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It was another solid week for the domain aftermarket led by a 6-figure sale and enough in the 5-figure range to fill TWO Top 20 sales charts. .Coms (including a Spanish language domain at #2) swept 16 of the 20 chart entries. The country codes and non .com gTLDs took two each with one ccTLD reaching #3 on the Big Board.

Bari Meyerson, a popular domain industry veteran who was a fixture at Moniker.com before leaving that registrar last December, is returning to the trenches in a business development position with Seattle-based registration giant eNom.com.

You will have to forgive domain industry pioneer and best selling author Marc Ostrofsky if he seems a bit disoriented this week. He is crisscrossing the country to attend graduation ceremonies for 3 of his 5 daughters. $1.5 million in college bills to put all five through school is also giving him a few gray hairs!

Sedo has released their latest quarterly Domain Market Study, covering domain sales made on their worldwide platform in the 1st quarter of 2012. The new report showed their highest sales since early 2011 and that Buy Now has become the most popular sales option for the first time.

Warm weather is returning to most parts of the northern hemisphere and domain sales seem to be heating up in tandem with the rising temperatures. We documented three new six-figure sales this week that are being reported for the first time, including one that ranks among the year's three biggest sales to date.

After two well received voyages in 2010 and 2011, DNCruise, the only domain conference held on a cruise ship, will not leave port in 2012. Organizer Patrick Ruddell (AKA Chef Patrick) gave me the news today and explained the reasons for his decision. He also commented on the possibility of bringing the event back in 2013.

TV personality, author and attorney Lisa Bloom, the fiancée of well-known domain industry figure Braden Pollock, has released Swagger, her second straight best selling book. Meanwhile, the writing bug also seems to have bitten the personable CEO at Thought Convergence - Ammar Kubba.

After a 3-year hiatus, the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference will return to Las Vegas in the spring of 2013 with the big show playing at the fabulous Bellagio Hotel for the first time. In another announcement of interest, Escrow.com has rolled out a new tool that will be of special interest to domain brokers.

After a 3-year hiatus, the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference will return to Las Vegas in the spring of 2013 with the big show playing at the fabulous Bellagio Hotel for the first time. In another announcement of interest, Escrow.com has rolled out a new tool that will be of special interest to domain brokers.

The latest domain sales report from DNJournal.com covers the past two weeks of action in the aftermarket and a busy fortnight it was with three 6-figure sales including the year's second biggest non .com gTLD sale and its third biggest country code sale.

The latest domain sales report from DNJournal.com covers the past two weeks of action in the aftermarket and a busy fortnight it was with three 6-figure sales including the year's second biggest non .com gTLD sale and its third biggest country code sale.

We're back from a great week in Spain where the Domaining Europe 2012 conference was held last week. We stayed over a couple of extra days to visit a few more of Valencia's many attractions and just got home Tuesday. Before we return to our regular programming here are some final thoughts on the show.

We're back from a great week in Spain where the Domaining Europe 2012 conference was held last week. We stayed over a couple of extra days to visit a few more of Valencia's many attractions and just got home Tuesday. Before we return to our regular programming here are some final thoughts on the show.

The Domaining Europe 2012 conference ended Saturday evening in Valencia, Spain with the 4th event in this series winning rave reviews. Attendees came from 23 countries around the world. Here are photos & highlights from the last two days plus the reason I am going home with no hair!

The Domaining Europe 2012 conference got underway late Thursday afternoon in Valencia, Spain and opening day activities did not end until the wee hours of this morning. We have exclusive photos and highlights from the first day of an event that drew domainers from 23 different countries.

Diana and I arrived in Valencia, Spain Tuesday evening along with some other early birds who wanted to get a jump start on the Domaining Europe 2012 conference that opens Thursday in this beautiful city on the Mediterranean Sea. Here are our exclusive pre-show photos & highlights.

This week's Domaining Europe conference will put Spain in the industry spotlight along with Michael Mann who was the subject of an interesting CNET story over the weekend. Plus, Thursday is the deadline for the public to comment on an ICANN-Verisign .Com contract renewal that would cost domain registrants big bucks.

The latest DNJournal.com newsletter is going out to opt-in subscribers this morning. In it we break down the domain sales data reported to us in the first quarter of 2012. Reports of an upswing in domain sales activity were confirmed by a big jump in transactions though total $ volume dipped a bit with the absence of blockbuster sales.

One thing that has always impressed me about the domain business is how many creative people are in it. We've got authors, TV producers, musicians and others with impressive talents of all kinds. You can now add John Colascione to the list. The industry veteran's first book - Mastering Your Website - just came out in paperback.