AfternicDLS had a strong week with approximately $580,000 in reported domain sales. Check out the full list of domain sales after the jump – including LoanDepot.com for $15,000, CurrentHealth.com for $10,000, and 4AutoInsurance.com for $8,500.

Rob Monster made quite an impact in the domain industry when he started Monster Venture Partners, a venture capital firm that backed more than 20 early-stage companies – many of which were based on high quality domain names such as Alerts.com, HealthCare.com, and Complaints.com. But now, two years later, MVP’s Bellevue office has shut down [...]

Sedo had a very impressive week closing over $1 million worth domain sales including Motor.es for nearly $115,000 (€85,000), and BabyShop.com for $85,000. In total, Sedo reported over 150 different domain sales in the past seven days. Click through to the next page for the full list of results…

DOMAINfest Global has updated DomainFest.com to include photos, videos, and testimonials from the January event in Hollywood, California. On top of that, DOMAINfest released the feedback from the post-event attendee survey which showed that: 97% of survey respondents rated DOMAINfest Global as valuable or extremely valuable. 87% rated the sessions and content as valuable or [...]

According to a blog post on One Degree, Tucows’ YummyNames unit has sold the domain name adamo.com to Dell. Details of the deal have not disclosed other than it was directly brokered by Bill Sweetman of YummyNames with Dell. Adamo is the name of Dell’s new luxury notebook line, and the domain name now points [...]

If you’ve been searching for the perfect domain name for generating huge parking revenues or developing into a major online retail business, PaintballGuns.com just might be it. The domain name was listed for auction on eBay earlier this week and has already accumulated over 30 bids and 2500 page views. However, with only three days [...]

The Domain Madness auction event by DomainConsultant will end with a live finale video broadcast from the Palms hotel in Vegas on March 31st, 2009 at 1pm CDT. The event starts in the DC suite and will continue  in the pool area after the conclusion of the auction. Any domainer is welcome to participate, but should [...]

Since the general availability phase of the new .TEL domain started on March 24th, the registry has now already passed 100,000 registrations according to insider sources. A 6-12 hour delay in new domain propagation, seems to confirm the high registry load. It seems that many investors, speculators and other registrants flock to the launch of [...]

In light of the news that Toys.com lost it’s Google placement, DNN reached out to SEO consultant John Andrews to get his take on the Toys.com deal and his view on an effective strategy to take using this multi-million dollar domain name asset. When Toys ‘R’ Us sought toys.com in a biding war with National [...]

Startup with hyphenated domain gets $1m USD in seed & angel funding, Frank Schilling owns non-hyphenated version [Conceptualist] Bido is launching another new feature today, giving bidders whose pre-auction bids wins the auction 2% in cashback in order to encourage proxy bids placed prior to the beginning of the auction. [Conceptualist] Tia Wood launches BulkDevelopment.com, [...]