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For the 8th consecutive year, DNJournal.com kicks off the New Year with our annual State of the Industry Cover Story, an endeavor that brought together ...

Today in the Lowdown at DN Journal: .Com registrations pass another milestone - the 100 million mark. Plus, DOMAINfest Global releases the final agenda for ...

Last week a half dozen ccTLDs and a pair of non .com gTLDs earned placed on DN Journal's all extension Top 20 Sales Chart.. This ...

Europe's Domaining 2012 conference, coming up in Valencia, Spain April 26-28, is still three months away but show organizers have been hard at work for ...

The DOMAINfest Global 2012 conference will be running next week in Santa Monica, California. Over the past couple of weeks I've posted about some of ...

Two more valuable domain names added to auction. Moniker has published the final list of domains for next week’s live domain auction during DOMAINfest, as ...

Casa.com is next online store from Amazon.com’s Quidsi unit. Mi casa su casa… Earlier this month I scooped that Quidsi, the company behind Diapers.com, Soap.com, ...

Trademark office sends office action to PING Golf brand owner. On Wednesday I posted a list of 115 trademark applications that could be related to ...

Opportunity to dine with DOMAINfest speakers quickly disappearing. Want some quality time with Brook Schaaf, John Morris, Lisa Box, Jay Weintraub, or Paul Nicks during ...

Company will apply for about a dozen TLDs, mostly transliterations of .com. VeriSign plans to apply for “about 12″ top level domain names this year, ...

Back in 2009 I met a young man named Alan Schaaf.  Alan had created a site called Imgur that was catching fire.  It was becoming ...

Here we go again.  Another rough day of names.  Remember you don’t have to spend money.  Just kidding we have to spend a little each ...

Barbecue Sauce.  In all seriousness, we certainly need to thank Bob Parsons, Godaddy, Oversee, and dot co for their recently added attraction to DomainFest, Natalia ...

Ay yie yie. Here we go again. I’ve well documentated the fact that I’m not on social media. I joined Facebook once and found myself ...

Goldchains.com hit a pretty good number today at $32,000.  I would imagine that will be one of the higher sales in next weeks top sales.  ...

I believe it’s more difficult to sell a domain name with any type of development as compared to a parked domain name. Many people who ...

I read a press release this afternoon, and it should come as good news for Tucows domain registrants who are looking to sell their domain ...

I learned that Go Daddy was nominated for two Stevie Awards in the Customer Service Department of the Year – Computer Services category and the ...

I saw an article on Business Insider with a link to a page within your Google account where you can see what information Google believes it ...

A little over a week ago, I expressed my dismay that Bari Meyerson no longer works as my Account Executive at Moniker. Today, I want ...

Tweet Actress Rose McGowan filed a complaint (Case Number: 1419570) over the domain name <rosemcgowan.com> with the National Arbitration Forum back in December 2011. Now a three-member ...

Tweet Almost a week after I first reported that Activision had purchased several “Skylanders Giants” domain names like skylandersgiants.com and skylandersgiantsgame.com, it appears the video game company has registered ...

TweetA single-member panel with the National Arbitration Forum has ordered the domain name ryanoneal.com be transferred to Academy Award and Golden Globe Award nominated actor Ryan O’Neal. ...

Tweet It appears Take-Two Interactive Software is going to ramp up online marketing for its upcoming first-person shooter Bioshock Infinite that is set to be released ...

Tweet Electronic Arts filed two trademark applications with the United States Patent and Trademark Office on January 18, 2012, for the term “Trouble Makers”. Serial ...

Last week I asked all of you to help me pick a logo for a new brand we are launching – TutorialsForGeeks.com. The feedback was ...

Heatmaps are an absolutely critical tool for understanding how users interact with your site. Small changes to a site can make a big difference and ...

With DOMAINfest coming-up next week I thought it was about time for me to share some advice on making the most out of Domain Conferences. ...

I am unbelievably excited to announce that DomainInvesting.tv, a dream that started over two years ago, has now become a reality! The final version of ...

I got a very nice email early last week from someone who had discovered my blog and wanted to get started investing in domains. He ...

One of the top Spanish .com in the world just changed hands yesterday. The domain name Viajes.com which is Spanish for Travel has been transferred by ...

The live Domainfest Global domain name auction will be held on February 2nd at noon EST. Online bidding will be available on SnapNames.com As we ...

The domain name YouBuy.com just sold for $35,000 on Sedo The seller appears to be a a company out of China, Guangzhou You Yang Network Technology ...

We just got our list of “Top Deleting Domains For Friday January 27th” from Pool.com and as you can see 26 out of the 30 ...

VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN,  announced financial results for the fourth quarter of 2011 and year ended Dec. 31, 2011 after the market closed ...

PLUS: Apparently, If Your Domain Has 'Dirt' In The Name, Section 230 Safe Harbors Don't Apply; Harvard wants the next Zuckerberg to stay at Harvard; ...

PLUS: Apple is moving deep into the Enterprises in ways IT could have never imagined nor endorsed just a year ago. Lot's of runway ...

Sold for less than $3K, to LucyLingerie.com.VE, LucyLingerie.com has to be one of the DNS best buys of all time. Meet the models ...

All domain conferences are sucking wind these days. So too are most 'domainers.' It was a game that always reminded me of "tag you're it." ...

PLUS: Google’s CEO Dealt Drugs and Knew It, Say Feds; EBay Seller Seeks a Cool $1 Million for President Obama's Chrysler; Joan Rivers undergoes ANOTHER ...

Morning Folks!! I never did this before. But it has been several years since someone new in the domain industry has burst on the scene ...

Morning Folks!! No, I am not blogging again. But as I said, I would chime in from time to time when I discovered something or ...

Morning Folks!! It's December 1, 2011. I started writing this post weeks ago and waiting for just the right moment to publish. Over the last ...

Morning Folks!! The past few months I finally have some satisfaction in that the posts I made were some of my most meaningful. Almost like ...

Evening Folks!! I never discussed my early life but as I put things together on this blog to fill in the blanks I want to ...