Tucows has announced that it is laying off roughly 15% of its staff in a restructuring move to deal with the macro economic environment and unexpected changes in the industry. Elliot Noss, the President and CEO of Tucows, explains more on the company’s website: “We decided to take this step because of the uncertainty of overall economic [...]

Oversee.net announced today that Steve Wozniak will headline the 3rd annual DOMAINfest Global event scheduled for January 28-30, 2009, in Hollywood, California. Wozniak co-founded Apple Computer Inc. along with Steve Jobs and Ronald Wayne and has been instrumental in shaping the personal computer industry. “It’s a great honor to have Steve Wozniak join us as keynote [...]

34 live auctions have concluded at the Targeted T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference so far - and here is the unofficial total tally: Auction Total Domains Sold Total Domains Listed Average Per Domain Lowest Sale Highest Sale Moniker Opening Night $96,750 46 66 $2,103.26 $150 $12,500 RickLatona.com $681,850 38 78 $17,943.42 $300 $195,000 Aftermarket.com $148,700 26 50 $5,719.23 $650 $31,000 Moniker Premium Live $2,967,500 102 228 $29,093.14 $900 $800,000 Total $3,894,800 212 422 $18,371.70 $150 $800,000 Moniker will be holding another live auction today, featuring our advertiser’s premium names Cleaning.com (website included), Trumpet.com, Clarinet.com, Sax.com, and MusicStudio.com (website included) at no [...]

Domain Convergence, a conference focusing on domain monetization and portfolio management, will be held in Niagara Falls, Ontario, from October 6-8, 2008. The conference will be greatly beneficial for portfolio owners looking to do more with their domain names. There will be sessions on parking versus development, development tools and techniques, domain name owners’ rights, [...]

DomainNameNews has learned that Fabulous.com and TRAFFIC will be announcing later today that they are donating all profits from the forthcoming TRAFFIC Down Under domain conference to the Internet Commerce Association (ICA). Fabulous seems to be putting together a show with a ton of activities and events for attendees in a beautiful location. It’s clear by [...]

There are only a few days left to save big on the 2008 GeoDomain Expo in Chicago. By registering before June 1, you’ll pay only $595. After that, anybody who wishes to attend the event will have to pay a minimum of $695. The GeoDomain Expo, presented by Associated Cities, will take place on July 11 [...]

The TRAFFIC Down Under conference, held by Fabulous.com November 18-20 at the Gold Coast in Australia, just announced two keynote speakers: Dr. Paul Twomey, President & CEO of ICANN and Graeme Wood, Founder and Executive Director of hotel booking site Wotif.com. [via Press Release]

I wasn’t going to attend the 2008 TRAFFIC East show. I’m totally burned out on “Domain Show Overload”. Really, how many freaking shows can we pack in to a calendar year ? While making my plans, I had only heard from a handful of colleagues that they would be attending, but I had some [...]

On Wednesday April 30th, there’s going to be a get-together in London England; visit the thread on the Acorn Domain Forum. Also there will be another DomainerDinner in Toronto on May 8th, for more information please email toronto (at) domainerdinner.com.

Yesterday at the Domain Roundtable show the winners of the annual Name Intelligence Industry awards were named as follows: Registrar with the Largest Net Gain - GoDaddy Best Registrar for Resellers - Enom Outstanding Drop Catcher - NameJet Outstanding Secondary Market - Sedo Best Registrar - Moniker Best Parking Company (tie): Sedo and Parked.com Best Aftermarket - Afternic Best Forum - DNForum.com Best Blog [...]