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DNJournal's current weekly top 20 list of reported domain sales is shown below (for the complete list go here). It's been another slow week with no six figure sales. However, this list is only the "tip of the iceberg" where both buyers and sellers have agreed to publicize the transaction. Most domain sales actually remain [...]

Google Trends indicates that over the course of 2006 the search term "Yahoo" became more popular than "sex", making it the #1 query on Google:

Yahoo apparently faces a similar dilemma with roles reversed: When you search for "Google" on Yahoo, Yahoo thoughtfully displays a second search box as if to tell you, "Hey cutie, you [...]

DomainSponsor announced that it has finalized the agenda for DOMAINfest, a seminar and networking event for the domain industry. The show is set to take place at [...]

NameMedia's BuyDomains and Afternic domain sales platforms announced that they will become the premier sales distribution channel for Fabulous.com's portfolio of more than 500,000 domain names.
Fabulous.com confirmed the deal and advised that the domains, which are currently listed at Fabulousdomains.com, are actually owned by an affiliate.

Popular computer security Web site Seclists.org was abruptly deactivated this week by MySpace.com and GoDaddy, the world's largest domain name registrar, raising questions about free speech and Internet governance.
MySpace demanded that GoDaddy pull the plug on seclists.org, which hosts some 250,000 pages of mailing list archives and other resources, because a list of thousands of [...]

NetNames, the UK’s leading domain name management specialist, has been appointed to help protect and manage Unilever’s 6,300+ domain names. Unilever, the British-Dutch packaged goods conglomerate, is consolidating its domains, which were previously spread over different registrars.
Netnames' Platinum [...]

ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, recently voted 12-0 to revoke the .UM top level domain because it was not being used. UM is the ISO 3166-1 code for the virtually uninhabited "U.S. minor outlying islands."
This decision brings the number of undelegated (unused) ISO 3166-1 extensions to five, the others being Montenegro [...]