The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. Continuing a trend we saw develop in 2008, high end domain sales remain few and far between while small business end users dominate aftermarket activity with four-figure and low five-figure purchases. All reported sales were well under the $50,000 mark

The Kentucky Court of Appeals has overturned a local judge’s controversial order that 141 gambling related domain names be turned over to the state. The appeals court ruled that the lower court was wrong in claiming that the domains were “gambling devices” that are illegal under Kentucky law. Michael Berkens has been on top of this story from the start and has more details on his blog.

Parked.com introduced a new account management system today. In the past each client had just an account rep. In the new system every customer gets an entire Account Management Team with each team including an account manager, a domain optimizer and a “developer”.

DN Journal’s annual State of the Industry Cover Story has just been published. After 4 years of robust growth the domain business hit stormy weather in 2008. To make sense of what happened and get predictions on where we are headed in 2009 we called on 15 top industry leaders for our 5th annual report.

While no one likes to see domain industry layoffs, there is an upside for start up companies and existing firms with holes to fill and budgets to fill them. Some very knowledgeable, experienced industry pros are becoming available for the first time in years. One of them is likely to be the perfect person to complete your team.