You Can't Tell the Players Without a Program: New Tools for Keeping Track of the New gTLDs If you go to a basketball game you may pick up a program so you can figure out who's who among the dozen or so players on each team. With hundreds of new gTLDs arriving in the domain world this year you are going to need a much BIGGER program and fortunately those now exist.
New Venture for Sedo Co-Founders Schumacher & Essman - Helping Build a "Sedo for Apps" Tim Schumacher & Ulrich Essman, 2 of the 4 college friends who founded Sedo in 2001, have gotten involved in a major new venture - helping build a "Sedo for Apps" at Apptopia.com. Sedo became a domain industry giant and the partners think they can replicate their model in the booming apps world.
DNJournal - Tuesday, February 4, 2014 - 10:20
Why Rick Schwartz Believes Buying New gTLDs Now Could be Hazardous to Your Financial Health A lot of different views about new gTLDs are expressed by the 17 domain industry experts featured in our latest annual State of the Industry Cover Story. Some predict success, others disaster. Here are some comments from leading skeptic Rick Schwartz that were not in the Cover Story.
Wan More Time! For the 2nd Week in a Row the 3 Biggest Domain Sales Total Over $1.3 Million As legendary linguist Yogi Berra once said, "It's deja vu all over again!" For the 2nd week in a row, the top three sales on our latest all extension Top 20 Sales Chart totaled over $1.3 million. This week's trio included the year's biggest sale to date - an $800,000 whopper.
Marc Ostrofsky Gives Us the Inside Story on Home Depot's Big Purchase of Blinds.com When the Wall Street Journal reported that Home Depot had acquired Blinds.com, I immediately remembered that was a domain and business that industry pioneer Marc Ostrofsky had invested in. So, over the weekend I caught up with Marc to get the inside story on this mega deal.
DNJournal - Monday, January 27, 2014 - 11:54
DomainFest Returning to Original Name & Hollywood Location for 2014 Show Opening March 31 DomainFest will be returning to Los Angeles March 31-April 3, 2014. The upcoming conference will have a different name, a different location and different dates than it had last year, but the name and location will still be very familiar to veteran DomainFest attendees.
Photos & Highlights from David & bree’’s Rock & Roll Wedding Saturday in Las Vegas Domain Hall of Famer & rock band musician/manager David Castello married band mate bree Saturday afternoon at the Graceland Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas - the place where rock star Jon Bon Jovi was also married. We have photos and highlights from the rollicking special occasion we were honored to attend.
DNJournal - Sunday, January 19, 2014 - 1:11
Going to the Chapel and They're Going to Get Married: David & bree's Rock & Roll Wedding Just Hou... Our friends, Domain Hall of Famer David Castello and his beautiful bride and bandmate bree, are getting married this afternoon in what is sure to be a memorable rock & roll wedding at a well-known Las Vegas chapel. We have some photos from last night pre wedding dinner/post dinner party and will also be at the wedding today.
DNJournal - Saturday, January 18, 2014 - 11:44
Photos & Highlights From the Last Two Landmark Days at the Inaugural NamesCon Conference With close to 600 registrants on hand, the inaugural NamesCon Conference completed its run with 6 keynote speakers, 30 business sessions (featuring 100 speakers) and a variety of social and networking events Tuesday and Wednesday at the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas.
DNJournal - Friday, January 17, 2014 - 11:15
Huge Water Night Party at NamesCon Raised Over $117,000 for the Water School But 3 Domainers Got ... The domain industry showed up in a BIG way for the Water School last night at a huge Water Night fund raising Party held at the Tropicana Hotel during the NamesCon conference that is running there through Wednesday evening. A record breaking total of over $111,000 was raised largely thanks to three brave domain industry figures who g...
DNJournal - Wednesday, January 15, 2014 - 9:53
Photos and Highlights From Opening Night at the Inaugural NamesCon Conference in Las Vegas We arrived at the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas Monday, joining almost 600 others who are converging there for the debut edition of NamesCon, the highly anticipated conference being produced Richard Lau, Jodi Chamberlain and Jothan Frakes. Here are DN Journal's Photos & Highlights from Opening Night.
DNJournal - Tuesday, January 14, 2014 - 9:42
Rosters Released for Epic Ping Pong Battle at NamesCon - Women in Domaining Also to Meet Lots of NamesCon news for you today. The rosters have been released for next week’’s 16-man East vs. West ping pong battle . Meanwhile, women in domaining announce their own event. Also, .co.com leaders will be on hand to talk about their new domains. Elsewhere, bree is in the news again!
DNJournal - Friday, January 10, 2014 - 20:1
Competition in the Domain Escrow Business Escalates with EscrowHill.com Opening Today With the arrival of hundreds of new TLDs this year many expect the number of aftermarket domain sales transactions to grow, accompanied by a bigger demand for domain escrow services. That has encouraged some new companies to launch in an effort to grab a share of the escrow fee gold.
DNJournal - Thursday, January 9, 2014 - 10:0
2014 Domain Sales Season Gets Underway With a Big Canadian ccTLD Sale Leading the Charge And they are off! The 2014 domain sales season is underway with the first week of reported sales now in the books. With the New Year's Eve/Day holiday cutting into the opening work week one might expect slow going in the aftermarket but quite a few respectable sales were announced.
