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ShopCity.com is rolling out an innovative nationwide local shopping network that is offering career opportunities to partners interested in operating their own local marketplace on one of 7,500 URLs. Founder Colin Pape will talk about the platform on a Domain Success webcast tomorrow (Friday March 12).
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If you have an early stage company with a great domain, great idea, or both, and you are looking for investors to help you reach the next level T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Milan wants you in their Test Track program. They are also looking for live domain auction submission. Also – GoDaddy reached a HUGE new milestone [...]

The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. Guns.com staged a clean getaway – topping the chart with a sale that was 8 times bigger than the runner up (which was also a six-figure domain). 6 ccTLDS also muscled their way onto the new Top 20 Chart, along with a pair of [...]

A major new market survey of American advertisers and marketers says this will be the year when digital advertising finally passes print media in ad revenue for the first time. Also today, the .CO registry announces its upcoming launch plan including a new Founders Program for early adopters that opened today.
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We have learned that Moniker.com has completed the biggest .com sale reported so far this year at $800,000. It is the third highest sale of 2010 overall, trailing a million .org sale and a ccTLD sale of more than $850,000.
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New Cover Story: The 2010 conference schedule began with 3 shows in 23 days – an average of one every 8 days! Can the industry continue to support the number of shows that are now being held? We provide a detailed history of the domain conference business and look at its future prospects in [...]

The group of more than two dozen domain industry pros who went to Tanzania, Africa to climb Mount Kiliminjaro in a fund raising effort for The Water School have finished their
mission. 26 of the 27 climbers reached the peak and in the process raised approximately $180,000 for the non-profit organization.
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Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: Geodomain giant Skip Hoagland has joined with a partner to purchase a .com city domain website that represents one of Florida’s most popular resort towns. Also, a huge new marketplace that sells only .CA domains (Canada’s country code) has opened for business.
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Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: Domain conferences have been held on land in various corners of the globe over the past five years. In October, a conference will be held on the high seas for the first time! Also – we have an update on the progress of the two dozen domainers who are [...]

Four years after their first European conference in Barcelona, Spain, DOMAINfest will return to the Continent for a big show to be held at the Intercontinental Hotel in Prague, Czech Republic October 6-7, 2010. Here is what’s on tap.
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