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Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: DOMAINfest Global lands the author who wrote the book that the hit movie “The Social Network” is based on. Plus, Mike Mann sells his share of an up and coming online company and a thank you to Frank Schilling and others who turned the table on me.

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The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. Two solid and previously unreported six-figure sales set the pace for the domain aftermarket this week. 13 .coms made the latest all extension Top 20 Chart, along with four ccTLDs and three non .com gTLDs.

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Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: Local and regional domain meetings are springing up all over. Denver is the latest to get their own event. The .CO Registry announces plans to auction off I.co and ICANN takes flak over its latest (and possibly last) new gTLD guidebook.

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After buying Bobbleheads.com for $30,000 in 2008, Warren Royal built the domain into a booming business that has become the world’s premier source for collectible bobblehead products. Legendary domainer Scott Day’s company, Digimedia, took notice and just invested in Royal’s rapidly growing company.

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Monte Cahn At Affiliate Summit West 2009 Oversee.net , parent company of Moniker.com, announced today that Moniker.com founder Monte Cahn will no longer be with their organization effective December 31, 2010 Oversee purchased retail registrar Moniker.com at the peak of the domain name auction boom in 2008, when Moniker had been enjoying a string...

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Oversee.net parent company of DomainSponsor.com and producer of DOMAINFest Global announced this evening in a press release statement that Bob Parsons, CEO of domain registrar Godaddy.com will be the keynote speaker for their 2011 event. The motorcycle-riding, gun-loving Parsons is know to be a very outspoken and at times controversial CEO. He has however...

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.DE passed the 14 million domain mark on November 26th. Switch, the .CH registry operator announced that they had registered over 1,5 Million .CH domain names on December 1st, 2010. The latest Verisign Domain Industry Brief (PDF) for November 2010 reports that we have well surpassed the 200 million mark with 201.8 million of...

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Shane Cultra at DomainShane pointed out earlier that Namejet is hosting an auction of 3 letter .net domains, in fact more than 1000 of them at one time. The names were originally had a backorder deadline over the Thanksgiving holiday week but it appears someone wised up an move the closing date to get...

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Sedo and Afternic have been so kind to send us a few selected sales from their and their clients domain portfolios for the Week 47 of 2011. The top 5 sales were: Hobbies.com for $297,500 USD (AfternicDLS) wuye.com for $43,500 USD (Sedo) BornRich.com for $38,000 USD (Sedo) Like.me for $26,500 USD (Sedo) baloncesto.com for...

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Top Level Domain Holdings, parent company of Minds+Machines and trademark holder for a number of potential new TLDs has proposed a new placing allowing them to raise an additional £3m. In their corresponding filing, Antony van Couvering is quoted as saying: “Having reviewed ICANN’s Final Proposed Applicant Guidebook, and in view of the ICANN...

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