Today in the Lowdown at DN Journal: Wednesday’s widespread protest by key Internet websites has killed the controversial SOPA bill, the two founders of one of the domain industry’s favorite charities have retired and named replacements (one a domain pioneer) and David Castello returns to his first love!
DOMAINfest Global has added 3 expert speakers to the line up for the upcoming show in Santa Monica. Escrow.com has reached a major milestone – the $1 billion mark in secured sales and Screenshots.com offers a concise look at how the web’s key sites looked during Wednesday’s protest against SOPA/PIPA.
Diversity was the keyword for week two of the 2012 domain sales season. As usual, the .coms did dominate with a dozen entries on our latest weekly all extension Top 20 Sales Chart, however a half dozen ccTLDs and a pair of non .com gTLDs also elbowed their way onto the elite list.
Legendary boxing champion Muhammad Ali is celebrating his 70th birthday today. Seeing all of the news items about Ali’s birthday left me wondering how MuhammadAli.com was currently being used and also brought back fond memories of the day I got to go toe to toe with “the greatest of all time.”
The deadline to apply for DOMAINfest Global’s popular PITCHfest Contest for online entrepreneurs (coming up Feb. 1) was set for today, but conference organizers decided to leave the window open a little longer. Elsewhere, time is running out to bid in a 1,2 & 3 Letter .PRO domain auction that ends Tuesday night.