I'm currently in Sarasota, Florida where our son will be getting married on the beach this weekend. While I'm in Sarasota - the place where I began a TV sporstcasting career - I will also be researching a possible geodomain project. More details in what will be my last Lowdown post until Tuesday....

The high value of generic domain names was the topic of conversation in two new interviews with industry leaders - Jeff Kupietzky of Oversee.net and Jeff Bennett of Swap.com. One was printed by a Boston business publication and the other kicked off a new video series from Simon Johnson's DomainerIn...

Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: Attendees at the Epik Developer's Conference coming up Sept. 15-17 will find a little something extra in their "goodie" bags - $795 worth of EpikBucks. We'll tell you exactly what those are + we have news updates on October's DN Cruise and T.R.A.F.F.I.C. South ...

DN Journal's new monthly newsletter is out. We connected with Epik.com Founder Rob Monster to learn more about the upcoming Epik Developers Conference, but the discussion wound up covering much more than that, including Monster's take on the shaky state of domain parking and the future of domain dev...

Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: Moniker rings up a 7-figure sale in the DOMAINfest New York Extended Online Auction, country code news featuring ,AU, .NL, .MX and .UK, plus Alexa Raad, the highly successful President and CEO of the .ORG Registry (PIR) will step down next month....

Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: A preview of Germany's biggest domain conference - DomainvermarkterForum - coming up next week in Munich. Plus, why .CA domain owners should rally behind Zak Muscovitch's bid for a seat on CIRA's Board of Directors....

The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. The top sale ranks among the year's 25 biggest to date. Nine country code domains made the all extension leader board and we also saw one of the year's five biggest non .com gTLD sales this week....

The DOMAINfest New York Power Networking Day was held Wednesday (August 18) at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Manhattan. Conference organizer Oversee.net sent us some of show photographer Marvin Yan's pictures from the event so we could share them and the conference highlights with you....

The 1st Annual Epik Domain Developers Conference is coming up Sept. 15-17 in Seattle.The founder of a company that has a portfolio of over 8,000 developed geo domain names will give the keynote address. His speech will be followed by a live auction featuring 100 developed websites with both events o...

Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: Updates on Wednesday's DOMAINfest in New York, a new online auction at GreatDomains, information on the annual .Info Awards Contest (with $15,500 in prize money up for grabs) and a note on Morgan Linton's new video interview with Ray Neu....

The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. Domain buyers were very active again this week. Moniker.com closed a seven-figure package sale as well as a separate 6-figure transaction and Sedo.com scored big with the year's second largest non .com gTLD sale. ...

Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com we identify the two remaining unnamed domainers from our latest Who Are They? photo challenge. Plus, details on a EuroDNS drawing for 20 free passes to the Domaining III conference coming up next month in Valencia, Spain....

Rob Grant, CEO of RealEstateDirectory.com (who was profiled in our April 2008 Cover Story) and John Burke, President and CEO of Select Sotheby's International Realty in northern New York State, have announced a unique partnership with the launch of a powerful New York real estate portal for LakeGeor...

Parking revenues have fallen so far over the past couple of years that some have declared parking to be dead. I wouldn't go quite that far, but there is no denying that parking has become a critically ill patient. In this environment, no one would dream of starting up another parking company, right?...

The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. Another six-figure sale leads our latest Top 20 Chart and many of the names on the elite list come from deals no one has reported before now. Several were part of a $152,000 transaction involving a group of 3-digit numerical domains....

A second Keynote Speaker has been added for next week's DOMAINfest New York Power Networking Day...DNWStats.com adds Parked.com as a partner for their new traffic and revenue verification service...and a large group of 3-Letter ccTLDs have gone on the auction block at NameDrive's NDX Market....

Tired of getting ripped off by people selling domains with bogus traffic and revenue statistics? Andrew Allemann's new DNW Stats service aims to put a choke hold on the cheaters. Also today, some answers to our latest Who Are They? Challenge....

Time for another round of everyone's favorite domain game (OK, so maybe it's the only domain game, but we're not too proud to take the title by default!). What we are trying to do, with your help, is identify some of the people in our massive photo database so we can match names with all of those pr...

The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. The week started with several reports of sales increases for 2Q-2010 vs. the previous quarter and the same quarter a year ago (our own data showed a 38% jump in dollar volume over 2Q-2009). So how did buyers respond to the good news? By tak...

Over the past four months I have been giving the new ecommerce platform at SmartName.com a thorough test to see if their quick development system could breath some life into domains that weren't producing anything parked. Over that time span I have moved about 500 domains into SmartName. Here is wha...

The latest quarterly domain sales data from DNJournal.com & Sedo.com shows a nice uptick in aftermarket activity. Sedo reported its 4th straight quarter of rising sales. Also, T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Dublin promoter Rick Latona weighs in on the over-crowded domain conference calendar & .CO fans get their own...

This month's T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Dublin event will be the first major domain conference ever held in Ireland. In a new interview with show promoter Rick Latona we got details on what is in store as well as Latona's view of an over-crowded conference schedule that will see 5 shows in the last 2 weeks o...

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 indus...

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 needed I also had an...

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 pl...