I'll be spending the entire weekend flying to Australia to cover next week's T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Down Under conference for you. I posted some show notes before heading out and also details on a well deserved promotion for Oversee.net's Jeff Kupietzky who has been named company President....

Domain development is attracting more and more domain owners who are looking for ways to offset their PPC revenue declines. Well-known domainers Page Howe, Andrew Allemann and partners Ari Goldberger & Larry Fischer have all rolled out new websites....

In 2003 Australian entrepreneur Michael Gilmour found himself broke after losing a fortune overnight. He took his last $100 and bought a domain name. Five short years later Gilmour is one of the most successful people in this industry. In DN Journal's November Cover Story we'll tell you how he made ...

George Kirikos, a veteran domainer and long-time ICANN observer, has spotted language in new gTLD contracts that could pave the way for Verisign to charge domain owners anything they want for .com and .net registrations or renewals - with prices depending on what Verisign decides individual domains ...

The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. Four big six-figure sales, totaling well over a million dollars, lead the new Top 20 chart. There was a lot of variety on the all extension Big Board with six non .com global TLDs and four country code domains joining 13 .coms on the leader...

Forecasters are predicting a bad Christmas season for retailers with one exception - online sales are expected to easily surpass last year. In another win for the web, the editor of our local newspaper, following another round of layoffs, admits that many print publications now have to play second ...

DN Journal's next weekly domain sales report (due out tomorrow night) is shaping up as a strong one, especially after two big six-figure sales were just closed at Sedo today....

"If you do SEO for a living, you will be out of business or irrelevant in 3 years" according to Lijit Networks exec Micah Baldwin. A lot of domain owners who want to develop their names have been thinking about SEO but on his LearnToDuck.com blog Baldwin says there is a better way to go....

The business pages are filled with bad news but here is some positive information for domain owners to mull over this weekend. Veteran online advertising exec Joe Apprendi has seen it all and he says online publishers will fare far better than others in the current recession....

The Internet Commerce Association has responded to a press release issued yesterday by the Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) that erroneously portrayed cybersquatting as a criminal offense. We have the full text of ICA Executive Director Michael Collins's comments setting the record straig...

DN Journal's latest monthly newsletter breaks down 3Q-2008 domain sales to see what the numbers reveal about the health of the aftermarket. Plus, more info and photos from Kevin Ham and Chris Hartnett's adventures at Harvard Business School....

The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. Another big wave of completed live auction sales from the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. New York conference dominates this week's domain sales chart. Moniker swept the top three spots and four .me domains crashed the all extension leader board....

Today in The Lowdown at DNJournal.com: The scoop on why social networking site GeoDomainer.com has been inaccessible the past two weeks, details on a big .mobi auction starting tomorrow at Sedo and the reason why Afilias VP/CTO Ram Mohan was appointed to a special position on ICANN's Board of Direct...

Doctors Kevin Ham and Chris Hartnett have become Harvard Business School graduates after completing the school's intensely demanding Advanced Management Program. Also, our take on Media General's purchase of Richmond.com....

BoycottKentucky.com is asking domain owners to call the office of Kentucky governor Steve Beshear en masse today to express their displeasure with his attempt to take over 141 gambling related domain names through a highly controversial claim that the state has jurisdiction over those names....

The U.S. presidential election won't be held until Tuesday but thousands of web surfers have been casting their votes in online polls for weeks now. We'll tell you about a couple you can participate in and a little about our experiences voting for real this morning (our state is one of 31 that allow...

Lizzy Grant, the daughter of veteran domainer Rob Grant, is making a splash in the music business. Lizzy has just released her first record (available on iTunes) and also has a new video out that is creating quite a buzz in the music blogosphere....

The new weekly DNJournal.com domain sales report is out with four six-figure sales and a flood of completed live auction sales leading the aftermarket hit parade....

Ari Bayme, is taking over as CEO at Movie Times, Inc., a company that owns a portfolio of several thousand movie related domain names and operates the popular entertainment portal MovieTimes.com. Chairman Dan Pulcrano (a giant in the geodomain space) stepped out of the CEO role to make way for Bayme...

We're on the first leg of a one-week vacation trip but before heading out we added an exclusive new Photo Gallery to our T.R.A.F.F.I.C. New York coverage. We also posted a preview article that let's you know what to expect from next month's T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Down Under conference in Australia....

The T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference heads overseas for the first time November 18-20 when Fabulous.com hosts the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Down Under conference on Australia's famed Gold Coast. To get the inside scoop on this event, we talked with Fab execs Dan Warner and Michael Robertson....

Internet Real Estate Group President Andrew Miller and CEO Mike "Zappy" Zappolin were among the Harvard Business School graduates who got to meet luminaries like Bill Gates and Meg Whitman at last weekend's Global Business Summit marking the 100th Anniversary of the HBS....

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Reinvent Technology CEO Dr. Kevin Ham, who was the subject of DN Journal's May 2008 Cover Story, has been named winner of the Pacific Region's prestigious Ernst & Young 2008 Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the Technology category....

The DOMAINfest Global 2009 conference coming up in January has scored a major coup by landing Apple Computer Co-Founder Steve Wosniak as their keynote speaker. The show, sponsored by Oversee.net's domain monetization unit, DomainSponsor, will be staged January 28-30 in Hollywood, California....