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DNJournal's latest weekly top 20 list of reported domain sales is shown below (for the complete list go here). It's been an excellent week with three six figure sales. Remember that this list is only the "tip of the iceberg" where both buyers and sellers have agreed to publicize the transaction. Most domain sales actually [...]

Australian country singer Keith Urban has filed a lawsuit against a US painter of the same name, claiming that the lesser known Keith Urban's website KeithUrban.com infringes trademark and cyber-squatting laws. The Australian singer's own website is located at KeithUrban.net. He wants the other website to be shut down and its domain name transferred to [...]

RENFE, the Spanish national railway operator, announced the launch of its .mobi portal at renfe.mobi. Travelers can check timetables, special offers and live alerts. While it's not possible to buy tickets yet, this feature will be added in the near future according to Pedro Miguel López Hernández, RENFE's director of publicity.

Network Solutions, a leading provider of online solutions for small businesses, announced today that General Atlantic, a leading global private equity firm, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Network Solutions from Najafi Companies (formerly Pivotal Private Equity).

Fyodor Vaskovich, the owner of the domain name that GoDaddy shut down for seven hours on January 24, has set up a website that is "exposing the many reasons not to trust GoDaddy with your domain names". The site is located at NoDaddy.com Few innocent victims of crooked domain registrars dare to speak out in [...]

The Public Interest Registry (PIR), the entity which manages the .ORG top-level domain name, has launched an awareness campaign dedicated to alerting .ORG owners to the importance of protecting, preserving and renewing their .ORG domains. About 2,000 .ORG domains expire each day. Protectyour.org outlines five simple domain protection ideas (paraphrased below). These suggestions are basic [...]

dotMobi announced its new "Go Mobile!" initiative which consists of the following core elements: Ready.mobi – An exciting analysis tool that generates an in-depth report of how well your site will perform on mobile phones. Give it a try, it's very informative with many details provided about your site.