Colin Campbell wrote one of the best business books I've ever read - Start. Scale. Exit. Repeat. (the end result of a 10-year journey) and it just won a huge honor with a place on the Kirkus Reviews Top 100 Indie Books list for 2024 and a coveted Kirkus Star.

.ART made a big move by acquiring HUG, a popular social marketplace co-founded by Randi Zuckerberg (whose brother is Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerburg) and Debbie Soon. I happened to be in Fort Lauderdale soon after the news came out, so i popped into .ART CMO Jeff Sass's office there to learn more about the deal.

In over 20 years of posting domain sales charts we've never seen one that looked our latest one. While we have seen a single TLD sweep 15 or more entries on a single Top 20 chart, that TLD was always .com - but not this week. Led by an $85,000 sale of Odyssey.ai. .ai domains went on to claim 15 places on our latest bi-weekly all extension Top 20 Sa...

The domain industry's 2024 global calendar was stuffed with an extraordinarily rich variety of conferences and events. The success of those many meetings underscored how broad the appeal of this business has become around the world. We just recently got details about an important one that occurred in September, between London's Domain Summit in Aug...

I spent some of the extended Thanksgiving holiday weekend catching up on my reading, with InterNetX's 2024 edition of their comprehensive All About Domains series of E-Papers at the top of my list. InterNetX launched the annual project, authored by Global Content & Communications Manager Simone Catania.

A trio of 6-figure sales led by one of the year's 10 biggest publicly reported sales to date led the charge on our latest chart. We also saw one of the three biggest ccTLD sales of the YTD and still more solid .ai sales.

NamesCon Global is on the move and in more ways than one. NamesCon producers announced today that they are moving from Austin, Texas to Miami, Florida for the 2025 conference. In another major development, NamesCon Global announced a new U.S. based management team for an event that will run later in the year than usual - Nov. 5-6, 2025.

The .ART Registry has released of the second annual issue of its .ART Odyssey publication: themed SUCCESS. This edition dives deep into the concept of success, reimagined through the lens of creativity, resilience, and innovation in todays art world. It explores how creativity serves as a catalyst for personal and collective growth and features a d...

It has been a very busy month for Domain Days Dubai Founder Munir Badr. As soon as the 2024 show ended he had to head off to Istanbul for the ICANN meeting. Now that things have finally settled down, Munir shared his thoughts on the groundbreaking event that has given the Middle East and Africa region a well deserved turn in the industry spotlight.

After 10 years of know him, I was starting to believe Mark Ghoriafi could actually fly and after his latest stunt as a Premium Broker with Sedo, I'm sure of it! The thing that confirmed my suspicion that he could defy gravity, happened at the recently concluded 2024 Domain Days Dubai conference. Mark was there to represent Sedo as a featured speake...

Just two years ago, if someone told you the ccTLD for the tiny Caribbean nation of Anguilla (.AI) would be lighting up domain sales charts like fireworks on New Year's Eve within 24 months, you would have thought they were crazy. Yet here we are. In 2022 not a single .AI domain appeared on our Top 100 Chart for that year. This year isn't it over ye...

With over 3 million residents already in its metropolitan area, Dubai is still one of the world's fastest growing cities. After just two events, the city's first major domain conference, Domain Days Dubai, looks to be on a meteoric growth track too. After a very promising launch last year, DDD staged its second annual event November 5-6, 2024 and e...

The 2024 Domain Days Dubai (DDD) conference closed this evening with a Yacht Cruise that brought the curtain down on the the second annual event. DDD was created to focus on the Middle East & Africa (MEA) region but others from around the world were also immediately attracted to the event to make connections in that rapidly growing market.

VeriSign, (the administrator of the .com and .net TLDs) has released their latest quarterly Domain Name Industry Brief (DNIB) covering the 3rd quarter of 2024. This update showed that the total number of domain registrations across all TLDs worldwide ended the most recent quarter at 362.3 million. That is a slight tick down from 362.4 million at th...

Domain Days Dubai (DDD) made a great first impression when conference founder Munir Badr and his team launched the event in November 2023. So much so that sponsorships and demand for tickets for the second edition of the event, coming up Wednesday and Thursday, November 5 & 6, 2024 at the Marriott Resort Palm Jumeirah, exploded. Though seating was ...

It seems like just about every well-known figure in the domain industry has their own blog, podcast or or social media platform. One thing they have all had in common in a singular focus on domains. Duh, right? Well, there is one exception now - all-star broker and Evergreen.com CEO Jen Sale's refreshing new Ten With Jen video podcast series on You...

The domain aftermarket has a new 2024 King of the Hill, a $14 million sale that almost doubled the price paid for the previous YTD chart topper. We also saw three strong six-figure sales and solid overall strength throughout the market.

In October of 2004 the historic first domain conference in a game changing series of TRAFFIC shows was staged at the Delray Beach Marriott in Florida. That event was the start of a 10-year run of 28 shows that spread from Delray Beach across the United States, then internationally. TRAFFIC was also the spark that ignited a constellation of new conf...

Public Interest Registry (PIR), the people behind the .ORG domain, has announced the winners of the prestigious 2024 .ORG Impact Awards. This 6th annual celebration recognized and rewarded outstanding mission-driven individuals and organizations from around the world for their positive contributions to society.

It has been a busy week for the .ART registry. On Tuesday they announced the winner of the prestigious Digital Innovation in Art Award 2024. GoDaddy VP Paul Nicks was on the 8-person jury that selected the winner. .ART then wrapped up the week with announcement of an free online conference for artists that will be held October 25.

Fall has arrived but domain sales are still flying high. Our latest domain sales report is out (after a one-week delay caused by Hurricane Milton) and the new Top 20 Chart is led by the year's biggest ccTLD sale to date. We also saw 2024's second highest publicly reported non .com gTLD sale. Another big story line is the continuing strength of .ai ...

Serial entrepreneur Helmuts Meskonis expanded his Internet holdings by purchasing two established domain forums last year and he just acquired another one, ConsultDomain.de, an iconic German online community that had fallen on hard times and gone dormant.

With GoDaddy acquiring innovative domain sales platform DAN.com and merging it into their own Afternic.com, buyers and sellers saw one of their favorite venues go away, however new options are already starting to surface. One of the most promising among those, DomainEasy.com, has just launched with no commissions charged to domain sellers.

While Domain Days Dubai has a focus on the MENA region, the event attracts attendees form all over the world who come eager to learn more about opportunities in that part of the world. This year there will be more attendees, as well as speakers and sponsors when the 2024 event runs November 5 & 6.

Radix has found another new way to increase awareness for their innovative services and top level domains. Radix submitted Namify AI (an upgraded AI-powered version of their well established business name generator based at Namify.tech) to Product Hunt and wound up winning PH's highly coveted #1 Product of the Day honor.

New DNJ Report includes a chart topping $400,000+ sale... How Braden Pollock turned $15,000 into $150,000 in just 60 days...and the .AI boom continued with the TLD taking five spots on our latest Top 20 Sales Chart.

The .ART Registry, in collaboration with GP Bullhound Allstars, has unveiled the finalists for the prestigious Digital Innovation in Art Award 2024. This year's finalists represent the forefront of innovation, creativity, and technology in the art world, with projects that push boundaries and redefine the possibilities of digital art.

The new ICA Trailblazer Award will recognize a company or individual that has significantly advanced the domain name industry by creating an especially innovative product or service with lasting influence on our business. Everyone in the industry is welcome to make a nomination.

A pair of domain sales totaling $850,000 gave LegalBrandMarketing.com Founder Braden Pollock the top two spots our latest all extension Top 20 Sales Chart, as well as three of the 15 highest publicly reported domain sales year to date. The ccTLDs also had an excellent outing, taking four places on the top half of the leader board.

Radix has released their latest semi-annual report on the registry operator's premium domain sales results across the 10 TLDs they administer. Their H1-2024 Premiums Report details how Radix generated $5.16 million in Total Premium Retail Revenue for the best 6-month cycle they have had to date.

This has been a busy summer for domain conferences with NamesCon Global in June and Domain Summit in August but there were also more intimate industry gatherings held in tranquil surroundings. A prime example was a free 3-day retreat that Domain Aftermarket PRO hosted in Lonavala, India.

This continues to be an unusually hot summer for domain sales. Four new six-figure sales lit up our latest bi-weekly all extension Top 20 Sales Chart with Sedo Premium Broker Mark Ghoriafi accounting for the two biggest sales - including one that ranks among the 10 biggest publicly reported sales of the year to date.

The 2024 Domain Summit conference concluded last week in London.Now that Founder Helmuts Meskonis has had a few days to reflect on what was accomplished at this year's event and how the future is shaping up for Domain Summit, we got back together with him for an update.

ccTLDs were originally created for specific geographic areas but today many serve multiple purposes. Armenia's .am is currently celebrating its 30th birthday with an eye on expanding its horizons.

The Domain Summit conference will continue through Thursday morning at the Hilton Metropole Hotel with an international crowd on hand. We have some photos and highlights from the opening day.

The Public Interest Registry (PIR), the people behind the .ORG domain, have named the finalists for the 6th annual .ORG Impact Awards. PIR also announced that philanthropist, activist, Emmy & Tony Award winning actor Alan Cumming will host the 2024 awards ceremony October 8 in Washington, D.C.

The new domain sales report is out and judging from the latest domain sales, the summer break apparently ended a little early this year - at least for the domain aftermarket. Sales fireworks seemed to be everywhere with a $1 million sale creating the biggest boom. That was follow by two mid 6-figure blockbusters, and two more that also reached the ...

In the latest installment of InterNetX's Snapshot series, All About Domains, DNJournal Founder Ron Jackson discusses how he first discovered the domain business back in 2002 and why he decided to get into it.

After experiencing tremendous growth with last's year show, Domain Summit Founder Helmuts Meskonis and his team have spent the past year expanding the scope of the conference to fully represent the fact that people are now coming to it from multiple continents around the world.

Two of the domain industry's most enterprising innovators, Saw.com Founder (and super broker) Jeff Gabriel and Efty.com Founder Doron Vermaat have rolled out all new attractive services over the past two weeks. Just yesterday (August 1), Gabriel announced the launch of Saw.com's highly anticipated self-serve marketplace and full-service domain bro...

With many companies and people on summer holidays, sales data has come in slowly this month but we have enough in now to bring you a meaningful report. With the number of sales reported being lower than usual, it left the door open for some TLDs to land higher on the board than they normally might. That was reflected at the top our latest all exten...

Global domain registrations passed the 362 million mark at the end of 2Q-2024 but some groups had more to celebrate than others.

The long July 4th weekend cut down on the number of transactions reported but there were some big winners in the bunch.

Domain and digital asset investors and creators will have a chance to connect in one of the world's most beautiful locations this fall.

Tasty domain sales have been cooking in all categories over the past two weeks including .coms, ccTLDs and non .com gTLDs.

The Domain Name System came from an idea born in 1983 but the evolution that led to the DNSt started all the way back in 1958!

The Internet Commerce Association Annual Meeting will be returning to Las Vegas in January. Here's what you need to know.

The NamesCon/ROTD online auction ends this afternoon while GoDaddy's Q2 Premium Auction Headed for Thursday close.

There are two clear story lines in the latest bi-weekly domain sales report at DNJournal.com - solid sales are happening and .AI is still rocking.