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Domaining Industry Q&A With the recent introduction of the world’s first mTLD, .mobi, and the extremely successful initial launch, which included a very early $200,000 sale of Flowers.mobi at the recent T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East conference and expo, we thought that it would be more than appropriate to get in contact with the people behind the extension that has everybody talking right now. We managed to secure a Q&A with Pinky Brand, Director of New Markets for the dotMobi extension, and he had a lot of … [more]

Domain Name Sales DNJournal's Weekly Domain Name Sales Report The top 10 reported domain name sales of the week go to: 1. Gays.com - $500,000 ( Sedo ) 2. Cafe.com - $300,000 ( GreatDomains ) 3. UncleSam.com - $185,750 ( SnapNames ) 4. SPN.com - €95,000 = $121,266 ( Sedo ) 5. Yonkers.com - $70,750 ( SnapNames ) 6. Series.com - $45,500 ( Sedo ) 7. Online-Gambling.co.uk - €35,000 = $44,657 ( Sedo ) 8. USGrants.com - $40,000 ( NameCollecting ) 9. Ostomy.com - $37,361 ( SnapNames ) 10. VactionPlans.com - … [more]

Domaining News IDNs have helped internationalize the Internet but many believe that it is not enough and they don’t want to be forced to use Latin alphabet, as many feel it is holding them and their people back. For this reason Vint Cerf, chairman of ICANN and Google’s VP, is attempting to put together a solution and accommodate the world with a multi-lingual Internet before further separation happens similar to China going off and creating their own DNS. Vint wants to satisfy the world’s needs but al … [more]

Domain Name Sales The domain gays.com was recently sold for $500,000 (US) through Sedo , the world’s largest marketplace for domain names and internet addresses. The new domain owners are Julius and David Dreyer of Germany. “We are very proud to have invested in such a representative domain as gays.com. Building an internet portal for the gay community has always been one of our biggest goals,” said Julius Dreyer. “We are confident that we will be able to introduce an entertaining and informative we … [more]