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• Most Wanted Domains to report domain sales in realtime, buys mwd.com
  According to a post on Most Wanted Domains newly launched Facebook page and a corresponding tweet, M…
• SnapNames Spring Auction ends in 1 1/2 hours
  The SnapNames Moniker Spring Auction is set to end in less than 1 1/2 hours – here are the current…
• HEXONET announces more than 1 Million domains under management
  German based HEXONET, a domain technology solutions provider, recently announced that they are now…
• Sedo sells over $2.1M USD in domains the previous week
  Sedo sales just reported their domain sales for the week ending on May 14th, 2012. This past week, 9…
• .CA turns 25 years old today, nearing 2,000,000 registrations
  The domain name registry that operates the .CA ccTLD, Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA…
• Public Interest Registry (.ORG) Soliciting Nominations For Advisory Council
  The operator of the .ORG domain extension, PIR (Public Interest Registry), is looking for nomination…
• .EU domains available for only €0.99 at EuroDNS
  Just the other day Luxembourg based EuroDNS.com announced that they are running a special promotion…

• .ASIA Registry Offering FreeB’s!
  Who knew you could get a free gift simply by registering a domain? Recently the DotAsia Organization…
• Meet the Meet.me $450,000 domain buyer
  The domain name MEET.ME was the highest profiled and most expensive dot me (.ME) domain ever sold. I…
• Sedo Sales for the Week up to May 7th, 2012 – 845 domains for over $1.6M USD
  This past week, 845 reportable transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace, totaling over $1.6 m…

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• 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
  A pair of new white papers (available at no charge) make cases for 1) the value of generic keyword d…
• Marketers Plan More Cuts in Traditional Media Spending As They Shift Money Online
  A new survey of business marketers from Forrester Research says that 60% of respondents intend to in…
• Two of the Year's Highest Ranking Sales Set the Pace in the Domain Aftermarket This Week
  The weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. A pair of 6-figure sales highlighted the act…
• Domain Website Owners Have Been Busy This Week - Here's a Look at 7 Interesting Updates
  Over the past 24 hours we've seen 7 major updates at domain industry websites that are worth checkin…
• Castello Brothers Announce PalmSprings.com Partnership Pairing New Media With Old
  Geodomain owners who hope to replace traditional media outlets in their cities are testing a variety…
• See Africa With Fellow Domainers & Learn How to Save Thousands of Lives Along the Way
  Waterborne diseases kill 2 million children every year. Most of these deaths can be prevented by giv…
• Exclusive from DNJournal.com: Dates and Location for the 2010 GeoDomain Expo Are Revealed
  Big news about the GeoDomain Expo. DN Journal reveals the dates and location for the 2010 show - cho…
• Online Auction Wars Heat Up With Bido's Makeover and a New Monthly Sale at SnapNames
  Oversee.net is combining the resources of two of its key companies, Moniker and SnapNames, to produc…
• Aftermarket.com Auction Sales Dominate DN Journal's Weekly Chart & $380,000 Deal is Done
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. The #1 position on our Top 20 chart went…
• Well-known Domainers Are in the Audience at the Michael Jackson Memorial Service in Los Angeles
  The domain community was represented at the Michael Jackson public memorial service in Los Angeles t…
• The High Value of Generic Domains: Hundreds of Corporations Finally Get It
  You know how valuable generic domain names are for attracting highly targeted traffic, but will the…
• Endangered Assets: Post a Protest By Monday or it May Be Open Season on Your Domains
  Monday is the last day you can lodge a protest with ICANN that may keep over-reaching trademark inte…
• DN Journal Reports 2Q-2009 Domain Sales Results: Total $ Volume Falls 25% from 1Q-2009
  Domain sales results from the just concluded 2nd quarter of 2009 are in and they aren't pretty. The…
• Reverse Osmosis: A Publicly Traded American Corporation Switches from .Com to .US
  A publicly traded American corporation has changed their name and moved from their .com website to t…
• A Half-Million Dollar .Com Sale & the Year's Biggest .Net Sale Top New DN Journal Chart
  After taking a breather last week, six-figure sales returned this week with a $500,000 blockbuster a…
• Oakville.com: A Case Study on How to Efficiently Build and Promote a GeoDomain Website
  The owners of Oakville.com have developed a custom platform they plan to use to build out approximat…
• ccTLDs Are Soaring - Will the Boom Help Bring America's .US Country Code to Life?
  .US fans have often said that America's country code is a sleeping giant. The current global ccTLD b…
• Rodan Media Reconfigures to Handle Growth in Their Domain Development Business
  The company behind most versions of the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference website that you have seen in rece…
• Is This Man ICANN's Next CEO? Plus an ICANN VP Admits They Want to Kill the UDRP
  The Associated Press is reporting that the former chief of U.S. cyber security is the leading candid…
• Another Big Deal in the Partnership Parade: The Castello Brothers Join Forces with LZ Domains
  For the second day in a row, a major entity in the geodomain space has announced a major development…
• New Weekly Domain Sales Report from DNJournal.com: ccTLDs Still Rocking
  After a quartet of six-figure sales last week, the aftermarket downshifted a gear this week with the…
• Partnership Preacher Skip Hoagland Signs Two New Deals to Develop Top Generic Domains
  He is best known for his developed geodomains but thanks to new partnership deals, Skip Hoagland is…
• 2009 Domain Roundtable Provides Rousing Conclusion to the Amazing Conference Race
  Domain Roundtable was the 6th major conference in the past 6 months. Could there possibly be anythin…
• ICA Legal Counsel Phil Corwin Reports from Sydney Where Domain Owner Rights are Under Attack
  The 35th public ICANN meeting is underway in Sydney, Australia and the agenda includes several criti…
• ccTLDs Sweep the Top Three Spots on DN Journal's New Weekly Domain Sales Chart
  Country code fans have three more reasons to party down this week. ccTLDs, including the biggest cou…
• Promoters Gone Wild - With Plans to Double Their Show Count is the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Team Tripping Out?
  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…
• Live Domain Auction in San Francisco Goes Down in Flames - Here's What Went Wrong
  Our post mortem on the real estate related domain auction that flamed out Thursday in San Francisco…
• 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…
• Another Major Newspaper Goes Bankrupt & Free Videos from DOMAINfest Global Go Online
  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!
  In the last big economic downturn domainers like Frank Schilling and Kevin Ham made their fortunes b…
• Shocking New Data Shows Theme for Next Month's GeoDomain Expo Couldn't Be More Timely
  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
  Disagreements among leaders at Associated Cities (operators of the GeoDomain Expo) broke into public…
• 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
  In an update to a story we posted earlier today, we now expect the remaining board members at Associ…
• 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
  An official statement on the status of next month's GeoDomain Expo may be delayed until the attorney…
• 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
  The transfer of Toys.com to Toys R Us looks to have been completed over the weekend. That $5.1 milli…
• 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
  It has been a week of highs and lows for veteran domain investor Marc Ostrofsky. He had dinner with…
• 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…
• After Being Shut Down by School Administrators, a High School Newspaper Beats the System by Publishing Online
  The old system of media gatekeepers deciding who can report the news and what news will be published…
• Markus Frind Works Less Than an Hour a Day But His Website Rakes in $10 Million a Year
  A new article in Inc. Magazine profiles PlentyOfFish.com founder Markus Frind who, working by himsel…
• The Atlantic Ponders the Death of The New York Times and What the New King - Web Journalism - Will Look Like
  With a story called End Times (in the latest issue of The Atlantic), writer Michael Hirschorn has pe…
• 6-Figure Sale at Sedo Leads DN Journal's 1st Weekly Chart for 2009
  Sedo wound up sweeping the top three spots on DN Journal's new weekly Top 20 chart and piled up 10 o…
• No Recession at Directi/Skenzo as They Rank Among Asia's 500 Fastest Growing Companies for the 4th Year in a Row
  Directi/Skenzo continues to defy the recession as the red hot India-based company just landed on Del…
• A Bright Spot in the Current Recession: Marketers Plan to Spend Big on Content Creation This Year
  Despite the recession many marketers are planning to increase their spending in several areas online…
• BusinessWeek Magazine Says Only One Ad Medium - Online - Will Grow in 2009 & The Others Will Never Be The Same
  The success of many domain and website owners is based on online ad spending. While ad budgets in ge…
• 4th Quarter Tailspin Saddles 2008 Domain Aftermarket With a 10% Sales Decline From 2007
  DN Journal's latest free newsletter is being emailed to opt-in subscribers today. With the close of…
• For the First Time the Internet Has Passed Newspapers As a Preferred Source of News
  The Internet has passed newspapers and now trails only TV as the most popular source for news accord…
• The Final Weekly Domain Sales Report for 2008 is Now Out at DN Journal
  The final weekly domain sales report for 2008 is now out at DNJournal.com. Moniker closed a $275,000…
• Ari Goldberger Called It 3 Years Ago: New Data Shows WIPO Cases Have Doubled Since the Current Domain Boom Began
  A new analysis of WIPO cases shows that the number of domain disputes has doubled over the past five…
• Comics.com Plays a Key Role in the Comic Strip Industry's Bid to Survive by Migrating from Print to the Web
  Yet another institution from traditional media, the venerable comic strip, is looking to the web for…
• The Location and Dates for the 2009 GeoDomain Expo Have Been Announced
  The geodomain industry's premier event will be moving to the West Coast in 2009 for a spring time co…
• What Was OnlineNic Thinking!? And How Does Verizon Keep Getting Away With the Same Thing?
  Verizon wins the biggest cybersquatting judgment ever - more than $33 million in a suit against regi…
• NameMedia Withdraws Its Planned $172 Million IPO
  Name Media has decided to pull their planned IPO offering citing market conditions. The Massachusett…
• Domains Defy Christmas Sales Slump With Five 6-Figure Sales Closing This Week
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. In contrast to retailers who are sufferi…
• The 100 Oldest .Com Domains on the Internet: PC World Takes Us Back to the Beginning
  Do you know what the first .Com domain ever registered was? PC World magazine took us back in time w…
• A Veteran Domain Investor Meets Israel's President and Explains Why Domains Rock (Even in a Recession)
  Veteran domain investor Mike Zappy Zapolin of the Internet Real Estate Group met Israeli President S…
• How Acquiring and Developing High Quality Domain Names Gave Warren Royal Control Over His Own Destiny
  The new December Cover Story is out at DNJournal.com. The plunge in parking revenue over the past ye…
• ICANN Plan for New gTLDs in More Trouble as U.S. Government Joins the Skeptics
  ICANN's plan to roll out an unlimited number of new global domain extensions starting next year has…
• Results from Thursday's Sparring Match Between GoDaddy CEO Bob Parsons and Company Critic Andrew Allemann
  GoDaddy CEO Bob Parsons invited a critic of his company, Andrew Allemann of DomainNameWire.com, to b…
• GreatDomains Auction Sales Dominate DN Journal's New Weekly Sales Chart
  A huge batch of completed sales from Sedo's GreatDomains.com premium auction site dominate the new w…
• GoDaddy Founder Bob Parsons, Fresh Off a $2 Million Party for Employees, Spars With a Company Critic Today on His Radio Show
  GoDaddy celebrated a 42% jump in sales this year by throwing a spectacular $2 million holiday party…
• National Advertisers and TM Owners Call on ICANN to Stop Its Planned Roll Out of New gTLDs
  A powerful trade association representing thousands of famous brands has called on ICANN to halt its…
• Why There May Be a Silver Lining in the Dark Cloud Google Placed Over Parking Companies Last Week
  Google put a dark cloud over the heads of domain parking companies when they went into direct compet…
• Are the PPC Companies Toast? DN Journal's Take on Google's New Parking Plan
  Anyone in North America (and eventually the world) who wants to park a domain can now go directly to…
• Tribune Bankruptcy: "The notion that the local newspaper will always be there - no matter what - is no more."
  The ongoing migration of ad money to the web played a major role in the Tribune Company's stunning b…
• Many Domain Owners Depend on Online Advertising But the Recession is Killing Ad Revs, Right? Wrong!
  The advertising industry's top forecasters are predicting that online advertising will keep growing…
• Past Week Produces a Trio of Six-Figure Sales Including One of the Year's Ten Biggest ccTLD Sales
  Domain buyers were busy last week, ringing up three six-figure sales including one of the ten bigges…
• DOMAINfest Global Registrants Are Looking Forward to a Special Party at the Playboy Mansion Next Month
  Those going to the DOMAINfest Global conference in Hollywood, California January 27-30 will be treat…
• A Webinar You Won't Want to Miss: Michael and David Castello on Developing Domains
  Brothers Michael and David Castello (who were the subject of a popular DN Journal Cover Story two ye…
• Domain Thieves Becoming More Brazen with Hijackers in the Ukraine and Iran the Latest to Strike
  Tis the season to be jolly - unless you are victimized by one of several domain hijackers currently…
• New Reports from Verisign and Nominet Size Up the Domain Registration Market as ccTLDs Continue to Rock
  New reports from Verisign in the U.S. and Nominet in the UK show total domain name registrations con…
• Jon Lumpkin Leaves Richmond.com to Help Skip Hoagland Build an Ambitious Dual Purpose Site on Alexandria.com
  After award winning work at Richmond.com, Jon Lumpkin has left to join Skip Hoagland's Domains New M…
• Pair of $150,000 Sales From Rick Latona's Live Auction in Australia Lead This Week's Domain Sales Chart
  Though the long Thanksgiving weekend in the U.S. shortened the work week to just three days for most…
• Rand Fishkin Says SEO is Hot Again and That the Recession is a Big Reason For the Boom
  Are Fishkin's comments counter intuitive? Not really. The web is the most efficient business platfor…
• Domainer Stephen Webb Turns to Development and Finds an Audience With WeAreRadio.com.
  Today in the Lowdown: An introduction to our new comprehensive review of the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Down Und…
• Fabulous Affair: DN Journal's Comprehensive Review of T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Down Under
  DN Journal has published its comprehensive review of the first T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference ever held o…
• The Economy Is Tanking But Online Ad Spending Is Expected to Set Another New Record in 2009
  Here is still another reason to be thankful this weekend - the continuing growth of the online adver…
• Egypt: An Inside View of This Stop on the Domain Industry's October/November World Tour
  Over the past few days, we've given you an inside view of domain events in Australia and on the Fren…
• Country Code Domains Dominate DN Journal's New Weekly Sales Report
  Country code domains turned in the strongest performance we have seen since starting our weekly doma…
• An Inside Look at the 3rd Annual SedoPro Partner Forum on the French Riviera
  Photos from the 3rd Annual SedoPro Partner Forum held on the French Riviera make us wish we could ha…
• After a 32-Hour Trip Home Some Extra Photos and Notes from T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Down Under
  We're back from the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Down Under conference in Australia with some additional notes and…
• Final Notes Before Heading to Australia for Traffic Down Under and Kudos to Jeff Kupietzky
  I'll be spending the entire weekend flying to Australia to cover next week's T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Down Und…
• Domain Development Trend Continues to Pick Up Steam as Domainers Roll Out New Websites
  Domain development is attracting more and more domain owners who are looking for ways to offset thei…
• How Domains Helped Michael Gilmour Bounce Back Bigger Than Ever After Losing a Fortune Overnight
  In 2003 Australian entrepreneur Michael Gilmour found himself broke after losing a fortune overnight…
• Don't Look Now But Variable Domain Pricing Is Rearing Its Ugly Head Again
  George Kirikos, a veteran domainer and long-time ICANN observer, has spotted language in new gTLD co…
• Four Six-Figure Sales Totaling Well Over $1 Million Lead New DN Journal Weekly Report
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. Four big six-figure sales, totaling well…
• Christmas May Suck for Brick & Mortar Retailers But Experts Predict Double Digit Growth Online
  Forecasters are predicting a bad Christmas season for retailers with one exception - online sales ar…
• Big Sales Week Shaping Up As Sedo Closes Two Deals Totaling $725,000
  DN Journal's next weekly domain sales report (due out tomorrow night) is shaping up as a strong one,…
• Is SEO Dead? Micah Baldwin Says There Is a Better Way to Build Traffic
  If you do SEO for a living, you will be out of business or irrelevant in 3 years according to Lijit…
• Online Ad Network CEO Joe Apprendi Says Web Publishers Are Well Positioned to Weather the Recession
  The business pages are filled with bad news but here is some positive information for domain owners…
• The ICA Corrects CADNA's Misrepresentation of Cybersquatting as a Criminal Offense
  The Internet Commerce Association has responded to a press release issued yesterday by the Coalition…
• DN Journal Releases Latest Quarterly Analysis of Sales Trends in the Domain Aftermarket
  DN Journal's latest monthly newsletter breaks down 3Q-2008 domain sales to see what the numbers reve…
• New Weekly Domain Sales Report From DNJournal.com
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. Another big wave of completed live aucti…
• The Lowdown on Why GeoDomainer.com Has Been Down
  Today in The Lowdown at DNJournal.com: The scoop on why social networking site GeoDomainer.com has b…
• Kevin Ham and Chris Hartnett Graduate From the Harvard Business School
  Doctors Kevin Ham and Chris Hartnett have become Harvard Business School graduates after completing…
• BoycottKentucky.com Asks Domainers to Call That State's Governor Today
  BoycottKentucky.com is asking domain owners to call the office of Kentucky governor Steve Beshear en…
• Our Early Voting Experience and Online Polls Where You Can Cast a Ballot
  The U.S. presidential election won't be held until Tuesday but thousands of web surfers have been ca…
• Daughter of Domainer Rob Grant is Breaking Out in the Music Business
  Lizzy Grant, the daughter of veteran domainer Rob Grant, is making a splash in the music business. L…
• A Quartet of Six-Figure Domain Sales Lead New DN Journal Chart
  The new weekly DNJournal.com domain sales report is out with four six-figure sales and a flood of co…
• Ari Bayme Replaces Geodomain Giant Dan Pulcrano as CEO at MovieTimes.com
  Ari Bayme, is taking over as CEO at Movie Times, Inc., a company that owns a portfolio of several th…
• New Photo Gallery Added to DN Journal's Review of T.R.A.F.F.I.C. New York
  We're on the first leg of a one-week vacation trip but before heading out we added an exclusive new…
• T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Down Under Preview: Australia Ready to Welcome Domainers From Around the World
  The T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference heads overseas for the first time November 18-20 when Fabulous.com hos…
• Harvard Business School Bash Brings Domain Industry Execs Face to Face With Bill Gates
  Internet Real Estate Group President Andrew Miller and CEO Mike Zappy Zappolin were among the Harvar…
• Kentucky Judge Rules Against 141 Gambling Related Domain Owners
  Bulletin from DNJournal.com
• Dr. Kevin Ham is Named an Ernst & Young 2008 Entrepreneur of the Year Award Winner
  Reinvent Technology CEO Dr. Kevin Ham, who was the subject of DN Journal's May 2008 Cover Story, has…
• DOMAINfest Global 2009 Lands Apple Co-Founder Steve Wosniak as Their Keynote Speaker
  The DOMAINfest Global 2009 conference coming up in January has scored a major coup by landing Apple…
• USA Today Columnist Tells Readers NOW Is the Time to Get a Domain Name and Build a Website
  In a new column today, USA Today business columnist Gladys Edmunds told her readers that NOW is the…
• Back on Track - The Domain Aftermarket Rebounds Strongly From a Weak Outing Last Week
  The domain aftermarket got back on track this week with a solid outing led by one of the year’s fi…
• Big City GeoDomain Owners Face New Competition as NBC Unveils New Local Portals
  Big city geodomain owners will be facing some tough new competition as NBC-TV begins converting thei…
• Fabulous.com Announces a Live Domain Auction at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Down Under to Benefit the ICA
  Fabulous.com has announced a charity live domain auction to benefit the Internet Commerce Associatio…
• Domain Registrations in Latin America Soared Almost 18% in the Past Year
  Domain registration rates around the world continue to grow at a double digit pace. A new report fro…
• Big Personnel Move Could Shake Up the GeoDomain Industry
  Two key members of the award-winning Branson.com team have left to help Skip Hoagland develop his po…
• Exclusive Photos From Poland's First Major Domain Conference Last Weekend in Cracow
  DN Journal has exclusive photos from the MeetDomainers conference held in Cracow, Poland last weeken…
• Weak Week For the Domain Aftermarket - The Question Is Why?
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. This wound up being the weakest week of…
• The Kentucky Hearing Into That State's Attempt to Confiscate 141 Domain Names is Over
  The Kentucky hearing into that state's attempt to confiscate 141 gambling related domain names was h…
• The ICA is in Kentucky Today Protesting That State's Attempt to Confiscate 141 Domain Names
  The Internet Commerce Association is in Kentucky today, protesting that state's attempt to confiscat…
• New DN Journal Cover Story: At T.R.A.F.F.I.C. New York Domainers Thrived While Wall Street Dived
  The new October Cover Story is out at DNJournal.com. Our comprehensive review of the 2008 T.R.A.F.F.…
• Moniker Releases T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Online Auction Results & Canadian Domainers Form a New Association
  Moniker has released the results from their T.R.A.F.F.I.C. New York online auction. Coupled with the…
• Stephen Douglas and Jay Westerdal Settle Their Lawsuit and the AfternicDLS Expands
  Former Domain Roundtable producer Stephen Douglas has settled a lawsuit against Name Intelligence, t…
• Cellphones.mobi, Games.mobi and XXX.mobi Will Go on the Auction Block November 5
  Some of the .mobi registry's best domains, including cellphones.mobi, games.mobi, blackjack.mobi, do…
• New DN Journal Domain Sales Report Covers the Past Two Weeks of Market Activity
  We were away covering the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. New York conference last week so our usual weekly domain sa…
• Two More Domain Conferences Will Get Underway Over the Next 7 Days
  T.R.A.F.F.I.C. New York is over but two more domain conferences will get underway outside the U.S. o…
• Sedo Has Completed the First Seven-Figure Domain Sale Since the First Quarter of 2008
  Sedo has just completed the first seven-figure domain sale since the first quarter of this year - mo…
• $3 Million Moniker Auction and Annual T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Awards Cap Successful Show in New York
  Organizers of the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference completed their 12th successful run this morning in New…
• Photos and Highlights from the First Full Day at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. New York Wednesday
  Here are DN Journal's photos and highlights from the first full day of the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference…
• Opening Day Photos and Highlights from the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Conference in New York
  The T.R.A.F.F.I.C. New York conference got underway last night. DN Journal has some photos and highl…
• Some Final T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Notes Before Boarding a Plane for Show Week in the Big Apple
  Here's a rundown of what's on tap for day 1 at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Tuesday and some notes on why this con…
• A Record Number of Top Tier Domain Names Are Being Offered For Sale In The Week Ahead
  Between the latest premium domain auction currently underway online at Sedo's GreatDomains and the q…
• Research Firm Says .Com City Domains Could Surpass Local Newspaper, Radio & TV Outlets
  Research firm Borrell Associates has added their voice to the chorus that believes .com city domain…
• Half-Million Dollar Sale, ccTLDs and GeoDomains Headline DN Journal's Weekly Sales Report
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. We saw a 2-letter .com change hands for…
• T.R.A.F.F.I.C. New York Opens One Week From Today - Here's What's On Tap in the Big Apple
  T.R.A.F.F.I.C. New York is just seven days away. We run down some of the anticipated highlights as s…
• How Directi's Divyank Turakhia Earned His First Million at 18 and Went On to Build a Company Valued at $300 Million
  Divyank Turakhia gives new meaning to the term meteoric rise. As a 16-year-old high school student i…
• BusinessWeek Has Named a 22-Year-Old Domainer One of America's Best Young Entrepreneurs
  California real estate loan broker and domain investor Daniel Negari has been named one of America's…
• New Pew Research Survey Illustrates Why Ad Dollars Will Continue to Flood the Web
  Every two years Pew Research releases a definitive survey showing where the public goes for news and…
• Development Partnership Frees Premium Domain Owner from Dependence on Google and Yahoo
  Another owner of a top generic domain name has taken his asset to another level by teaming up with a…
• Sedo Announces $500,000 Sale of LI.com
  The domain aftermarket continues to hold strong despite the downturn in the general economy and fall…
• $325,000 Sale Leads Trio of Six-Figure Domains to the Top of DN Journal's New Weekly Chart
  It was another solid outing for the domain aftermarket with a trio of six-figure sales leading this…
• ICA Board Member Ron Jackson Comments on Co-Founder Rick Schwartz's Resignation
  Internet Commerce Association Co-Founder Rick Schwartz announced his resignation from the domain ind…
• .Pro ReLaunched With Lower Prices Today and Bido.com Has Bowed Out of the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Live Auction Line Up
  If at first you don't succeed - relaunch. That is what the .Pro registry did today, hoping to lure b…
• Parked.com Brought Florida Domain Owners Together for a Party Last Night in Tampa
  In the kind of local gathering that will become more common as the domain industry continues to grow…
• Verisign's Latest Domain Name Industry Brief Shows Registrations Continue to Boom
  Verisign has released their latest quarterly Domain Name Industry Brief covering the second quarter…
• The Domain Aftermarket Held Steady Despite the Long Labor Day Break
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. A six-figure sale at SnapNames led the h…
• Another New Domain Conference Has Just Been Added to the Crowded Industry Calendar
  Is the world ready for still another domain conference - especially one that will be staged on just…
• Inside "The Domain Game" - What David Kesmodel Went Through to Get His Book Published
  David Kesmodel had to overcome a string of obstacles to get The Domain Game into print. He tells DN…
• Intercosmos Media Group Crew is Blogging Live from New Orleans Today as Hurricane Gustav Storms Through the City
  As Hurricane Gustav is slicing through Louisiana today, an Intercosmos Media Group team including Pa…
• Rick Schwartz Is Mad As Hell And He's Not Going To Take It Anymore
  Rick Schwartz is on the warpath. In an exclusive interview for our new August newsletter previewing…
• Rise of the Web Prompts a Popular Newspaper Columnist To Abandon Ship Before It Sinks
  A prominent newspaper columnist has abruptly quit because he said sports journalism has become entir…
• Why Microsoft's New IE8 Browser Could Be a Knee to the Groin for Google
  A new feature in Microsoft's latest browser, Internet Explorer 8, (released in beta yesterday) could…
• DN Journal Exclusive: Dr. Kevin Ham and Dr. Chris Hartnett Are Heading Back to College!
  Two of the best-known figures in the domain industry are heading back to college this fall even thou…
• Stephen Douglas and Sam Nunez Step Into Key VP Roles at WhyPark and Sedo
  Two well-known domain companies have filled key executive positions by naming new Vice Presidents. S…
• Blockbuster Sales Pace Another Big Week for the Domain Aftermarket
  The usual summer doldrums were sent packing again this week as a quartet of huge six-figure sales le…
• Bad Times? BS! The Opportunities We Have to Choose From Are Unprecedented
  Some old friends who are worried about their jobs disappearing have been asking me if there are stil…
• Radio Ad Revs Sink Leaving the Internet as the Only Medium Still Enjoying Double Digit Growth
  First it was newspapers, then magazines, then TV. Now it's radio singing the declining ad revenue bl…
• My iPhone 3G Arrived Today. Is This Device the .Mobi Killer So Many People Say It Is?
  A week after ordering it, my iPhone 3G showed up today. Here are some initial thoughts on whether or…
• Latest Live Auction Lays an Egg and Geo Domain Sales List gets a New Administrator
  In today's tardy Lowdown post Moniker's latest live auction fails to stir an SEO crowd, we spend a d…
• Bido's Blues Lead to Auction Hiatus and the AfternicDLS Signs a Big Distribution Deal with Name.com
  A second straight day of technical snafus has led Bido.com to pull the plug on the online auction se…
• New DNJournal Weekly Sales Report: One Buyer Doles Out Over a Million Dollars For 11 Domains
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com and it is a jaw-dropper. We saw a half-do…
• Latona Laments a Missed Opportunity in ccTLDs and IDNS. We Add Some Thoughts to the Mix
  Rick Latona, one of the world's most successful .com investors, spends a lot of time traveling aroun…
• Oversee Executive Talks With DNJournal About Layoffs at the Company Friday
  One of the world's leading domain companies, Oversee.net, reduced its workforce by 10% Friday. Overs…
• A Cure for the Sinking PPC Revenue Blues? Sendori.com Thinks They Have the Right Prescription.
  Sendori.com has come up with an innovative domain monetization system that bypasses Google and Yahoo…
• John Berryhill Foils a Reverse Hijacking Attempt With a Swift Kick to the Beech-Nuts
  Attorney John Berryhill has foiled another reverse hijacking attempt, perpetrated this time by a Swi…
• The Countdown to T.R.A.F.F.I.C. New York is Underway With a Free Hotel Offer and Live Auction Preview
  T.R.A.F.F.I.C. New York is just five weeks away and the promotional drumbeat is starting to build. S…
• Howe About That! The Inside Story of One Man's Rise From Low Budget Domain Flipper to Million Dollar Dealmaker
  In four short years Page Howe has become the poster boy for the amazing things that are possible in…
• Survival Has Become "A Struggle of Epic Proportions" for Newspapers Hammered By the Web
  A a struggle of epic proportions. After laying off 36 more people, that's how the publisher of a loc…
• Three-Word Domain Sells for $260,000 to Top New DNJournal Weekly Chart
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. One of the largest three-word domain sal…
• Magazines: The Hits Just Keep on Coming (Hits That Hurt) As Readers and Advertisers Head to the Web
  As the foundations of traditional media continue to crumble, print magazines are the latest to find…
• Forbes.com Readers Love Domains - New Article is #1 on Their Website Today
  Forbes.com writer Charlie Foster just posted a new article about the domain business and he says it…
• A New Study Says Ad Spending on New Media Will Climb 21% This Year As the Web Continues Its Historic Rise
  The general economy is sputtering but the media industry continues to be among the fastest growing i…
• Auction Fever Heats Up in August with Live and Online Events Popping Up Everywhere
  August is shaping up as one of the busiest months ever for domain auction activity. You will need se…
• Dutch Treat: Netherlands ccTLD Takes the Top Spot on DNJournal's Weekly Top 20 Sales Chart
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. The top domain is a Dutch country code n…
• The Domain Roundtable Conference is Heading East - Washington D.C. Will Host the 2009 Show
  The 2009 Domain Roundtable conference will be held in Washington, D.C. at the Grand Hyatt Hotel June…
• New Solutions Seek to Counter Declining PPC Revenues
  As PPC revenues continue to sink, solutions to improve domain monetization are springing up from wit…
• Entrepreneur Magazine Highlights Opportunities in the Domain Industry
  Entrepreneur Magazine has published a very nice article on the domain business by Laura Tiffany titl…
• Generic Domain Names Under Attack: An Alarming Trend in UDRP Proceedings
  With the rise of domain name values in recent years people who would like to separate domain owners…
• Seven Key Building Blocks That Can Help You Construct a Winning Website
  If you are ready to tackle developing one or more of your domain names, Stoney deGeyter has written…
• The U.S. Has Put a Damper on ICANN's Dream of Running the Domain Name System As They See Fit
  The United States has made clear that it has no intention of giving up oversight of the Internet's D…
• A New Report Says the Yellow Pages Are About to Take a Fierce Beating from the Internet
  The next traditional ad medium likely to be slain by the Internet is the Yellow Pages according to r…
• Action.com Attracts 230K to Top DNJournal.com's Weekly Domain Sales Report
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. The top dog this week was a one-word .co…
• Matt Bentley, One of the Industry's Brightest Young Executives, Is Leaving Sedo
  Effective Friday (August 1), Matt Bentley is leaving his post as Chief Strategy Officer at Sedo. In…
• The Computer DN Journal is Written On Died Over the Weekend. Here's Why I Built the New One from Scratch
  When I returned home from the GeoDomain Expo my home computer refused to start. Needing a quick repl…
• MySpace Boss Peter Chernin Thinks the Site is Underpaid for Ads But Video and Mobile May Change That
  MySpace.com is wildly popular but Peter Chernin, the President of parent company News Corp, says ads…
• Drop Wizard Gordon Martin Puts All of His Chips on Country Code Domains
  Drop Wizard Gordon Martin is back in the saddle. After closing his popular drop catching service in…
• Rick Schwartz Has Sold Property.com In a Deal Believed to Be One of the Biggest Ever
  Buyer Brad Geisen, the founder of Foreclosure.com, plans to roll out a revolutionary new real estate…
• Early Statistics From the .ME Launch Show 50% of the Registrants Came From the United States
  .ME is the country code for Montenegro but when the extension was relaunched in a new disguise last…
• Lightning Strikes Twice: DNJournal.com's New Weekly Domain Sales Report Is Out
  6-figure .org sales are rare but this week TWO of them hit the top of the chart. It was also a huge…
• The Incredible Shrinking Newspaper - Will Geo Domains Replace Them As King of the Local Media Hill?
  Our local daily continues its anorexic decline. Meanwhile another major publication hopes to survive…
• O2 Cool - Veteran Domainer Howard Hoffman's New Relationship With Actress/Author Mariel Hemingway
  Major congratulations go out today to long-time domain investor Howard Hoffman (who also operates PP…
• DN Journal's Inside Look at the 2008 GeoDomain Expo Has Just Been Published
  DN Journal's comprehensive review of the 2008 GeoDomain Expo in Chicago has just been published. We…
• End of the Week Tidbits from the Lowdown at DNJournal.com
  T.R.A.F.F.I.C. New York sells a fourth live domain auction seat for their September conference to Bi…
• Rick Latona Fills the 3rd Spot on T.R.A.F.F.I.C.'s New Roster of Five Live Auction Providers
  Moniker.com has always been the only live auction provider at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conferences but the sho…
• Why are Many Potential Registrants of .ME Domains Crying "Woe Is Me" Today?
  Registration of .ME domains opened to the public today but a lot of potential registrants are crying…
• Have Bad Times Hit the Domain Industry Yet? Here's What the Latest Sales Data Shows
  DN Journal has compiled and released the latest domain sales data for the first two quarters of 2008…
• Trio of Six-Figure Sales Highlight Another Strong Week for the Domain Aftermarket
  The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com and once again it was a solid week for th…
• Star-Crossed Domain Video.us is Up For Grabs Again
  For the third time in 15 months, the highest valued .us domain to date - Video.us - is up for grabs.…
• Another Major Player Has Entered the Domain Conference Promotion Game.
  Parked.com and Modern Domainer Magazine will sponsor a show in New Orleans during Mardi Gras week Fe…
• Photos and Highlights from the Final Day of the 2008 GeoDomain Expo in Chicago.
  The 2008 GeoDomain Expo closed in Chicago Saturday (July 12) with a 12-hour day packed with big even…

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• 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…
• New Year Web Development Special: Start 2012 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…
• Web Development, Domaining and SEO Link Roundup for July
  In this month’s roundup I have created collections of the top web development, domaining and SEO n…
• Google Launches Pay For Page Speed Service
  Big news is making rounds in technology circles today. Google has unveiled another innovative new se…
• Opinion Survey: New Top Level Domains
  A few months ago DotSauce asked which proposed new Top Level Domains would be the most valuable. Lo…
• Security Vulnerability When Using Multiple Domains On The Same Host
  DotSauce Magazine was hacked recently, I’ve lost over 20% of web traffic for most of July which pr…
• Domain Holdings Raises $2.9M to Energize DomainPower Development Platform
  Industry veterans Chad Folkening and John Ferber plan to use a large cash infusion to advance a new…
• Getting Back Into The Domain Flipping Rhythm
  I have very much enjoyed managing the DotSauce Domain Club and interacting with members during these…
• Domain Name Price Index Goes Live in Partnership with Sedo
  As reported yesterday by DomainNameNews.com, Sedo has partnered up with researcher/entrepreneur Thi…
• Happy 4th! Come Celebrate With A Special 24 Hour Domain Sale
  To celebrate the Fourth of July with you, I’m offering a special discount on Domain Club membershi…
• Domaining, Online Business and Web Development Link Roundup for June
  Another month brings another big collection of resources related to branding, domaining, online busi…
• Handpicked Expired Domains
  Welcome to the third edition of the new DotSauce Domain Club handpicked expired domains sample. Thes…
• Conference Crasher Giveaway from SEOmoz
  The world’s most respected source for SEO tools and research, SEOmoz is hosting an amazing giveawa…
• My Domain List WordPress Plugin: Market and Manage Your Domains
  A few months ago, I wrote a quick tutorial on building a domain portfolio with WordPress e-Commerce…
• Expired Domains Available to Register
  This is the second edition of handpicked expired domains originally offered to DotSauce Domain Club…
• Turnkey Professional Web Development Special and Free Giveaway
  WordPress has come a long way in recent years. The launch of WordPress 3.0 in 2011 brought about cus…
• Instant Pages: Google Plans to Preload #1 Search Result
  Ranking #1 on Google is about to get a major new perk. Today at a live event, dubbed Inside Search,…
• 12 Tips and New Standards for Optimizing Your Website
  The latest web development standards, SEO ranking factors and social integrations can be a bit much…
• Handpicked Expired Domains Available To Register
  As promised, this week marks the comeback of handpicked expired domains published here on DotSauce M…
• Bringing Back Handpicked Expired Domains! + New Domain Club Offer
  I’ve noticed the need for a more affordable Domain Club membership plan. Our Pro membership (which…

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• A “monster” acquisition, iPhone 5, and Vanity.com
  A look at a few stories I haven’t covered this week… There are a few notable stories in the doma…
• Moniker Spring auction results
  Moniker auction nets close to $20,000 in sales. The Moniker Premium Spring Auction at SnapNames just…
• Dotster moves domains to Domain.com credentials
  Company transfers domains between registrar accreditations. If you start to see domain name registra…
• Oversee.net hires GM for $40M+ travel vertical
  Oversee.net hires GM from online travel industry to run its travel network. Oversee.net has hired Ra…
• 14 funniest domain registrar names
  From dessert names to rather unflattering names, here are 14 odd domain registrar names. People get…
• MLB buys Athletics.com domain name
  Major League Baseball makes another big domain acquisition. Just a couple days ago I was revisiting…
• Intuit buys Apps.net for 24,100 EUR among 25 end user domain sales
  Intuit picks up Apps.net domain name and other notable domain purchases. The biggest name on this we…

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• Facebook Prices IPO At $38 A Share With a $104 Billion Market Cap
  Facebook priced its IPO at $38 a share, raising $16 billion which will be the third largest IPO in U…
• With 3 Hours To Go In The SnapNames Showcase Auction Mama.com Has $155K Bid; MovingCompany.com $150K
  The SnapNames.com/Moniker Spring Showcase Auction ends at 3:15pm today and as of publication there a…
• AriGoldberger Beats Back UDRP on Stage.com, Despite TM, Being Parked & Being Offered For Sale
  AriGoldberger just successfully defended a UDRP on the domain name Stage.com, from a complaint broug…
• Tu.Com Is Sold & Becomes Tu Me
  Another two letter .com appears to have changed hands in the last few days. The domain name Tu.com a…
• Wow Now The UDRP Thing Is Officially Crazy As A Complaint Is Filed Against Vanity.com A Fully Developed Site
  A complaint was just filed with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) on the domain na…
• Moniker/SnapNames.com Brokering FreeSex.com
  Moniker® and SnapNames®, announced today that they will exclusively broker the domain name ‘Free…
• The Top 1,000 Most Popular Baby Name List Is Out for 2011 & All .Com’s Are Taken:
  The Social Security administration published the most popular 1,000 boy and 1,000 girl baby names fo…

• Afternic.com Sells $1.2MM In Domains Led By FitnessGuru.com For $45K
  Afternic.com just published its weekly report of domain name sales totalling $1,209,356 for the week…
• Sedo.com Sells $2.1MM In Domains
  Sedo.com just announced its weekly sales data ending May 14th, 2012. In all over $2.1MM of domains w…
• StocktonGolf.com Lost In A UDRP Based Off A Common Law Trademark To Golfer Dave Stockton
  A one member UDRP panel has just awarded a pretty generic domain name StocktonGolf.com to  Stockton…

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• Samsung files Lunge, Forge, Rivet, Wield, Mission, Victory smartphone trademarks
  Samsung is at it again, this time filing six different trademark applications with the United States…
• Topps domain registrations hint at MechWarrior movie finally being made
  The Topps Company made some interesting domain name purchases this week that hint toward a MechWarri…
• Lucasfilm Entertainment Company files “Star Wars 1313″ video game trademark
  Lucasfilm Entertainment Company Ltd. has filed a trademark application (Serial Number: 85613835) wit…
• Apple files dispute over iPhone5.com domain name [UPDATED]
  Apple is planning ahead for the release of the next iPhone by filing a complaint (Case number: D201…
• Amazon acquires KindleVoice.com, Siri-like functionality closer to release?
  Amazon buys domain names on a regular basis, so it’s no surprise to see the company acquiring the…
• Avengers: Battle for Earth video game headed to consoles [UPDATED]
  The Avengers video game looks to have a title — Avengers: Battle for Earth. On May 3, 2012, a day…
• Sony Pictures looks to have acquired rights to Turok film according to domains
  Back in March, Deadline reported Sony Pictures closed a deal to acquire Bloodshot, the Valiant Comic…

• Square Enix files “Solo Remix” trademark
  According to a recent trademark filed by Square Enix, it looks like you may be able to remix your ow…
• Domain registrations reveal Lucasfilm is working on “Star Wars 1313″ project
  UPDATED May 6, 2012 @ 7:42 PM Est:. Star Wars 1313 now looks less likely related to a new film.  Lu…
• Guardians of Middle Earth game domains registered via brand protection company
  In March 2012, Middle-earth Enterprises (a division of The Saul Zaentz Company), registered domain n…