In the latest DN Journal newsletter we break down 2Q-2010 domain sales results which showed a big jump from the previous quarter as well as from the same quarter in 2009. We also profile an impressive young woman who is doing some great work for a charity that is widely supported by the domain industry. [...] Continue reading →

As somebody who deals with many up-and-comers in the domaining biz, I get asked every now and then which conferences are the best ones to attend in order to get on the fast track. My immediate response is… Well, there aren’t too many absolutely GREAT ones to begin with nowadays unfortunately. I am talking about [...] Continue reading →

In my last Lowdown post I asked readers to help us identify some people in our massive industry photo archives that I did not have names for. I started the quest with a shot of two lovely ladies. As I expected, our readers came through like champs! En route to getting the IDs I [...] Continue reading →

Sedo makes a consistently strong showing on our weekly Top 20 Domain Sales Chart but the company outdid themselves this week, turning in the best showing by anyone EVER on our all-extension leader board. Sedo's sales blitzkrieg gave them 18 of the 20 chart positions, including all of the first 13 places. [...] Continue reading →

Over the years I have taken thousands of photos of domainers at industry events around the world. I noticed in going through our massive photo archive recently that we have hundreds of photos of people whose names I don't have. I would like to change that and hope you can help. Also today, more news [...] Continue reading →

Along with our Twitter Trending Topics tool, we’ve also released our Typo Domain Finder tool. This tool checks the availability of common typos for a given domain name. The typos can be checked against a variety of different TLDs. This tool is useful both for people looking to capitalize on type-in traffic by [...] Continue reading →

We’ve just released a new tool that we’re calling the Twitter Trending Topic Domains Tool (a mouthful, I know).  This tool grabs the current trending topics on Twitter, then checks the availability of domains matching the Twitter trending topics . Our tool looks at the trending topics in real time, and since Twitter is constantly updating their [...] Continue reading →