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DNJournal.com The Domain Industry News Magazine DNJournal.com is the industry’s first and foremost domain news magazine.

It was founded by professional journalist Ron Jackson on New Year’s Day 2003. In the years since then DNJournal has become an industry institution and the source that major mainstream media outlets like the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, USA Today, ABC News and others go to when domain stories are in the news. Ron, who owns and manages a large domain portfolio of his own, has in-depth knowle

dge of how the domain business works and maintains direct contacts with the visionary pioneers who built domain investing and development into a billion dollar industry.

Domain Aftermarket Magic Spills Over Into New Year Led By 7-Figure Sale of Midnight.com and Four Others in Six Figures: ...
01/08/2026

Domain Aftermarket Magic Spills Over Into New Year Led By 7-Figure Sale of Midnight.com and Four Others in Six Figures: https://www.dnjournal.com/archive/domainsales/2026/0121.htm

The 2025 domain sales season has come to and end but the demand for top tier domain names hasn't skipped a beat with the arrival of the New Year. That became clear Monday (January 5) when we reported two big Sedo sales in our Lowdown section - Midnight.com at $1,150,000 and C4.com at $265,000. Both....

Seven-Figure Sale of Midnight.com Gets New Year Off to a Great Start for Sedo's Mark Ghoriafi - "Mr. Premium" Added Anot...
01/05/2026

Seven-Figure Sale of Midnight.com Gets New Year Off to a Great Start for Sedo's Mark Ghoriafi - "Mr. Premium" Added Another Six Figures for C4.com: https://www.dnjournal.com/archive/lowdown/2026/posts/0105.htm

Seven-Figure Sale of Midnight.com Gets New Year Off to a Great Start for Sedo's Mark Ghoriafi - "Mr. Premium" Added Another Six Figures for C4.com 

A Pair of 7-Figure Sales and Three in 6 Figures Helped Light Up the Holiday Season for Domain Investors:
12/25/2025

A Pair of 7-Figure Sales and Three in 6 Figures Helped Light Up the Holiday Season for Domain Investors:

Following a brief slowdown due to America's four-day Thanksgiving weekend falling in our previous reporting period, the domain aftermarket quickly shifted back into high gear when everyone returned to work. Our latest bi-weekly all extension Top 20 Sales Chart is led by two of the 10 biggest publicl...

Verisign Reports Total Domain Registrations Worldwide Reached Over 378 Million at the End of 3Q-2025, Leaping by More Th...
12/05/2025

Verisign Reports Total Domain Registrations Worldwide Reached Over 378 Million at the End of 3Q-2025, Leaping by More Than 16 Million From a Year Ago:

Verisign Reports Total Domain Registrations Worldwide Reached Over 378 Million at the End of 3Q-2025, Leaping by More Than 16 Million From a Year Ago 

The Internet Commerce Association's Invaluable Role Underscored By Joint UDRP Review With WIPO:
12/03/2025

The Internet Commerce Association's Invaluable Role Underscored By Joint UDRP Review With WIPO:

The Internet Commerce Association (ICA) has announced that they've completed a collaborative review of the UDRP with the World Intellectual Property Organization Arbitration and Mediation Center (WIPO Center). The UDRP (Uniform Domain Name Resolution Policy) is ICANN's framework for settling domain....

Exclusive Review of What the 2025 InterNetX/Sedo Global Domain Report Revealed Shows How Much We Can All Learn by Respon...
12/01/2025

Exclusive Review of What the 2025 InterNetX/Sedo Global Domain Report Revealed Shows How Much We Can All Learn by Responding to the 2026 Survey:

Exclusive Review of What the 2025 InterNetX/Sedo Global Domain Report Revealed Shows How Much We Can All Learn by Responding to the 2026 Survey 

East Meets West: How the First Domain Summit Asia Conference Opened Doors on Both Sides of the Globe:
11/28/2025

East Meets West: How the First Domain Summit Asia Conference Opened Doors on Both Sides of the Globe:

Shortly after Domain Summit Founder Helmuts Meskonis staged the 4th annual edition of the London-based event in September, he announced plans to expand the conference into new regions around the world. That expansion began with the first Domain Summit Asia conference that was held November 17th and....

Unprecedented Wave of Five and Six-Figure Domain Sales Flood Latest DNJournal Charts - Top 20 Sales Average $118,000 Eac...
11/27/2025

Unprecedented Wave of Five and Six-Figure Domain Sales Flood Latest DNJournal Charts - Top 20 Sales Average $118,000 Each:

We aren't sure who or what opened the domain sales floodgates over the past two weeks but it was one of those rare phenomena we would love to see on a regular basis. It wound up being the most sales in the five-figure and up range that we  can ever recall seeing n a single report. Eight of them cam...

Ooma to Pay Over $23 Million for Phone.com Business Founded by Domain Industry Pioneer Mike Mann: https://www.dnjournal....
11/24/2025

Ooma to Pay Over $23 Million for Phone.com Business Founded by Domain Industry Pioneer Mike Mann: https://www.dnjournal.com/archive/lowdown/2025/dailyposts/1124.htm

In the domain industry Mike Mann long ago cemented his position as one of the giants in the space. Over 20 years ago he amassed a portfolio of hundreds of thousands of high quality domain names while also building the premier domain aftermarket of the era in BuyDomains.com, a company he sold in 2005...

Veteran Domain Industry Executive Paul Nicks Retiring After 18 Groundbreaking Years at GoDaddy:
11/21/2025

Veteran Domain Industry Executive Paul Nicks Retiring After 18 Groundbreaking Years at GoDaddy:

One of the most influential people in the domain investing world, Paul Nicks, has decided it's time to step and back and enjoy some of his favorite things in life after 18 years in leadership roles at industry giant GoDaddy. Paul made the announcement in a LinkedIn post Thursday, writing "Hanging up...

Skins.com Sold for Over $1.4 Million - New Zero Fee CS2 Marketplace Obtained Name in Deal Brokered by QEIP.com: https://...
11/19/2025

Skins.com Sold for Over $1.4 Million - New Zero Fee CS2 Marketplace Obtained Name in Deal Brokered by QEIP.com: https://www.dnjournal.com/archive/lowdown/2025/dailyposts/1119.htm

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Back to the Future: NamesCon Global 2025 Was a Historic Homecoming Party for Many and a Forward-Thinking Domain Forum Fo...
11/18/2025

Back to the Future: NamesCon Global 2025 Was a Historic Homecoming Party for Many and a Forward-Thinking Domain Forum For All. NEW COVER STORY:

Back to the Future: NamesCon Global 2025 Was a Historic Homecoming Party for Many and a Forward-Thinking Domain Forum For All  

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