This month has been an absolute whirlwind for .ART CMO Jeff Sass, Over the past 17 days he's gone from Florida to Portland, Oregon to London to Dubai to Dublin, Ireland, spending time in every one of those city's to help grow the community around that TLD. He's not done yet either. Next week it is on to Miami for NamesCon Global.

The curtain has come down on the 2025 Domain Days Dubai conference. We have a full conference review coming soon, but in the meantime we have some news about a new name for the show, the dates it will be held in 2026 (and a few snapshots from this year's event).

The domain aftermarket produced five 6-figure sales over the past two weeks, including two that passed the $700,000 mark. We also saw the highest sales ever reported in both the .ai and .tv TLDs. The hits came from multiple corners. The .coms claimed 11 of the top 20 but the ccTLDs had two of the top 3 and seven entries overall. The non .com gTLDs ...

The 2025 Domain Days Dubai conference is being held Wednesday and Thursday in the UAE metropolis. An innovative RightOfTheDot.com Bid-To-Earn Digital Asset Auction will be an opening day highlight with Tokens.com headlining the 166-lot catalog.

Hakan Ali and Robbie Birkner have had many successes since entering the domain business over 25 years ago. They started out as fierce but respectful competitors but wound up being friends and have now gone a step further - becoming partners who plan to completely re-imagine domain management from the ground up.

By now you have probably heard about the record-breaking sale of Wisdom.ai at $750,000 in the highest publicly reported sale of a .ai domain to date. The buyer's representative, Grit Brokerage, lived up to their name by hammering away for two years to make the acquisition for their client finally happen. We learned that Grit does things a little di...

Over the past 20 years Ammar Kubba has put together a stunning string of successful ventures and investments. That hot streak continues with his latest landmark sale - Wisdom.ai at $750,000, making it the highest publicly reported .ai sale on record, topping the $700,000 paid for You.ai in 2023.

PIR's 2025 .Org Impact Awards were presented this week, With $180,000 in donations to distribute among the world's most outstanding .orgs, over 3,000 applications poured in. Those were whittled down to winners in seven categories from which the ultimate .Org of the Year was chosen.

The back story on this sale is one of the most compelling ones we've seen in a long time. Industry veteran John D. has been toiling in the domain mines for the past 10 years with one prime directive - he would not publicly report a domain sale until he had one that broke the $100,000 mark. Well, the gag order he imposed upon himself has finally bee...

The Internet Commerce Association, the non-profit organization that fights to protect domain owner's rights, add support for its mission from some of the most important players in the domain and Internet industries. The latest to line up alongside the ICA as a top tier Platinum Member is global tech leader Squarespace. The ICA is also now inviting...

The Domain Days Dubai conference, created by Munir Badr, proved to be a hit right out of the gate with people coming from around the world for outstanding events in 2023 and 2024. Now, with the 3rd edition just 3 weeks away, we connected with Munir to find out how he plans to wow attendees again this year.

When the 2025 NamesCon Global conference opens in Miami November 5, Mike Mann will be part of the first panel discussion. Not everyone will agree with what Mike has to say but he will provide his honest opinion on every question - often one that runs counter to that of others in a business that has grown into a colossus with more than 1,500 TLDs an...

Dynadot has just added another star performer to the executive team at the rapidly growing domain registrar and marketplace. Multi-talented industry veteran Yiqiu Tao has come on board as Director of Sales. Over the past five years Yiqiu closed premium sales totaling eight figures while serving as Country Manager China at Sedo.

The heat is still on in the domain aftermarket. One of the 10 biggest publicly reported sales of the year to date leads the charge on our latest bi-weekly all-extension Top 20 Sales Chart. We also saw the year's biggest .io sale in one of the three transactions that reached six figures.

Domain Summit has announced plans to go global with a conference in Africa next year and possibly one in the U.S. in 2027, but no one expected another one this year. Just days after the latest show concluded in London, the conference founder announced a new event - Domain Summit Asia - will be held in November.

The .ART domain registry, in collaboration with GP Bullhound Allstars, has announced the five finalists for the 2025 Digital Innovation in Arts & Culture Award (DIAC). These outstanding companies were recognized for leading the way in shaping how technology transforms art, culture and heritage.

The .HipHop domain registry has opened an equity crowdfunding campaign with a "Testing the Waters" phase on Wefunder. Cultural innovator DJ Madout signed on as Lead Investor for a campaign that invites investors and the global Hip Hop community to claim a stake in the ICANN approved registry that represents them on the Internet.

We've been talking about hot domain sales all summer and from the look of our latest bi-weekly all-extension Top 20 Sales Chart and with autumn less than two weeks away, there is no sign they are about to cool down any time soon. The latest hit parade is led by a $300,000 .ai sale + a record-breaking .xyz sale and two 6-figure .coms.

After a 6-year hiatus, the curtain went back up in India's DomainX conference August 30-31 in New Delhi. The shutdown was precipitated by the Covid pandemic in 2020 but with the global domain industry enjoying a rapid expansion this was a good time for the Indian domain community to step back into the spotlight.

The 2025 Domain Summit conference closed this evening in London, England. This year's event was held in a new venue, the city's roomy and conveniently located Business Design Centre. Domain Summit has been an annual event in London but from this point forward it is branching out with additional events around the globe.

The hits just kept on coming in the domain aftermarket over the past two weeks. Despite an NDA we got a hint about the price range a Phoenix.com sale fell in. There was also an impressive group of six-figure sales - all from either .com or .ai. Those two TLDs combined to take 18 of 20 chart entries.

Radix (the administrator of ten new gTLDs) announced the number of premium domain registrations they had in the 1st Half of 2025 soared 50% higher than the same half last year. The Radix onslaught was led by an eye-popping expansion in .tech registrations as they rocketed 70% above the previous half.

India's DomainX conference ran annually from 2014-2019 before the Covid pandemic finally brought the train to an abrupt halt. Thankfully, those days are behind us now and the DomainX curtain will rise again when the show returns to New Delhi August 30 & 31. As was the case with previous DomainX events, guests will hear from an outstanding line up ...

Public Interest Registry (PIR), the people behind the .ORG domain, have named 35 finalists for the 7th annual .ORG Impact Awards. These special awards recognize outstanding mission-driven individuals and organizations from around the world for their positive contributions to society. The honorees were chosen from seven different categories with fiv...

Big .ai sales continue to light up the domain aftermarket. We just learned about yet another one - a sale of Law.ai that is one of the three highest .ai sales ever reported. The deal was closed by Sedo's Mark "Mr. Premium" Ghoriafi, who had already posted three of the year's Top 20 sales to date before his latest win.

With sales in the domain aftermarket riding a summer-long hot streak, solid sales continue to be posted across a wide swath of TLDs. However, if you are looking at the high end of the market as reflected by our bi-weekly all-extension Top 20 Sales Chart, it's a different story. Every position on the elite list except one is either a .com or a .ai d...

Four years ago this month we first told you about an ambitious new project launched by domain industry pioneer and successful serial entrepreneur Bhavin Turakhia. Titan was Bhavin's vision for a service designed to revolutionize business email. Since then, Titan has flourished, propelled by one major partnership after another, including the bigge...

Explosive growth and new developments in the domain industry make it increasingly difficult to keep up with everything going on around us. The good news is that the number of resources needed to cover it all is growing too. One of the best we've seen to date is a free publication from Freename dubbed The Domain Standard.

Startup D3 Global has taken on the Herculean task of merging the Web2 and Web 3 domain worlds. That is an appealing prospect to many because it would let legacy domains take advantage of valuable features made possible by Web3 protocols. A new partnership with InterNetX is now moving D3 closer to their goal.

Sedo's Senior Sales and Brokerage Consultant Dave Evanson has been ringing up big money domain sales for the past 20 years and he is still hitting them out of the park. His latest towering blast, just closed today, was a $1,000,000 sale of ZH.com of behalf of a U.S. seller who has owned the domain since 1994.

PayPal just announced a new service that will allow merchants to accept over 100 cryptocurrencies.The mainstreaming of cryptocurrency is something well-known domain industry entrepreneurs Lars Jensen, Stevan Lieberman, Thomas Medard and Matheus Leite started working on over a year before PayPal's announcement when they teamed up to launch Nicky.me....

VeriSign, (the administrator of the .com and .net TLDs) has released their latest quarterly Domain Name Industry Brief (DNIB) covering the 2nd quarter of 2025. This update showed the total number of domain registrations across all TLDs worldwide ended the most recent quarter at 371.1 million. Here's how each category, including ccTLDs and Non .com ...

NamesCon Global's first visit to Florida is coming up November 5 & 6 when the big show cones to Miami. Ticket prices will be going up on August 1but If you act before then you can get them at the current price and take another 20% off by using a promo code NamesCon has provided for DNJournal readers.

The amazing summer sales crescendo has grown even louder since our last bi-weekly report with eight newly reported 6-figure sales leading the way on our latest all-extension Top 20 Sales Chart. Sedo blew the roof off the place in posting the three highest ones - one a ccTLD, one a .com and one a non .com gTLD.

In a special edition of the Inside Ionos podcast, co-hosts Thilo Haertel and Simone Catania drew insight into the latest industry trends from four prominent guests. Meanwhile, .ART is making plans for a groundbreaking webinar/live tour in the Metaverse on Thursday.

No matter how good your domain name is, if people can't find it you're not going to be able to sell it. With millions of domain names available on the aftermarket, businesses have some very deep water to wade through in search of the right name for their enterprise, Atom.com has unveiled a new AI powered search assistant that aims to make it easier...

Everybody hit the dance floor in the domain aftermarket over the past couple of weeks. Led by a 7-figure ..com sale and the year's biggest sales to date in both the ccTLD and Non .com gTLD categories - the joint has been rocking! The non .,com gTLDs actually post their 3 biggestt sales of the year and five of their top ten.

Fireworks weren't confined to the sky over America's 4th of July holiday weekend. The domain aftermarket was getting lit up too with the biggest blast coming Sunday morning when we learned that Hilco Digital brokered a $1.5 million sale of Sword.com for Braden Pollock That is the second 7-figure sale the Hilco/Pollock team have put up in the past ...

Domain Summit Founder Helmuts Meskonis has produced successful conferences in London for each of the past three years. In that situation most would stick with a formula that has been working but this year Meskonis decided it was time to break out of that comfortable orbit an shoot for the stars. That's why a lot will be different about Domain Summi...

The 4th annual InterNetX Domain Summit was held June 25th & 26th in Frankfurt, Germany. As has been the case with each edition of this popular conference, attendees came from across Europe and beyond to catch up on the latest developments in domain names and the broader digital ecosystem. American football even wound up on the agenda!

Domain Summit Founder Helmuts Meskonis is taking the show on the road with a new Domain Summit Africa conference leading the way. After the annual Domain Summit in London in September, Meskonis will set his sights on a groundbreaking event in Nairobi, Kenya that will be held February 23-24.

Summer used to be a slow time in the domain aftermarket but this year an inferno of high end sales have been lighting up our charts in a way we seldom see in a season usually thought of as time to take a vacation. Instead buyers and sellers have stayed busy closing one impressive sale after another. The latest headliners are a quartet of six-figure...

The Internet Commerce Association (ICA) has opened early bird ticket sales for their 2026 Annual Las Vegas Meeting to all members (and any industry participant who wants to join now). Here is how being an ICA member can help both you and the industry continue to grow and prosper.

ICANN will be launching a second round of new gTLDs) next year and once again millions of dollars will be spent by entrepreneurs who dream of running their own TLD. However, there is ANOTHER WAY to run an entire extension - the same way operators of re-purposed ccTLDs like .ai, .io. .co and .tv did it. The latest to take that path are the new stew...

Sedo Premium Outbound Broker Mark Ghoriafi has just wrapped up yet another trip to the domain sales mountain top. Mark started the year with a $600,000 sale of Pack.com in January, followed it up with a $980,000 sale of Double.com and just struck gold again by selling Dollars.com at $500,000. As a result he now has three of the top ten publicly re...

After establishing itself as one of the world's premier domain conferences with outstanding events in 2023 and 2024, the Domain Days Dubai conference is returning for round 3 October 22-23, 2025 in the magnificent UAE metropolis. The show will again be held at the picturesque Marriott Resort Palm Jumeirah where industry leaders from around the worl...

Team Internet Group (TIG) announced that Colombia has given Consrcio Equipo PuntoCo - a partnership between TIG and Central Comercializadora de Internet (CCI) - a 10-year license to operate the .co top level domain. The contract opportunity became available when Colombia's previous pact with GoDaddy expired.

The traditionally dominant .coms have had to share the sales spotlight with surging .ai domains over the past year but this time around the bi-weekly track, the .coms left just about everything else in their dust. Their haul included nine of the top ten with the only exception being a solo .ai sale. Is this possibly a sign that the .ai boom is wani...

Brandon Abbey has been a familiar figure to domain industry veterans since 2004 when he became the President at Escrow.com. Over the next 12 years, Brandon played a central role in helping close over two billion dollars worth of domain sales there. Brandon has now joined an innovative company that is shaking up the payments world with an end to end...