fast Start - Total Regs Pass the 100,000 Mark Within 30 Minutes of Launch
  The .CO extension opened for general registration today and the re-launched TLD got off to a blazing…
• People & Companies in the News: .CO, Sedo, ICANN, Rick Schwartz and Rick Silver
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: .CO General Registration Just Hours Away, Sedo Pro Forum webs…
• Country Code Alchemist: How .CA Devotee Rick Silver Is Turning Canadian Websites Into Gold
  A new Cover Story is out at DNJournal.com. This month we profile Canada's Rick Silver who rules an o…
• Skip Hoagland's Online Empire Expands With Launch of Shooting.com and CarClassifieds.com
  Skip Hoagland has always preached that partnerships are the way to get high quality domains develope…
• .ORG Celebrates Its 25th Anniversary - Do You Know What the 1st .ORG Domain Registered Was?
  The venerable .ORG registry is celebrating its 25th anniversary this week. It was on July 10, 1985 t…
• F Words Fetch $183,000 to Take the Top Two Spots on This Week's Domain Sales Chart
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. A pair of F words totaling $183,000 set…
• Fresh Off Their World Cup Win Spain Is Gearing Up for the Country's Biggest Domain Conference
  An international domain conference you may not have heard about before is coming up in Valencia, Spa…
• ICANN Postscript: Inside Directi's Brussels Beerfest at the World's Best Stocked Bar
  You thought ICANN meetings must be boring, right? Well, not if Directi has anything to say about it.…
• Weekend Roundup Featuring .CO, the CFIT-Verisign Legal Battle & Domain Auction News
  The Lowdown at DNJournal.com has a Weekend News Roundup featuring details about an extension for the…
• Three 6-Figure Sales (Including a .CA Blockbuster) Light Up DNJ's Latest Leader Board
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. We were away on vacation last week so th…
• SedoPro Forum Moves To New "World Tour" Format With Multiple Events Around the Globe
  The SedoPro Forum is switching to a new World Tour format that will begin next month with a get toge…
• A Memorable Summer Vacation in a Corner of the Country That the Internet Forgot
  I just returned from a memorable vacation that took me across the Carolinas and even beyond the long…
• With TV 's Audience Growing Old, Advertisers Told to Spend Their Money on the Web
  Younger viewers are deserting TV in droves, choosing to consume their video online instead. The medi…
• French Company Found Guilty of Reverse Domain Hijacking Attempt Against American Serviceman
  When it comes to domain arbitration cases, domainers usually get the short end of the stick - even w…
• Game Domain Passes Go, Collects $450,000 to Lead This Week's Sales Chart
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. Summer officially arrived this week alon…
• Like the Lakers DOMAINfest Global Plans Repeat Win By Taking Their 2011 Show Back to L.A.
  Just as L.A.'s beloved Lakers repeated as NBA champions last week, the organizers of the DOMAINfest…
• ICANN Meeting & .CO Land Rush Get Underway + Castello Brothers Worship the Sun
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: the 38th ICANN internationl ICANN meeting opens in Brussels,…
• DN Journal's Comprehensive Review of the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Vancouver Conference
  DN Journal's wire to wire review of Canada's first T.RA.F.F.I.C. conference has just been published.…
• The Latest T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Miami News - Plus Another Embarrassment for NAF Arbitrators
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com, The preliminary agenda has been posted and early bird registr…
• 7-Figure Sale & a Quartet of 6-Figure Transactions Lead New DN Journal Sales Report
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. Since we were away last week for T.R.A.F…
• Have Domain Regs Hit the 200 Million Mark? Plus, Andrew Allemann Launches a New Service
  A new report from Pingdom.com, building on 1Q-2010 stats released by Verisign, says we are about to…
• Traffic Vancouver Postscript: The Castello Brothers Cross British Columbia to Visit "The Cherminator"
  Legendary Vancouver area domainer Garry Chernoff was not able to make it to last week's Traffic conf…
• Center of the Domain Universe: Vancouver + New Industry Websites and Events of Note
  Many of the domain industry's movers and shakers are converging on Vancouver, British Columbia for C…
• Year's First Multi-Million Dollar Sale + Two 6-Figure Deals Top New DN Journal Sales Report
  The weekly DNJournal.com domain sales report is out and it was a very solid 7 days for the aftermark…
• A Post Memorial Day Potpourri With Dan Warner, ICANN and .Mobi all in the Mix
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com, some background on our new Cover Story about Dan Warner, plus…
• Dan Warner's Wild Ride: He's Been Up, Down, Over & Out - But He's Still in the Race
  New DN Journal Cover Story: The life of former Fabulous.com leader Dan Warner. He has done a hitch i…
• In the News: T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Vancouver & Milan - DOMAINfest Europe - Nelson Brady - E.co Auction
  A holiday weekend news roundup from DN Journal includes: The latest update on T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Vancouv…
• Highlights from Verisign's 25 Years of .Com Gala Held Wednesday Night in San Francisco
  Verisign staged a 25 Years of .Com Gala Wednesday night in San Francisco co-hosted by comedian Dana…
• Gamez.com Takes Top Spot on This Week's Sales Chart With Solid Sale at Sedo
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. A dozen .coms took places on our latest…
• How CentralNic Utilizes the World's Greatest Collection of 2-Letter .Com Domain Names
  Yesterday we ran a video interview with CentralNic Founder Robert Pooke who explained how he assembl…
• DN Journal's Video Interview With the Owner of the World's Greatest 2-Letter .Com Collection
  Wouldn't it be great to own a 2-letter .com domain like US.com, UK.com, EU.com or LA.com? Or perhaps…
• TechCrunch Launches New Website on a .CO Domain
  The .CO registry's innovative Founder's Program is awarding high profile domains to early adopter de…
• Two New Domain Industry Websites Launch and Two Existing Sites Unveil New Features
  May has seen the launch of new domain industry websites as well as the addition of new features at e…
• Verisign Planning Blowout Party in San Francisco Wednesday to Celebrate .Com's 25th Anniversary
  The .com extension turned 25 years old this year and as part of a year-long celebration to mark the…
• Sedo Captures the Top Spot on This Week's Domain Sales Chart with Capture.com
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. For the second straight week no reported…
• Another 6-Figure Domain Sale + Educating End Users on How Domains Can Boost Their Business
  Today in the Lowdown at DN Journal: The recent surge in high end domain sales continues with another…
• T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Vancouver Preview - DN Journal's Interview With Show Promoter Rick Latona
  One of the most highly anticipated T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conferences in years is coming up June 8-10 when t…
• Six and Seven Figure Domain Auction Sales This Week May Help Re-Ignite the Domain Aftermarket
  As of this writing, three public 7-figure domain sales have been completed so far in 2010, but all o…
• DrunkDriving.com Pulled Over at the Top of DN Journal's New Weekly Domain Sales Chart
  There were no six or seven figure blockbuster sales this week as the domain aftermarket throttled ba…
• DOMAINfest Ready to Introduce New Conference Twist in Ft. Lauderdale Thursday
  With domain conferences popping up everywhere these days, show organizers are trying out new locatio…
• The New "Crazy Eddie?" - T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Vancouver Prices Drop "So Low They're INSANE!"
  When Rick Latona announced today that he slashed the registration price for the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Vanco…
• 2010 GeoDomain Expo Review: New Orleans Rolls Out the Red Carpet for Domain Developers
  DN Journal's comprehensive review of the 2010 GeoDomain Expo is now online, It features dozens of pr…
• No Sale of SanDiego.com Friday - Noteholder Forecloses and Takes Control of the Domain
  As we reported last Monday SanDiego.com was scheduled to be sold in a foreclosure auction Friday (Ma…
• People & Companies in the News: Directi's Divyank Turakhia, Sedo, IDN Newsletter & DNS.com
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: 28-year-old Directi Co-Founder Divyank Turakhia is profiled o…
• The Biggest Domain Sale Reported So Far This Year Tops DN Journal's Latest Chart
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. I was away covering the GeoDomain Expo i…
• Innovative Domain Auction Service Bido.com Abruptly Calls It Quits
  I was surprised and saddened to get today's news that innovative domain auction service Bido.com is…
• SnapNames/Oversee Files Suit Against Formed VP and Alleged Shill Bidder Nelson Brady
  SnapNames.com and its parent company Oversee.net today announced they have filed suit against Nelson…
• SanDiego.com To Go Up For Sale in a Public Foreclosure Auction Friday (May 7)
  I have learned that the assets of SD Acquisitions LLC, owner of the SanDiego.com domain name, will g…
• Median Domain Sale Prices Increased In 1Q-2010 But Total Dollar Volume Was Down
  An analysis of domain sales reported to us in the 1st quarter of 2010 showed that total dollar volum…
• DN Journal Cover Story: How Bill Karamouzis is Cooking Up an Online Gaming Empire
  A new cover story is out at DNJournal.com. Few domain sales have set more tongues wagging than the $…
• News Roundup Led By Revelations Embarrassing to Domain Arbitrators & Complainants
  In the Lowdown at DNJournal.com we're closing the week with a roundup of recent developments led by…
• GeoDomainers in the News: Scottsdale.com's Fred Mercaldo & Missouri.me's Bruce Marler
  When I head over to New Orleans for the GeoDomain Expo next week I will be looking forward to seeing…
• 1-800-BUSINESS LLC to Auction Off Domain Name and Matching Toll Free Phone Number
  1-800-BUSINESS LLC, a company that was formed to operate a business around the toll-free vanity numb…
• Blockbuster $300,000 Brazilian ccTLD Sale Tops This Week's DN Journal Sales Chart
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com, The year's 2nd biggest ccTLD sale and th…
• New Site Devoted Entirely to .Tel Domain Owners Goes Live
  Fans of the .tel extension got a new resource to draw on today when the TelMasters.com website went…
• GeoDomain Expo Posts Speaker Information & DOMAINfest Unveils Auction Pre-Bidding System
  GeoDomain Expo organizers have posted more speaker and session information for the event coming up A…
• Companies in the News: GoDaddy Auctions, The AfternicDLS and LogicBoxes
  GoDaddy Auctions, the AfternicDLS and LogicBoxes all announced new service offerings today. GoDaddy…
• Oversee's Moniker and SnapNames Units Report 42% Jump in 1Q-2010 Domain Sales
  Oversee.net says things are looking up for the domain aftermarket. Their Moniker and SnapNames divis…
• Sofas.com Lounges at Top of This Week's Domain Sales Chart After $231,500 Sale
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. A pair of six-figure sales head our late…
• Multi-Million Dollar Domain Broker Tessa Holcomb Joins PPX & New Partner DomainManager.com
  Tessa Holcomb, who brokered several million dollars worth of domain sales at Sedo has taken a new du…
• Consultant Says New gTLDs Will Banish .Com to Less Professional, Mom-and-Pop Operations
  I was interviewed for an article posted on AOL News today. The reporter asked for my reaction to a c…
• Chef Patrick Joins The Corporate World - Dude, What Were You Thinking!?
  It's not often that you see freewheeling entrepreneurs like Patrick Ruddell taking a job in a big co…
• Rick Latona Unveils Daily 24-Hour Domain Auction & Sedo Rings Up $785,000 in .TV Sales
  Rick Latona converts his popular domain sales newsletter into a daily 24-hour auction that will run…
• T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Milan & GeoDomain Expo Agendas Firmed Up - Shows Only 3 Weeks Away
  With the opening sessions at two major domain conferences, T.R.A.F.F.I.C. in Milan, Italy and the Ge…
• Year's Biggest Sale To Date Soars to Top of DN Journal's New Weekly Domain Sales Chart
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. It was a good week for the aftermarket w…
• NameMedia Deal With Register.com Opens Up New Sales Opportunity for Domain Owners
  Major registrar Register.com has signed an agreement to join NameMedia’s Domain Listing Service, t…
• Rick Latona Auctions Parts Ways With President David Clements
  In a Sunday surprise, Rick Latona announced that he and Rick Latona Auctions President David Clement…
• GeoDomain Expo Preview: 3 Days in New Orleans Devoted to Networking & Domain Development
  The 2010 GeoDomain Expo will run April 28-30 at the historic Roosevelt Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New…
• Hard Deadline for GeoDomain Expo Hotel Rooms Coming Up Tuesday (April 6)
  If you plan to go to the 2010 GeoDomain Expo and have not yet booked a room for the April 28-30 show…
• Digital Marketers Says Domain Names Are a Key Factor in Successful Marketing Campaigns
  A vast majority of respondents in a new Sedo survey of digital marketers said owning the right domai…
• 2nd Highest .Com Sale Reported Year To Date Tops New Weekly Chart at DNJournal.com
  The 2nd best .com domain sale reported so far this year gave Sedo the top spot on DN Journal's new T…
• GeoDomain Owners Organization Associated Cities Reboots as a Non-Profit Trade Association
  Associated Cities, the association of geodomain owners that stages the annual GeoDomain Expo, has tr…
• DOMAINfest Expands With Two New 1-Day Shows & T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Milan Adds a 2nd Auction
  The constantly growing domain conference calendar expanded yet again today when DomainSponsor announ…
• Companies in the News: Sedo, DomainConsultant, SocialDomainers.com & Domainbie.com
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: Sedo's parent company gets a new but familiar name. Plus, new…
• Year's 2nd Biggest .Org Sale Reported Along With 3rd Highest.Com & 5th Biggest ccTLD
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com with high ranking sales reported in every…
• Howard Neu Enters the Blogosphere + Sendori Gets 2 Patents Related to Domain Leasing
  T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Co-Founder Howard Neu has entered the blogosphere after receiving HowardNeu.com as a…
• Extreme Makeover for Premium .TV Prices - New Registrants Rejoice But Will Old Ones Riot?
  .TV registry operator Verisign has blown up their previous business model for the extension. Prices…
• Auction Action Heats Up: SnapNames Reports 335K Sale & 2 More Big Events Get Underway
  With spring on the way temperatures aren't the only things heating up. Auction activity is breaking…
• Former Moniker VP Victor Pitts Moves to DomainIt.com + Sex.com Auction Called Off
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: Industry veteran Victor Pitts, who recently left his position…
• One of the Year's 5 Biggest Domain Sales Tops This Week's Chart at DNJournal.com
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. One of the five biggest sales of 2010 to…
• Sedo and Verisign Teaming Up to Auction Off the Entire Available Catalog of Premium .TV Domains
  Sedo announced today that they are teaming up with Verisign (the operator of the .tv registry) to st…
• Demand Media Featured in Special Issue of Time Magazine + .Com Celebrates 25th Anniversary
  Time Magazine has published an Annual Special Issue that features an article about one of the bigges…
• A Domain Industry Climb Team Member Describes What it Took to Conquer Mount Kilimanjaro
  DN Journal's new monthly newsletter has the first detailed account of a domain industry climb team's…
• New Online Magazine Devoted to ccTLDs Launches + ICANN Announces Trademark Clearinghouse
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: A new online magazine focusing entirely on ccTLDs has launche…
• ShopCity.com Launches Nationwide Shopping Network Offering Local Partnership Opportunities
  ShopCity.com is rolling out an innovative nationwide local shopping network that is offering career…
• T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Milan Puts Out Call for Test Track Participants & Live Auction Submissions
  If you have an early stage company with a great domain, great idea, or both, and you are looking for…
• New Weekly Domain Sales Report at DNJournal.com - Guns.com Mows Down the Competition
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. Guns.com staged a clean getaway - toppin…
• For the 1st Time Digital Advertising To Outstrip Print in 2010 + .CO Launch Plan Unveiled
  A major new market survey of American advertisers and marketers says this will be the year when digi…
• Moniker Completes Year's Biggest .Com Sale To Date at $800,000
  We have learned that Moniker.com has completed the biggest .com sale reported so far this year at $8…
• The Rise (and Fall?) of Domain Conferences - For Years They Have Thrived But Can They Survive Oversaturation?
  New Cover Story: The 2010 conference schedule began with 3 shows in 23 days - an average of one ever…
• Domain Industry Climb Team Reaches the Summit of Mount Kilimanjaro & Returns Safely to Base
  The group of more than two dozen domain industry pros who went to Tanzania, Africa to climb Mount Ki…
• Skip Hoagland Adds Another .Com GeoDomain to His World Class Collection
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: Geodomain giant Skip Hoagland has joined with a partner to pu…
• 1st Domain Conference/Cruise Announced + an Update on the Domainers Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro!
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: Domain conferences have been held on land in various corners…
• DOMAINfest Announces Return to Europe With Conference in Prague October 6-7, 2010
  Four years after their first European conference in Barcelona, Spain, DOMAINfest will return to the…
• Peddle to the Metal: $165,000 Sale at Sedo Wins This Week's Domain Aftermarket Race 
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. A 165K sale at Sedo scored a runaway win…
• Registration for T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Milan Opens With Some Very Attractive Early Bird Prices
  Registration for the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference coming up in Milan, Italy April 27-29 opened today wi…
• Mike Zapolin's PrescriptionDrugs.com Website Earns Spot in Harvard Business School Contest
  Michael Zappy Zapolin has scored a major honor for his latest category killing domain name developme…
• New Owner of UDRP.com Turns Out to Be Both a Domain Investor AND an End User
  Bido.com sold UDRP.com for $16,500 last week. Considering the fact that each side in a single UDRP d…
• DevHub.com Completes Seattle Office Expansion - Major Platform Upgrades Coming Next
  DevHub just completed a big office expansion project. Next, Co-founder Mark Michael says DevHUb will…
• Domainer Mardi Gras Dialed Everything Up a Notch For the Show's Second Run in New Orleans
  Dn Journal's comprehensive review of the 2nd Annual Domainer Mardi Gras Conference has just been pub…
• Two Dozen Domainers Set to Begin Climb of Mount Kilimanjaro Monday!
  On Monday at least two dozen men and women representing the domain industry will begin a climb of mo…
• Nice Week For the Domain Aftermarket With a Million $ Sale and Two Six-Figure Deals
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. The highlights include the year's first…
• Registration Opens and Keynote Speaker Named for 2010 GeoDomain Expo in New Orleans
  The 2010 GeoDomain Expo will be held in the Big Easy at the luxurious Roosevelt New Orleans Hotel Ap…
• Directi Co-Founder Divyank Turakhia is Featured on Bloomberg's UTV Network
  Directi Co-Founder & Skenzo Founder, 28-year-old Divyank Turakhia, runs one of the fastest growing c…
• Exclusive: Poker.org Buyer Reveals They Also Bought the 2nd Most Expensive .Org Domain Ever
  The owners of PokerCompany.com made history last week when they purchased Poker.org for $1 million,…
• After 3 Weeks Away From Home It's Payback Time + Sedo Confirms $1 Million Poker.org Sale
  After being away from home three of the past four weeks covering domain conferences (T.R.A.F.F.I.C.…
• Creating Goodwill for Your Business and GeoDomain Websites Through Community Involvement
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: A case study in how to create goodwill for your business and…
• No Blockbusters But the Middle of the Domain Aftermarket Boomed Over the Past 7 Days
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. Though no 6-figure sales were reported t…
• The Royal Connection Between Ron Jackson, King Tut and the Castello Brothers
  The Castello Brothers have developed successful websites on a number of great domain names including…
• Domainer Mardi Gras Forecast: Cold & Wet With a Few Missing Guests But Rain Won't Stop This Parade
  The Domainer Mardi Gras conference gets underway tonight in New Orleans. The forecast calls for a st…
• First Video Interview in Morgan Linton's New Domain TV Series is Online - Dozens More to Come
  At T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Las Vegas and DOMAINfest Global Morgan Linton shot dozens of video interviews for…
• Biking.com Brakes At #1 on This Week's Domain Sales Chart - South African ccTLD Takes #2
  The new Weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. Biking.com raced to the top of our all e…
• Traditional Media Execs Met the Castello Brothers Today & Found Out Who Ate Their Lunch!
  The Castello Brothers, David and Michael, spoke at Borrell Associates' Local Online Advertising Conf…
• Stars Lining Up For Domainer Mardi Gras - Saints Super Bowl Win Will Take it to a New Level
  The Domainer Mardi Gras conference will be held in New Orleans Thursday through Saturday. With the M…
• Opportunity is Knocking & DOMAINfest Attendees Ready to Answer After Record Breaking Show
  DN Journal's comprehensive review of the DOMAINfest Global conference that ran January 26-28 in Sant…
• New Leader, New Venue & New Format Made T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Las Vegas a Pivotal Event
  DN Journal's comprehensive review of the 2010 T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Las Vegas conference has just been publ…
• .SE Registry Claims Victory Over .Com - New Report Says .Com Losing Foothold in Sweden
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: Sweden's .SE Registry claims victory over .Com. According to…
• With the ccTLD Market Booming Drop.com.au is Zeroing In On Expiring Australian Domains
  With the ccTLD market on an upward trajectory, dropcatching service Drop.com.au has joined the growi…
• The ccTLD That Represents a Place Where No One Lives!
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: The ccTLD that represents a place with a population of ZERO!…
• Quarter Million Dollar Sale of Boating.com Tops Latest Domain Aftermarket Action
  The latest domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. Boating.com docked at $250,000 to top domain…
• Total Reported Domain Sales for 2009 Fall 12.5% But ccTLD Sales Soar 28%
  DNJournal.com's new monthly newsletter is out. It reports that total reported domain sales dropped 1…
• AOL Loses Battle in TM War With Advertise.com - Will It Impact Aborted $1.4M Ad.com Sale?
  A Federal Appellate Court has ruled against AOL and given Advertise.com the right to continue doing…
• Domain Auction to Raise Funds for Haiti Earthquake Victims + Mr. Latona's Wild Ride
  An online domain auction to raise money for Haiti earthquake victims will get underway Friday... the…
• Companies in the News: T.R.A.F.F.I.C., DOMAINfest and Mocus.com
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: Pre-Bidding opens for the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Las Vegas auction, D…
• With Back to Back Domain Conferences Starting This Week We're Playing Beat the Clock!
  Back to back domain conferences get underway Thursday when the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference opens in La…
• 16 Domain Experts Sound Off in DN Journal's 6th Annual State of the Industry Report
  The January Cover Story is out at DNJournal.com and as we do at the start of every year, we asked so…
• T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Las Vegas Keynote Speaker Promises to Help You Succeed in Your Business
  T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Las Vegas names the Keynote Speaker for next week's conference at the Hard Rock Hotel…
• New Weekly Domain Sales Report at DNJournal.com Topped by ccTLD Blockbuster
  The New Year's first full week of domain sales is now in the books. Sedo helped get 2010 off to a ro…
• DOMAINfest Global Hotel Sells Out and IDNTools.com Takes a Bow in Times Square
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: Rooms have sold out at the host hotel for DOMAINfest Global b…
• HyperLocal Online Media Sites Soaring While Old Platforms Continue to Sink
  While newspapers have been decimated by the economics transforming today's media industry, Web sites…
• 2010 DOMAINfest Global Preview: An Inside Look at What DFG Has in Store For You This Year
  DOMAINfest Global 2010 is coming up later this month and all indications are that attendees will be…
• Howard Neu & Danny Pryor Join Domain Aftermarket Competition With New Sales Platform
  Another competitor joined the domain aftermarket fray Wednesday when T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Co-Founder Howar…
• $350,000 Deal at NoktaDomains Tops New Weekly Domain Sales Chart at DNJournal.com
  The final week of the 2009 domain sales season saw the kind of light overall activity you expect ove…
• Hypnotic New Album from Domainer's Daughter Lizzy Grant Now Available on iTunes
  The debut album from recording artist and domainer's daughter Lizzy Grant (stage name Lana Del Ray)…
• T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Las Vegas Offers Private Test Track Option & DomainState Goes Up For Sale
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: The upcoming T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Las Vegas conference introduces a…
• T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Las Vegas 2010 Preview: DN Journal Interview With Show Promoter Rick Latona
  There have been many landmark shows in the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. series and the upcoming show at the Hard R…
• Reflections on the End of a Year (and a Decade) and the Start of New Ones
  A fleeting masterpiece appeared in my backyard this morning. I was struck by how appropriate it was…
• The "Decade From Hell" Ends Friday But I'll Have Fond Memories of the Aughts
  Another decade will end less than 36 hours from now and according to a new report from the The Pew R…
• .Com GeoDomain and 8 ccTLDs Dominate DN Journal's Weekly Domain Sales Chart 
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. A nice .com geodomain set the pace with…
• RootOrange.com Contest Offers Free Ticket and Hotel Room for DOMAINfest Global
  In an effort to persuade people to try their new domain leasing monetization system, Root Orange is…
• Plunge in Parking Revenue Spurs Spate of New Domain Monetization Options
  A plunge in parking revenue this year left domain owners hunting for new monetization options that m…
• Biggest Online Shopping Day Ever!
  Though overall Christmas retail sales were sluggish, online sales were a bright spot this year. comS…
• North Carolina Domainer Launches New Non-Profit Domain Name Knowledge Base Site
  North Carolina based domainer Abdu Tarabichi has launched a new non-profit website - the Domain Name…
• .INFO Annual Report Says the World's #7 TLD Tops All New TLDs With 5.3 Million Registrations
  .INFO registry operator Afilias released its 2009 .INFO Annual Report this week. The extension curre…
• For the 2nd Week in a Row a Record IDN Sale is Reported and It Leads the New DNJ Chart
  The new weekly domain sales report is out DNJournal.com. A pair of previously unreported .de (German…
• The Sky is Bright for Domain Owners Who Diversified - Part 3 - "Going to the Dogs"
  Elliot Silver has announced his latest site development project at DogWalker.com.This site exemplifi…
• The Sky is Bright for Domain Owners Who Diversified - Part 2
  My last Lowdown post on Friday was about 4 domain owners who are taking control of their own destini…
• Life in the Fast Lane: Rick Latona Got a Late Start But He's Quickly Closing In on the Competition
  The new December Cover Story is out at DNJournal.com. This exclusive profile of a man who seems to b…
• The Economy is Bad and PPC is Worse But The Sky is Bright for These Domain Owners Who Diversified
  The economy is crippled and PPC has fallen off a cliff, but skies are blue for many domain owners wh…
• January Conferences Unveil Attractive Agendas & Verisign Plays Scrooge Again
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: The 2010 domain conference schedule gets underway next month…
• Is Holding Out a Tin Cup the Best Way to Monetize a Website With 5 Million Visitors a Month?
  MiamiHerald.com is about to find out. In an effort to survive the historic media shift from traditio…
• Big Sale of Barns.com & Landmark IDN Deal Top DN Journal's New Weekly Sales Report
  A pair of nice six-figure sales headline this week's domain sales report at DNJournal.com. Barns.com…
• PPC Revenue is Finally Expected to Begin Rebounding in 2010
  Many domain owners have seen their PPC revenue drop by 75% or more, but we may finally witness an en…
• Misadventures in Brick & Mortar Land + WhyPark Charity Auction Opens at Latonas.com
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: Ron Jackson is back from a family visit to the frozen north.…
• 6-Figure Sale at Sedo Sits Atop DN Journal's Latest Weekly Domain Sales Chart
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. Sedo.com took the pole position on our l…
• Online Ad Spending About to Bounce Back? New Survey Indicates a Turnaround is Near
  A new survey of more than 1,000 global business leaders indicates that online ad spending will final…
• Conference in L.A. This Week & Free Webinar Aim to Help You Cash in on Local Advertising
  Are you among the many domain developers who are building sites aimed at attracting revenue from loc…
• New Domain Sales Site Launched by Industry Heavyweight Andrew Miller
  The number of options for buyers in the domain aftermarket continues to grow. Andrew Miller, co-foun…
• Antivirus Company Names the World's Most Dangerous Domain (.Com Gets Dinged Too)
  McAfee, one the of largest manufacturers of anti-virus software, just named Cameroon's .cm country c…
• 7-Figure Sale Rules This Week's Domain Sales Chart Backed By Two Big 6-Figure Deals
  The new weekly domain sales chart is out at DNJournal.com. There are three heavyweights totaling $2.…
• Websites to Replace Retail Stores Within 5 Years? If Prediction Comes True Domains Will Rule
  Imagine what domain names that define various categories of products and services would be worth if…
• New York Times Weighs in On the "Kids" Who Are Taking Over the Media World
  New online media platforms have siphoned away much of traditional media's audience, but a New York T…
• Great Domains & VC Dollars Are Helping 30-Year-Old Jay Penske Build a New Media Empire
  With acquisitions of Mail.com, Fan.com, Deadline.com & others, the 30-year-old son of auto racing le…
• When Millions of Americans Gather to Give Thanks Thursday 17 Members of Our Family Will Be Among Them
  We're getting the decks cleared here so we can join the rest of the U.S. in celebrating one of Ameri…
• 3-Letter Swedish ccTLD Sells for Six Figures to Top DN Journal's Weekly Domain Sales Chart
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. It was another solid week led by one of…
• Former Fabulous.com Exec Dan Warner Named CEO at DomainAdvertising.com
  DomainAdvertising.com has named industry veteran Dan Warner as the company's new CEO. Warner is a we…
• German GeoDomain Website Wins $7,500 First Prize in the 2009 .INFO Awards Contest
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: A German geodomain website has won the $7,500 First Prize in…
• SnapNames Shill Bidding Scandal Leads to Another Class Action Lawsuit Against Oversee.net
  The insider shill bidding scandal at SnapNames.com has resulted in a 2nd class action lawsuit being…
• Domain Aftermarket Options Are Expanding As Industry Players Launch New Sales Platforms
  Options in the domain aftermarket are expanding with the launch of several new sales platforms by es…
• With IDNs Finally on the Fast Track the Global Domain Market May Get a Boost
  DN Journal's new monthly newsletter features an interview with two IDN experts on what the new fast…
• ccTLD Boom Fuels Interest in Canada's .ca & Howard Neu Gets on the Development Bandwagon
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: The boom in ccTLD sales is fueling interest in many extension…
• Whiskey.com Bellies Up to the Bar For a 6-Figure Deal That Tops DN Journal's Weekly Sales Report
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. Whiskey.com washed down $185,000 to whip…
• Domain Attorney Ari Goldberger Goes Hollywood With an Appearance on HBO
  If you were watching HBO's hit comedy Curb Your Enthusiasm Nov. 8th, you may have noticed a familiar…
• First Known Criminal Indictment of a Domain Thief Has Been Handed Down by NJ Attorney General
  In August we told you about the arrest of Danny Goncalves, the man accused of stealing P2P.com and s…
• After 7 Months Away on a Military Mission, Steve Morales is Back on the GeoDomain Beat
  Steve Morales has resumed his geodomain duties at SimplyGeo.com LLC after a U.S. Army mission abrupt…
• Bad News Comes in Threes? eNom Founder Paul Stahura Leaves Demand Media
  After reporting the departure of two NameMedia Senior VP's earlier today, we now convey the news tha…
• A Second NameMedia Senior VP, Brian Carr, Has Reportedly Left the Company
  Earlier today we reported that NameMedia Senior VP Pete Lamson, who was also General Manager of the…
• AfternicDLS and BuyDomains General Manager Pete Lamson Leaves NameMedia
  Senior Vice President Pete Lamson has left NameMedia where he ran two of the domain industry's bigge…
• GeoDomain Giant Skip Hoagland Teams Up With Databanq to Launch ChamberOfCommerce.com
  Skip Hoagland's company, Domains New Media, has teamed up with Databanq to launch a major new site a…
• Sedo Sweeps the First 8 Positions on DN Journal's Weekly Domain Sales Chart
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. There were no blockbusters this week but…
• Domainer Mardi Gras Posts the Initial Agenda for their February 2010 Show in New Orleans
  Organizers of the Domainer Mardi Gras Conference have posted the Initial agenda for their February 2…
• Latest Developments in the SnapNames Shill Bidding Scandal
  The first class action lawsuit has been filed in the shill bidding scandal at SnapNames that continu…
• 2009 T.R.A.F.F.I.C. New York Conference Marks the End of an Era
  DNJournal's comprehensive review of the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. New York conference, including dozens of prev…
• Companies in the News: Sedo, Moniker, Neustar, Pool.com and eBusinessDomains.com
  Today in t he Lowdown at DNJournal.com: News from Sedo, Moniker, Neustar, Pool.com and eBusinessDoma…
• Photos of Alleged SnapNames Shill Bidder Nelson Brady & Our Thoughts on the Scandal
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: Exclusive photos of alleged SnapNames shill bidder Nelson Bra…
• Best.com Bags Top Spot on DNJ Domain Sales Chart Covering the Past Two Weeks
  I was away covering the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. New York conference last week so we have published a double-l…
• Sedo's First Ever Two-Character .Com and .Net Domain Auction Gets Underway Thursday
  Sedo will open a week-long online auction featuring only two-character .com and .net domain names on…
• Finalists Named for 2009 .INFO Awards - Top 3 in Public Voting This Week Will Split $15,500
  Owners of ten .info websites have been named finalists in the 2009 .INFO Awards Contest. That group…
• Photos & Highlights from the Closing Day at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. New York
  The Lowdown at DN Journal has photos & highlights from the Closing Day at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. New York: A…
• Photos and Highlights from the 1st Full Day (and Night) at the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. New York Conference
  Tuesday was a busy day at the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. New York conference, starting at 10am and running into…
• Photos & Highlights from the Opening Night at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. New York + Breaking News
  The T.R.A.F.F.I.C. New York conference opened with a welcoming cocktail party last night. In private…
• The T.R.A.F.F.I.C. New York Conference Gets Underway This Evening
  The T.R.A.F.F.I.C. New York conference gets underway this evening at the Brooklyn Bridge Marriott. W…
• MythBuster: Former Farmer Gregg McNair Proves Opportunties Still Abound in the Domain Business
  The new October Cover Story is out at DNJournal.com. Some say the really BIG opportunities in the do…
• Sedo Provides Evidence Showing DDOS Attack Had Little Impact on GreatDomains Auction
  Sedo has provided us with statistics and individual auction logs showing that DDOS attacks against t…
• Newspaper Reporters Urge Publishers to Move More Quickly from Print to Online Distribution
  Though owners of traditional media outlets may still be hostile to the web, a new study says nearly…
• T.R.A.F.F.I.C. New York - the Last Conference That Will Feature 2 Competing Live Auctions 
  T.R.A.F.F.I.C. New York gets underway Monday evening and this will be the last show to feature multi…
• One of 2009's 20 Biggest Sales & The Year's 2nd Highest ccTLD Sale Top New DNJ Chart
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. Sedo tops the chart with a pair of six-f…
• Video Drives New Traffic to Chicago.com & Afilias Offers Big Cash Prizes to the Best .Info Websites
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: A new video featuring a local comedian is driving traffic to…
• Partners in Paradise: Our Review of the 2009 SedoPro Partner Forum in Key West, Florida
  The 2009 SedoPro Partner Forum was held at the Waldorf Astoria's Casa Marina Resort in Key West, Flo…
• Going for the Gold: Domain Developers Report Growth in Their Enterprises Despite the Recession
  A number of domain owners who have headed down the development path are reporting major product laun…
• Final Agenda Released For T.R.A.F.F.I.C. New York + Other Tidbits to Tide You Over This Weekend
  The final agenda has been released for the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Conference coming up in New York City Octo…
• How Rick Schwartz, Rick Latona & 3 Other Industry Figures REALLY Made Their Money
  I have always assumed that T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Co-Founder Rick Schwartz, all-around industry impresario R…
• Previously Undisclosed 600K Sale is One of 3 Blockbusters at Top of DN Journal Sales Report
  The new weekly DN Journal domain sales report is out (this one actually covers two weeks since we we…
• Castello Brothers Join Fred Mercaldo To Launch Another Development at Manicure.com
  The Castello Brothers have joined Fred Mercaldo to launch another developed website at Manicure.com.…
• More T.R.A.F.F.I.C. NY News, Plus Links to Free Passes for a Pair of Appealing Domain Webinars
  Tonight in DN Journal's Lowdown: Ron's on the late shift after spending the day replacing a totaled…
• CNN Anchorman Rick Sanchez to Speak at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. New York
  CNN Anchorman Rick Sanchez will deliver the keynote address at the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. New York conferenc…
• Exclusive T.R.A.F.F.I.C. New York 2009 Preview - This Year's Theme is "Survival"
  The T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference is returning to New York October 26-29. At last year's NYC show, the e…
• Photos & Highlights from the Final 24 Hours at the SedoPro Partners Forum in Key West
  This weekend in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: Photos and highlights from from the final 24 hours at…
• 3rd Quarter Domain Sales Equal Year Ago Level and Rise 15% From the Previous Quarter
  Despite the recession, third quarter domain sales matched the year ago level for the same quarter an…
• Photos & Highlights from the 2009 MeetDomainers Conference In Warsaw
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: Photos and highlights from the 2nd Annual MeetDomainers Confe…
• ICA Legal Counsel Says New Agreement Likely to Delay New gTLDs As Focus Shifts to IDNs
  Internet Commerce Association Legal Counsel Phil Corwin says the new Agreement of Commitments betwee…
• .Biz Banks Big Bucks, Sedo Co-Founders Sell Out & U.S. Loosens ICANN Leash
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: .Biz bags over $360,000 in an auction of 1-character domains…
• Six-Figure Country Code Sale Beats All Comers in This Week's Domain Aftermarket Action
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. A British ccTLD reigns over our weekly T…
• T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Co-Founders Hand Five of Next Year's Six Shows Over to Rick Latona
  T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Co-Founders Rick Schwartz and Howard Neu say they will turn responsibility for five o…
• Castello Brothers Secure the Services of a Legendary Local TV Personality for Nashville .com
  GeoDomainers continue to raid traditional media for talent as the Castello Brothers secure the servi…
• People Who Use the Internet Have a More Positive View of PPC Than SEO. Really?
  Do people who use the Internet have a more positive view of PPC ads than SEO? A search engine called…
• Companies in the News: DOMAINfest Global, Neustar and Sedo
  DOMAINfest Global has named the Keynote Speaker for their January conference in Santa Monica, Califo…
• The High End of the Domain Aftermarket Stages a Comeback With Five 6-Figure Deals
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. The high end of the aftermarket staged a…
• New ICANN CEO Takes a Slap at Domain Investors in Letter to Congressmen
  Those who have been wondering where new ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom would come down on the organization…
• The Domain Auction Houses Will Be Hopping the Remainder of This Week
  The remainder of this week will be exceptionally busy ones for most of the major domain auction hous…
• Despite Repeated Setbacks Aron Meystedt Never Quit & Now His Persistence is Paying Off
  The new September Cover Story is out at DNJournal.com. Despite nearly a dozen false starts, 29-year-…
• New Verisign Report Says the Total Number of Registered Domains Rose 9% Since Last Year
  Verisign's latest quarterly Domain Name Industry Brief reports the total number of registered domain…
• New Study Provides Good News for Domain Owners Who Are Developing Content-Rich Websites
  A new six-year study provides good news for domain owners who are developing their own content-rich…
• Expect ICANN's Planned Rollout of New gTLDs to Be Delayed Again
  ICANN plans to begin its rollout  of an unlimited number of new gTLDs in the first quarter of 2010…
• Free Webinar Offers to Show You "How to Sell Domain Names Fast and for Maximum Value"
  A free webinar next week is offering to show you How to Sell Domain Names Fast and for Maximum Value…
• Highest Hyphenated Domain Sale Ever Reported Leads This Week's Top 20 Chart
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. Hyphenated domains have always been view…
• New Conference Aims to Help You Sell More of Your Online Ad Space to Local Businesses
  A new conference coming to New York City in February plans to provide expert advice on selling your…
• Blog Publishers See Ad Revenues Soar & .Biz Gets a Boost from 1-Letter Domain Development
  A New York Times report says ad revenues for popular blogs soared in the first half of 2009 while th…
• TrafficZ and GM Jonathan Boswell Part Ways, Boswell to Run His Own Monetization Company
  TrafficZ and General Manager Jonathan Boswell have parted company. Boswell has now turned his attent…
• Conference Promoters Sweeten the Pot With Added Incentives to Attract Early Bird Registrants
  Organizers of next month's T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Conference in New York City and the Domainer Mardi Gras co…
• Wild Week for Domain Sales: $2.8 Million ccTLD Sale Revealed + 600K .com & BIG .Mobi Deal
  The weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com and it was an especially interesting week wit…
• Spreading the News: How a Home Grown Media Corps Helped Trigger a Boom in the Domain Business
  Domain blogs, forums, publications, podcasts and video productions have provided the tools that have…
• Moniker Brokers 6-Figure Sale of Casino.mobi
  Oversee.net has announced that its Moniker.com division has successfully brokered a 6-figure sale of…
• Should We Declare War on Domaining.com?
  The content on Domaining.com consists of headlines culled from industry blogs and publications (incl…
• Has ICANN Opened Pandora's Box? New gTLD Lawsuits & Recriminations Already Underway
  New gTLDs are still months away but the lawsuits and recriminations have already begun. Turf battles…
• Year's 6th Reported 7-Figure Deal Tops DN Journal's Weekly Domain Sales Report
  Sedo rang up the year's 6th reported 7-figure domain sale this past week and went on to sweep the fi…
• Neustar Gets Nod to Operate .CO Registry & Creates .BIZ Buzz By Releasing 1 & 2 Character Domains
  With announcements yesterday and today, Neustar, the operator of the .BIZ registry, laid out plans t…
• Industry Pioneer Warren Weitzman Regains Stolen Domains - Explains How Theft Happened
  Last month we told you about a major domain hijacking incident in which more than a dozen names were…
• Rumble in the Domain Jungle: 2010 To Open With 3 Domain Conferences in Less Than 4 Weeks
  TRAFFIC is going back to Las Vegas for a big show at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino January 21-23. Tha…
• Public Company Merges With Minds + Machines to Chase New Top Level Domains
  Top Level Domain Holdings, Ltd. today announced that it has completed a merger with Minds + Machines…
• Domainer Mardi Gras Announces Dates and New Location for 2010 Conference in New Orleans
  Organizers of the Domainer Mardi Gras conference announced today that they will be back in the Big E…
• Richard Gabriel Sells DropShippers.com for $1.5 Million - His 2nd Seven-Figure Sale in 5 Months
  Richard Gabriel, the man who sold Auction.com for $1.7 million in March has just closed another bloc…
• .Pro Set to Offer 1, 2 and 3-Character Domains & .Mobi Launches New Resource Center
  RegistryPro, the operator of the .pro TLD, says it has reached an agreement with ICANN that will all…
• AfternicDLS Continues Expansion With New Partnership & Latona Releases Catalog for Next Auction
  The AfternicDLS has expanded its global domain sales network again, this time through a partnership…
• Four 6-Figure Sales Lead the Pack as the Aftermarket Continues to Defy the Dog Days of Summer
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. The new column actually covers the past…
• Wedding Bells Ring for Rubber Duck (AKA Dave Wrixon) & New GM Exchanges Vows With Oversee
  Marriages made in heaven? Veteran domain industry exec Craig Snyder (Internet REIT & Marchex) exchan…
• My Supernatural Vacation: A Remote Beach, A Victorian Mansion & A Ghostly Encounter
  Ron Jackson is back from vacation with an account of a diverse week divided between one of the world…
• Sedo Reports Strong 2nd Quarter Domain Sales: Their Average .Net Price Topped .Com!
  Sedo says that, despite the recession, demand for premium generic domain names remained strong at th…
• Companies Owned By One of World's Richest Men Found Guilty of Reverse Domain Hijacking
  This was not a good week for one of the world's richest men - Hong Kong based billionaire Li Ka Shin…
• Wikipedia Wakes Up: Stops Redirecting Domaining Searches to a Cybersquatting Page
  Wikipedia had yielded to protests from the domain community and stopped redirecting people to a page…
• ICA Says Congressional Challenge Could Delay New gTLDS Planned By ICANN
  Major Breaking News: ICANN's plans to break ties with the United States has hit a roadblock as sever…
• Strong Week of Domain Sales Overcomes the Summer Doldrums
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com, A pair of blockbusters headline our new…
• Open Season on Domainers: L.A. Times & Wikipedia Abandon Objectivity and Accuracy
  It is apparently open season on domainers and domaining. An overtly biased article on the L.A. Times…
• Domaining is Cybersquatting? Wikipedia Thows Its Credibility Out the Window
  New DN Journal Newletter: Domainers were stunned when Wikipedia recently started redirecting a searc…
• Domain Thief Lands in Jail After Picking the Wrong People to Steal From
  A New Jersey man has been arrested for hijacking a 6-figure domain name from an ownership group that…
• Local Directory Services Provider Local Matters Helps Put America.us on the Map
  Providers of local directory services are helping domain owners ramp up development at a rapid pace.…
• An Inside Look at Bruce Marler's Effort to Build an Online Local Media Empire at Missouri.me
  We believe the best way to build a successful online business is to find a niche and fill it. Missou…
• Rick Latona Auctions Seeking CPA, Lead Gen & Affiliate Marketing Domains for Online Auction
  Rick Latona Auctions is looking for submissions for a themed online auction coming up August 21-28.…
• Weekly DN Journal Sales Report: .de Leads the Top 20 & .US Makes Its 2nd Straight Appearance
  DN Journal’s new weekly domain sales report is out and ccTLDs turned in another strong showing, ta…
• T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Will Return to Las Vegas in 2010 & They Want Your Help in Picking the Dates
  The T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference bypassed Las Vegas this year but the show will return to the popular d…
• Michael Berkens - The Untold Story Behind The Best Kept Secret in the Domain Business
  DNJournal.com Cover Story - Michael Berkens is one of the most successful investors in the history o…
• Sedo's New Monthly Industry Spotlight Page Highlights Deals On Real Estate Domains
  Sedo has just announced a new monthly Industry Spotlight feature that will highlight domains current…
• Sedo's New Domain Price Suggestion Tool - Can Automated Appraisals Be Taken Seriously?
  Sedo is about to unveil a new Price Suggestion Tool aimed at providing domain owners with guidance o…
• A Domain Industry Family Member Has Died in a Portland, Oregon Auto Crash
  A one-car crash in Portland, Oregon has taken the life of 38-year-old NetXposure CEO Devin Donnelly.…
• eNom Issues Official Statement on Domains Stolen from Warren Weitzman's Account
  eNom has issued an official statement on the domains stolen from industry veteran Warren Weitzman's…
• $228,000 .Com Sale and Year's Biggest .US Deal Headline DN Journal's Weekly Report
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. A trio of six-figure sales led by one th…
• HIJACKING ALERT! Over a Dozen Domains Stolen From Industry Pioneer's Account
  Warren Weitzman's worst nightmare has just come true. He has been in the domain game since 1994 but…
• Long Weekend Getaways Are Great But There Is No Escaping Domain Names!
  I took my wife on a romantic getaway this past weekend and though I rarely went online I couldn't he…
• Dates and New Location Announced for the 2010 DOMAINfest Global Conference
  Dates and a new location for the 2010 DOMAINfest Global Conference have been announced. Oversee.net'…
• New White Papers Promote SEO Benefits of Generic Domains & .ME as a Marketing Platform
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  A new survey of business marketers from Forrester Research says that 60% of respondents intend to in…
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  Geodomain owners who hope to replace traditional media outlets in their cities are testing a variety…
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  Big news about the GeoDomain Expo. DN Journal reveals the dates and location for the 2010 show - cho…
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  Oversee.net is combining the resources of two of its key companies, Moniker and SnapNames, to produc…
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  The domain community was represented at the Michael Jackson public memorial service in Los Angeles t…
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• New Weekly Domain Sales Report from DNJournal.com: ccTLDs Still Rocking
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  Domain Roundtable was the 6th major conference in the past 6 months. Could there possibly be anythin…
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  Country code fans have three more reasons to party down this week. ccTLDs, including the biggest cou…
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  Here is Ron Jackson's view of the new T.R.A.F.F.I.C. alliance between Rick Latona, Rick Schwartz and…
• Photos and Highlights from the Closing Day and Night at Domain Roundtable
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: Exclusive photos and highlights from the closing day (and nig…
• DN Journal's Photos and Highlights from the Past 24 Hours at Domain Roundtable
  Today in the Lowdown at DNournal.com: Photos and highlights from Monday and Tuesday events at the 20…
• DN Journal's Photos and Highlights from the Start of Domain Roundtable in Washington D.C.
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com. Photos and highlights from the Domain Roundtable conference t…
• New DN Journal Cover Story: ccTLDs Take Center Stage
  The new June Cover Story is out at DNJournal.com. It is a detailed account of the biggest coming out…
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• Final Countdown to Domain Roundtable, A New Face at NameMedia & the Latest on .NYC
  Today in the Lowdown at DN Journal: The Domain Roundtable conference gets under in Washington D.C. l…
• Real Estate Domain Auction - Will it Flop or Fly? Also, Why ICANN May Become Even More Unaccountable
  A heavily advertised auction of geo-targeted real estate domains will be held Thursday in San Franci…
• Pair of 7-Figure Blockbusters Headline DN Journal's Weekly Domain Sales Report
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. This week's hit parade is led by a pair…
• People in the News: Skip Hoagland, Dan Warner, Simonetta Batteiger, Gregg McNair & Rick Schwartz
  Today in the Lowdown at DN Journal: Domain industry people in the news including geodomain giant Ski…
• T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Slashes Early Bird Prices for T.R.A.F.F.I.C. New York to New Lows
  With a successful show in Amsterdam now behind them, T.R.A.F.F.I.C. organizers slash early bird pric…
• Photos and Highlights from the Farewell Party at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Amsterdam & The Day After
  Today in DN Journal's Lowdown: Photos and highlights from the closing night party at the T.R.A.F.F.I…
• Final Day Photos and Highlights from the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. ccTLDs Conference in Amsterdam
  Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: Photos and highlights from the final day at the T.R.A.F.F.I.C…
• Wednesday Photos & Highlights from T.R.A.F.F.I.C Amsterdam Including Kevin Ham's Keynote
  Today in DN Journal's Lowdown: Photos and highlights from Wednesday's schedule at the T.R.A.F.F.I.C.…
• Photos & Highlights From the First Full Day of Business at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Amsterdam
  DN Journal has just posted photos and highlights from the the first full day of business at the T.R.…
• DN Journal's First Report from Amsterdam Where the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. ccTLDs Conference Begins Tonight
  Today in the Lowdown at DN Journal: our first report from Amsterdam where the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. ccTLDs…
• Jay Westerdal Launches a New Website Devoted to His Legal Battle With Thought Convergence
  Jay Westerdal has set up a new website to post developments in the ongoing lawsuit filed by Thought…
• Shows.com Leads the Cast on This Week's DN Journal Top 20 Domain Sales Chart
  Sales from the two live domain auctions at last month's T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Silicon Valley conference sta…
• Domain Roundtable to Help Raise Funds for the ICA By Selling Donated Domains During Live Auction
  Thought Convergence, the organizers of the Domain Roundtable conference coming up June 14-17 in Wash…
• The Latest GreatDomains Auction Ends Thursday Afternoon & the AfternicDLS Expands Its Reach
  Sedo's latest GreatDomains premium domain auction ends Thursday afternoon at 1pm (U.S. Eastern time)…
• Miracle Man: How German Domainer Markus Schnermann Beat the Odds and Hit It Big
  German domainer Markus Schnermann is the picture of good health: physical, mental, financial - you n…
• DN Journal's New Monthly Newsletter Previews T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Amsterdam
  DN Journal's latest monthly newsletter features an exclusive interview with RickLatona.com President…
• Holiday Weekend Gets Off to a Good Start at the Jackson Household But the Party is Already Over
  Ron and Diana Jackson kicked off the long Memorial Day Weekend enjoying a visit from a domain indust…
• Michael Mann and Rob Monster Will Make Speaking Debuts at Domain Roundtable
  Attendees at next month's Domain Roundtable Conference in Washington, D.C. will see two industry hea…
• Year's Biggest Non .Com gTLD Sale & 3rd Highest ccTLD Deal Top DN Journal's Weekly Report
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. The high end of the market returned this…
• Sedo Begins Month-Long Auction Binge & TRAFFIC Amsterdam Enters the Final Countdown
  Today in DN Journal's Lowdown: Sedo begins a month-long auction binge on Thursday, the T.R.A.F.F.I.C…
• Companies in the News: The AfternicDLS, DirectNic, NameJet and PremiumDomains.com
  The AfternicDLS has expanded its reach thanks to a new registrar partner, Directnic.com, NameJet wil…
• Thought Convergence Issues Statement on Jay Westerdal Termination.
  While we believe that employment matters should be dealt with internally rather than in a public dis…
• Breaking News: Thought Convergence Has Filed Suit Against Jay Westerdal
  A search of court records shows that Thought Convergence filed suit against Jay Westerdal, his fathe…
• High End of the Aftermarket Missing This Week But the Low to Mid Range Marches On
  The price tag on the #1 domain on DN Journal's new weekly sales chart is the lowest we have seen for…
• Breaking News: Jay Westerdal Terminated by Thought Convergence
  Jay Westerdal, who sold his company, Name Intelligence, LLC (which included DomainTools.com and the…
• Dr. Kevin Ham Makes a Major Move Aimed at Becoming a Global Leader in Interactive Media
  Dr. Kevin Ham's Reinvent Technology is making a bold move toward becoming a major player in the conv…
• DN Journal's Comprehensive Review of T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Silicon Valley
  The 15th show in the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference series was staged April 27-30 in the Silicon Valley.…
• 2009: The Year PPC Gives Way to New Methods of Domain Monetization?
  In any case, it looks like 2009 will at least be The Year of New Domain Monetization Initiatives. Th…
• Ron Sheridan is Back With a New Company That Says It Can Cure the Domain Monetization Blues
  Ron Sheridan is back in the saddle again. Less than 3 months after the legendary director of busines…
• Sunny Days for GeoDomains: DN Journal's Review of the 2009 GeoDomain Expo
  The annual GeoDomain Expo, staged by Associated Cities, has a history of presenting exceptionally hi…
• Domain Aftermarket Stages Strong Rebound in the Opening Quarter of 2009
  Domain sales in the 1st quarter of 2009 rebounded sharply from a dismal showing in the closing quart…
• World's Most Famous Domainer Will Be The Keynote Speaker at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Amsterdam
  In a coup for the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. ccTLDs conference coming up in Amsterdam June 1-4, show promoter Ri…
• Atlanta.com Owner Skip Hoagland Stages a Talent Raid on that City's Local Newspaper
  In another sign of the times, Atlanta.com is making a bold attempt to lure writers, reporters and ma…
• Double Length Report at DN Journal Covers Domain Sales Reported Over the Past Two Weeks
  After a week off for T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Silicon Valley, DN Journal has published a double length domain…
• "Zappy" Zapolin Unleashes Internet Warrior & New Video Captures Main Street View of Domainers
  Mike Zappy Zapolin has opened the doors at InternetWarrior.com where the widely respected domain inv…
• $1.4 Million Ad.com Auction Win Puts Divyank Turakhia in the YouTube Spotlight
  YouTube spotlights Skenzo/Directi Co-Founder Divyank Turakhia in two videos from the Ad.com auction…
• Sedo Sweeps the First Five Spots on This Week's Top 20 Sales Chart at DN Journal
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. Sedo was firing on all cylinders this we…
• New Articles Provide More Evidence of What Time Calls "The New Internet Start-Up Boom"
  A small business start-up boom continues to gain steam in the midst of the recession as laid off emp…
• Bad Environment for Business? Owners of Three New Domain Related Companies Think Not
  With the severe downturn in the general economy this might not seem like the best time to open a new…
• Is Twittersquatting the New Cybersquatting?
  Is Twittersquatting the new Cybersquatting? Pingdom.com says it is and they have some interesting fa…
• First Newspapers, Now Magazines. New Data Shows the Bloodbath Expanding in Old Media
  The Internet is the ONLY media platform expected to see a growth in ad revenues this year. Everyone…
• Keynote Speaker Named for T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Silicon Valley
  The keynote speaker has been selected for the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Silicon Valley conference coming up Apr…
• GoDaddy Sued for Alleged Cybersquatting in Their Domain Parking Program
  GoDaddy is being sued for alleged cybersquatting in their domain parking program. Ubid, Inc. filed t…
• $250,000 Domain Tops New DN Journal Chart & ccTLDs Take 3 Spots in the Top Ten
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. Last month Richard Gabriel sold Auction.…
• Moniker Releases T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Silicon Valley Auction Catalog With Over 5,500 Domains
  The complete catalog for Moniker's live and extended online domain auctions at this month's T.R.A.F.…
• Good News for Domains: Time Says "The New Internet Start-Up Boom" is Underway
  Last month we wrote about seeing a nice uptick in domain sales to small business end users. The new…
• New Cover Story at DNJournal.com: Who Neu? The Life of a Multi-Talented Domainer
  DN Journal's new Cover Story profiles domain attorney & T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Co-Founder Howard Neu. As a t…
• Physicians.com Sells for $250,000 & Hot Water Rises Around ICANN's Plan to Flood the Web with New TLDs
  Physicians.com changes hands for $250,000. Plus, hot water continues to rise around ICANN's plan to…
• New Study Shows Generic Domains Give Search Engine Ad Campaigns a Huge Boost
  A new study underscores the value of generic domain names, especially with respect to using them to…
• 2009 GeoDomain Expo Preview: Development To Take Center Stage in San Diego
  The 2009 Associated Cities GeoDomain Expo will be staged in San Diego April 23-25. To get the inside…
• Industry Standard Says "Latest Plan for Domain Names is as Doomed as .coop and .mobi."
  ICANN's plan to flood the Internet with an unlimited number of new global domain extensions continue…
• New Weekly Domain Sales Report at DNJournal.com
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. For the first time since early February,…
• USA Today Quotes DN Journal on ICANN's Plan to Flood the Internet with New TLDs
  A new USA Today article was published today about ICANN's plans to roll out an unlimited number of n…
• New OzDomainer.com Podcast Puts Ron Jackson on the Other Side of the Interview Table
  Australia's Ed Keay-Smith has released a new interview in his popular podcast series at OzDomainer.c…
• Domain Roundtable Releases the Agenda for Their June Conference in Washington D.C.
  The Domain Roundtable Conference, coming up June 14-17 in Washington D.C., has announced the agenda…
• A Popular Domain Industry CEO is Stepping Down and.the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Silicon Valley Agenda is Out
  Today in DN Journal's Lowdown: The popular CEO of Fabulous.com's parent company, Dark Blue Sea, is s…
• Bido Helps Bail Out the Burros, The Smart Method Behind Domain Madness & An Appealing Expo Agenda
  Today in DN Journal's Lowdown: A Bido charity auction raises over $2,000 for an endangered animal sh…
• $300,000 Domain Claims the Top Spot on DN Journal's Weekly Sales Chart
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. A $300,000 sale that ranks among the yea…
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  Both of Chicago's daily newspapers are now in bankruptcy after the Sun Times files for court protect…
• Rick Schwartz Issues a Forecast for T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Silicon Valley & The Industry at Large
  DN Journal's latest monthly newsletter features a conversation with Rick Schwartz that reveals what…
• Rick Schwartz Says Some Domainers Will Get Rich in the Recession, But Not With Domains!
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  The theme for next month's GeoDomain Expo in San Diego will be Freefall! (How to Monetize the Collap…
• The Ultimate Guide to Everything Twitter - Twemendous Tips for Tweaking Your Tweets
  A sizeable community of domainers has taken over a corner at Twitter.com, the increasingly popular s…
• A New Combatant Enters the MiniSite Wars & Bido.com Announces Another Format Change
  The rapidly growing domain mass development sector that we wrote about in our current Cover Story go…
• New Weekly Domain Sales Report at DN Journal Led By Year's Third 7-Figure Sale & Surging ccTLDs
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. Our latest Top 20 Chart is led by the ye…
• In the Lowdown at DN Journal Today: .Tel, Rick Schwartz, Kevin Ham, the ICA and the Grim Reaper
  The new .tel extension opened for public registration today...Rick Schwartz will appear on a live we…
• Don't Be an Ass - Befriend a Burro! Domainers Fight to Save an Animal Rescue Facility
  This industry attracts more good-hearted people than any I've ever been a part of. Another example o…
• New Companies Are Making the Dream of Affordable Mass Domain Development a Reality
  Domain name owners have long dreamed of a day when it would be possible to affordably develop their…
• The Hatchets Have Been Buried: Associated Cities Leaders Announce A Major New Agreement
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• Time for a Pity Party? Sorry, No Time for That in This Business!
  The past couple of days I've talked about improving sales in the domain aftermarket this month. Mayb…
• March Surprise: Is the Domain Aftermarket Uptick a Blip or the Beginning of a Rebound?
  Is that a ray of light we see at the end of the tunnel or a train coming our way? Things are looking…
• Spring Fever Hits the Domain Aftermarket with Solid Sales at Every Level
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DN Journal (this one actually covers two weeks since we…
• "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Poorhouse" - Alternate TLDs Are Finally Paying Off
  Six months ago it looked like the financial world was ending. Now I'm having my best month ever and…
• Full Steam Ahead: The GeoDomain Expo is a Go and We Have a First Look at the Show Agenda
  The decision is in - after several days of uncertainty due to boardroom bickering, Associated Cities…
• Tomorrow Will be a Landmark Day in the Media World (and for the Domain Business Too)
  Tuesday will be a landmark day in the media world (and an important one for the domain business as w…
• Latest on the GeoDomain Expo: Indications Are the Board Will Vote Monday to Proceed With the Show
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• Photos & Highlights From a Vacation Visit to Charleston SC (With a Domain Twist Of Course!)
  I just returned from spring vacation visit to one of America's most history rich and picturesque cit…
• GeoDomain Expo Update: Three Board Members Resign and Attorney's Advice Sought
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• Go or No Go? Official Status of GeoDomain Expo Remains Unresolved Amid Conflicting Reports
  Associated Cities Co-Founder Josh Metnick says an official statement regarding the status of next mo…
• Transfer of Toys.com Completed Over the Weekend and Sedo Announces a $450,000 Sale
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• Industry Execs Comment on Domain Investing in 2009 and Beyond
  DN Journal's latest monthly newsletter has comments from executives at Sedo, Parked.com and Neustar…
• Condolences to Veteran Domain Investor Marc Ostrofsky and his Family
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• Toys.com Sale Continues to Bring Mainstream Media Attention to Domains with ABC News Story
  The $5.1 million sale of Toys.com to ToyRUS last Friday continues to draw mainstream media attention…
• The BBC Reports on the Domain Aftermarket: Has the Recession Really Cut .co.uk Prices in Half?
  The BBC has issued a report on the domain aftermarket and the recent $5.1 million sale of Toys.com i…
• German ccTLD Flattens the Competition to Lead DN Journal's New Weekly Sales Chart
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. This week a German country code domain f…
• Today in DN Journal's Lowdown: 2009 GeoDomain Expo Registration Opens + News from Sedo and the AfternicDLS
  In DN Journal's Lowdown today: Registration opens for the 2009 GeoDomain Expo in San Diego, Sedo's n…
• Domainer Mardi Gras Lets the Good Times Roll: DN Journal Reviews the Big Show on the Bayou
  When someone tells me they are thinking of starting a new domain conference I tell them think of som…
• ICANN President and CEO Dr. Paul Twomey Announces He Will Leave ICANN at the End of the Year
  ICANN President and CEO Dr. Paul Twomey today announced that he will leave the organization after hi…
• Newspapers Close Their Doors as New Report Predicts Local Advertisers Will Double Their Spending Online
  More evidence that domain owners are in the right place at the right time. A new report from the Kel…
• Afilias Publishes a Major Progress Report on the .Info Extension and a Team of Domainers Scores an Upset Win in India
  The operator of the .info registry, Afilias, has released a detailed new report on the progress the…
• High End of the Market Shows Some Life As 3 Sales Totaling Over $700,000 Lead New DN Journal Weekly Chart
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. The high end of the market stirred from…
• The Recession is Producing a Huge Wave of New Search Traffic for Financial Keywords (and Related Domains)
  New research from comScore shows the recession is driving a huge wave of new traffic to search terms…
• On the Road Again - Some Travel Notes as We Head Home from the Frigid North
  We are en route back home to Florida after stops in New Orleans and Ohio. Some things you need to kn…
• Photos and Highlights From the Closing Day of the Domainer Mardi Gras Conference Saturday in New Orleans
  The first Domainer Mardi Gras conference closed Saturday. We have photos and highlights from the fin…
• Bourbon Street Balcony Bash Caps Day 2 at the Domainer Mardi Gras Conference in New Orleans
  Here is a link to DN Journal's Friday photos and highlights from the Domainer Mardi Gras conference…
• Photos and Highlights From the Opening Day of the Domainer Mardi Gras Conference in New Orleans
  We have photos and highlights from the opening day of the Domainer Mardi Gras conference in New Orle…
• Verisign Reports Worldwide Domain Registrations Rose 16% in 2008 with Country Codes Growing at an Even Faster Clip
  Verisign's latest quarterly Domain Name Industry Brief, covering the 4th quarter of 2008, is now out…
• Sedo Books a Sale of More Than $380,000 to Lead This Week's Top 20 Chart at DN Journal
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com.The report is headlined by the second big…
• Domainer Mardi Gras Ready for Its Debut Thursday Afternoon in New Orleans
  Final preparations are underway for the Domainer Mardi Gras Conference that opens in New Orleans Thu…
• Huge Opportunity for Domain Owners: 56% of Small Businesses STILL Have No Presence Online
  New research shows there is a great opportunity for domain owners to profit from a huge untapped poo…
• The Babe Ruth of Business Development: Ron Sheridan's Rise from Orphan to MVP
  The February Cover Story is out at DN Journal. It is the story of Ron Sheridan, the highly regarded…
• Bido.com Plans to Return to the Domain Auction Wars Next Week
  Bido.com is set to make a comeback next week. The one-name-a-day auction platform debuted early last…
• Still Another Top Yahoo Search Exec Jumps to Microsoft - the Third to Switch Sides Since November
  Though Yahoo spurned Microsoft's offer to buy the company last year (and subsequent overtures to buy…
• Michael Gilmour Asks Domainers to Help Victims of the Wildfires That Are Devastating His Australian State
  Massive wildfires are raging through Australia's Victoria state destroying lives and property. Victo…
• RT.TV Tunes in $62,500 to Lead This Week's Action in the Domain Aftermarket
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. A pair of strong country code domains he…
• Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Jumps from DOMAINfest Global to Dancing With the Stars!
  That is the improbable leap that Apple Computer Co-Founder Steve Wozniak is about to make. Fresh off…
• Sedo Ready to Run Their First No Reserve Online Domain Auction
  Sedo has announced its first No Reserve online domain auction will be held February 26 - March 5. It…
• Triumph in Tinseltown: DOMAINfest Global 2009 Raises the Conference Bar (DN Journal's Definitive Show Review)
  DN Journal has just published its comprehensive review of last week's DOMAINfest Global 2009 Confere…
• DN Journal Previews the New Domainer Mardi Gras Conference Coming Up This Month in New Orleans
  The latest addition to the domain conference line-up, Domainer Mardi Gras, will run for the first ti…
• The Decline of Ad Spending and the Rise of SmartPhones (and Why Those Disruptive Forces Will Affect You)
  A new survey of top media and advertising execs says the decline of ad spending and the rise of smar…
• Toys.com Could Change Hands for $1.25 Million if Creditors OK Bankruptcy Auction Results
  Today in DN Journal's Lowdown - an inside report from an under the radar bankruptcy auction where To…
• Sedo Says They Sold More .Infos Than .Orgs in 2008 and That Dollar Volume for .US Domains Jumped 40%
  Sedo has just issued a fascinating study of the 2008 domain aftermarket. Some of the surprises inclu…
• Year's First Reported 7-Figure Domain Sale Tops DN Journal's Latest Weekly Report
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. There was one blockbuster sale but high…
• Wrong Number? The .Tel Land Rush Got Under Way Today But Its Appeal to Domainers Is Limited
  Another new TLD land rush has just gotten underway but most domainers are likely to sit this one out…
• DomainSponsor's Legendary Business Development Director Ron Sheridan Steps Down
  After successfully completing a two-year quest to throw a party for domainers at the Playboy Mansion…
• On the Road Again - Notes on DOMAINfest Global, Domainer Mardi Gras and Europe's 1st T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Conference
  With the DOMAINfest Global Conference running this week in Hollywood, California, we're on the road…
• Kevin Ham's Reinvent Technology and HitFarm Parking Service Are Opening a New Office in Dubai
  Dr. Kevin Ham's Reinvent Technology and the company's domain parking service provider, HitFarm.com,…
• Michael Collins Resigns His Position as Executive Director of the ICA
  Michael Collins has resigned as Executive Director of the Internet Commerce Association in order to…
• Sendori.com is Acquired by the Operators of Ask.com, a Division of Barry Diller's IAC
  In the first major domain company acquisition of 2009, Ask Sponsored Listings (operators of Ask.com)…
• A Major Domain Industry Acquisition Is About to Be Announced
  The acquisition of a well-known domain industry company is about to be announced, DOMAINfest Global…
• Domain Buyers Still Picking Up Low to Mid Range Names But High Ticket Items Stay on the Shelf
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. Continuing a trend we saw develop in 200…
• Kentucky Court of Appeals Reverses Lower Court's Attempt to Confiscate 141 Gambling Related Domain Names
  The Kentucky Court of Appeals has overturned a local judge's controversial order that 141 gambling r…
• Parked.com Replaces Account Reps With New Account Management Teams - "Developer" Included
  Parked.com introduced a new account management system today. In the past each client had just an acc…
• 15 Domain Industry Experts Break Down What Went Wrong in 2008 and Predict What Will Happen in 2009
  DN Journal's annual State of the Industry Cover Story has just been published. After 4 years of robu…
• Domain Industry Layoffs Are Creating a Rich Talent Pool for Companies Seeking to Fill Key Positions
  While no one likes to see domain industry layoffs, there is an upside for start up companies and exi…
• Oversee.net - Parent Company of DomainSponsor, Moniker & SnapNames - Announces a Major Layoff
  Oversee.net, the parent company of three of the best-known brands in the domain industry, DomainSpon…
• TDNAM Gets a New Name, Bob Parsons Dishes About His Average Workday and .US Gets a Plug in TV Guide
  GoDaddy's TDNAM aftermarket domain auction site has a new name - it's now GoDaddy Auctions. In a rel…
• Domain Sales Activity is Light in the First Full Week of the Aftermarket's 2009 Season
  After two weeks that were shortened by major holidays, the domain aftermarket just logged its first…
• New CEO at Yahoo Spurs Hope for a Stronger PPC Competitor & Domainers Doubt Multi-Million $ .Travel Sale
  In DN Journal's Lowdown today: New Yahoo CEO brings hope of a stronger competitor to Google, free vi…
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• FreshDrop Launches Free Domain Backordering With Pheenix
  Our favorite domain name data and aftermarket research service, FreshDrop has just launched their ow…
• Today’s Most Marketable Domains
  Domains are the foundation not just for online business, but for online marketing. At least, that wa…
• Google Spreadsheet Trick Automatically Generates Popular Keyword Lists
  One of the original Google Labs projects, Google Sets, was discontinued and later integrated as a fe…
• FreshDrop Pro’s New Domain Finding Features and Lifetime Discount
  The industry veterans at FreshDrop have recently introduced new features for aftermarket and expired…
• The Pitfalls of Domain Development
  I can’t tell you how many domains I’ve developed for myself, but I can tell you that the number…
• Outsourcing End User Domain Sales Leads with Fancy Hands
  Outsourcing time consuming tasks related to Domaining is something that I’ve thought about over th…
• Another Free High Profile Backlink: Instagram Launches Web Profiles
  Does social media activity contribute to SEO performance? Some say it doesn’t. I’m standing by m…
• Domaining Radar: A Domain Name Registrar for Geeks
  New domain name industry businesses and services are cropping up at an increasing pace. The industry…
• Google Introduces Disavow Backlinks Tool for SEO
  A much-anticipated new tool aimed at combating negative links has just been released by Google. With…
• Free Escrow Service for Domain Name Sales Under $500
  A revolution in buyer and seller protection for an industry that is no stranger to scams and theft i…
• Programmer Helps Narrow List of Decent Five and Six Letter Available Domains
  Web developer and programmer Corey Ballou has developed a new and simple, yet refined application fo…
• Google Launches Consumer Surveys, Offers New Revenue Stream for Publishers
  Google has just launched an innovative new service that aims to monetize web content by providing cr…
• Using Domain Names as the Cornerstone of SEO
  Savvy domain investors have been aware of the concept and benefits of using keywords in their domain…
• Web Development Special: Start With A Great Business Website
  A new year is almost here! I would like to extend a special offer to DotSauce readers seeking profes…
• 5 Tips on Using Social for SEO
  Social media is often overlooked in its roll as an element of SEO. In this article I share 5 areas o…
• GoDaddy Begins Marketing Premium Listings to VIP Accounts
  Late yesterday, I received an email from my GoDaddy Account Manager informing me of a very interesti…
• Domain Flipping: Advanced Tips and Techniques
  When you think of domain flipping what kind of time-span do you associate with it? Are you flipping…
• Investing In Quality Brandable Domain Names
  I’m usually touting the benefits of keyword domain names in many articles. In this post I’d like…
• How Steve Jobs Got The AppStore.com Domain and Trademark For Free
  I’m sure you’ve all heard about Steve Jobs resigning as CEO of Apple. Today, I read a post that…
• 10 More Time-Saving Domain and SEO Bookmarklets
  Last year, my original list of 12 domain name and SEO bookmarklets turned out to be quite a popular…
• Handpicked Expired Domains List, Quality .Coms Available to Register
  This is the fourth in a series of updates featuring handpicked expired domain name lists. These list…
• Hot August, Cool Deal: Professional Website Development Only $300
  Continuing my series of web development special offers here on DotSauce, I am extending great discou…
• Asking Price vs. Make Offer
  This is a decision that domain investors are making continually. By parking a domain or not listing…

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• Verisign reports slowing growth, hikes .Net prices 10%
  .Com base inches forward, .Net prices are increasing. Verisign reported earnings after the bell toda…
• HA Domain name auction grosses $774k, Cute.com and Digital.com sell for 6 figures
  Heritage Auctions’ latest domain name auction goes well. Heritage Auctions latest domain name auct…
• Google registering “MusicKey” domain names for music subscription business?
  Google registering MusicKey ccTLDs. Is this the name of its new music service? Usually, when I see a…
• A look inside today’s virtual domain name tradeshow
  Virtual tradeshow is clunky but presents a good opportunity to chat with domain name companies. I re…
• Interesting .CEO comments started by Paul Kedrosky
  Last night venture capitalist Paul Kedrosky discovered .CEO and tweeted his thoughts on it to his 27…
• Weekly Expired Domain Report
  Domain sales charts — expired or otherwise — make for some strange bedfellows. Any given week p…
• Google and Vint Cerf explain the NTIA transition (video)
  Simple video explains what’s going on with the U.S. government’s role in the internet. Vint Cerf…

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• Verisign Goes Rouge: New gTLD’s: “Registration Numbers on Par With .Co” & .Net is Like One
  During ts earnings call today Verisign (VRSN) brushed away the new gTLD’s saying “Gross registra…
• Verisign Reports: 128.9 Million .Com/.Net Domains; 57.2% Profit Margin & $1.5 Billion In the Bank
  VeriSign, Inc. (VRSN), the registry for .Com and .Net reported its financial results for the second…
• Heritage Auctions Led by Digital.com sells $773,876 in domain names
  Heritage Auction Results total $773,876 which includes the Buyers Premium of 15 % The Heritage aucti…
• Of The 9,025 .Voting Domains Registered Over 97% Registered To Co. With Ties To The Registry?
  One company is responsible for registering over 97% of the 9,025 .Voting new gTLD domain names. We r…
• This Weeks New gTLD 1st Day Totals: .Voting 9,025; .Kaufen 4,325; Consulting 3,852; Media 3,438
  Yesterday a bunch of new gTLD’s went into general availability (GA)  meaning domain names can be…
• Sedo Transactions Total $1M; 52% Are BIN & Open.TV Sells For $25K
  Over the past week, 506 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1…
• You Want To illegally download content in the UK ? You will get some letters but no penalty
  The MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) and RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America…

• Flippa giving away a special link to redeem 1 FREE Domain listing!
  Flippa has certainly ramped up its domain only auctions since Kevin Fink came on board and jump star…
• An Example of Why People Still CyberSquat
  Why do people still cybersquat ? That was a question posed a couple of weeks back on Namepros, and w…
• 3rd Reverse Domain Name Hijacking of The Day: Sin Spirits LLC Guilty On SinVodka.com
  Sin Spirits LLC represented by George M. Dipp, Texas has been found Guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hi…

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• “Battle of Heroes Land of Immortals” domain registration followed by Ubisoft trademark
  Earlier this week, Ubisoft registered the names BattleofHeroesGame.com and BattleofHeroesLandofImmor…
• Ubisoft registers ‘Battle of Heroes’ & ‘Battle of Heroes: Land of Immortals’ domains
  Who knows what is coming next from Ubisoft, but the company made some domain registrations this week…
• Blizzard’s lawyers take control of Blizzard.tv domain, is there something in the works?
  This week, the dispute over the Blizzard.tv name (Case Number: 1528644) was withdrawn after being fi…
• Electronic Arts files Desert Strike trademarks
  Electronic Arts has submitted two new trademark applications for Desert Strike with the United State…
• Complaint Denied: Take-Two loses another domain dispute, this time over GTA.tv
  Take-Two Interactive Software had a pretty good track record in 2013 when it came to domain complain…
• Warner secretly registers domains for several possible Batman vs. Superman film titles
  There’s been a lot of debate over the official title of the upcoming Batman vs. Superman film sche…
• New Trion Worlds game? CEO Scott Hartsman registers “Trove” game domains [UPDATED]
  Could something new be in the works at Trion Worlds, maker of internet game Rift? Several domain reg…

• Valve buys mysterious ‘Steam Static’ domain
  It’s been more than a month since Valve officially announced its Steam gaming machines.  Though t…
• Disney registers DisneyConsole.com domain name through brand protection agency
  It may be something.  Or it may be nothing.  What is for sure is that Disney Enterprises, Inc. has…
• Sony spends a few thousand dollars for TaketheOath.com as PS4 launch date nears [UPDATED]
  In a little less than 2 weeks on November 15, Sony will launch the PlayStation 4 (PS4) in North Amer…