DN Journal’s January Newsletter is going out to opt-in subscribers today. It analyzes 2011 domain sales results vs. 2010 (as well as 4Q-2011 results). In addition to overall market numbers, the newsletter (also available at our site) looks at how well the individual categories, .coms, ccTLDs & non .com gTLDs, performed in 2011.
For the 8th consecutive year, DNJournal.com kicks off the New Year with our annual State of the Industry Cover Story, an endeavor that brought together 15 experts and company leaders from across the industry to get their thoughts on the key trends of the past year and what they believe is in store in the year ahead.
Today in the Lowdown at DN Journal: .Com registrations pass another milestone – the 100 million mark. Plus, DOMAINfest Global releases the final agenda for next week’s big show in Santa Monica and domain sales giants Afternic and Sedo have announcements about the latest expansion of their respective platforms.
Last week a half dozen ccTLDs and a pair of non .com gTLDs earned placed on DN Journal’s all extension Top 20 Sales Chart.. This week they did a complete switch with the non .com gTLDs taking six places while the country codes had to settle for two. One constant was the .coms who again took the most chart entries.
Europe’s Domaining 2012 conference, coming up in Valencia, Spain April 26-28, is still three months away but show organizers have been hard at work for weeks now putting together an all-star speaker’s line-up. Here are some of the industry experts who will be on stage.