Both of Chicago’s daily newspapers are now in bankruptcy after the Sun Times files for court protection…You can now view videos of the seminars from January’s DOMAINfest Global conference online at no charge…plus some other notes about upcoming events.

DN Journal’s latest monthly newsletter features a conversation with Rick Schwartz that reveals what is in store for the upcoming T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference in Silicon Valley as well as Schwartz’s views on the future of domain monetization, live auctions & the domain industry itself.

In the last big economic downturn domainers like Frank Schilling and Kevin Ham made their fortunes by buying up assets few others wanted. Could history repeat itself in the current slump? Rick Schwartz predicts some domainers will indeed hit it big, but the new fortunes will come from something other than domains!

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 to their site. Dell had previously been using the domain name AdamoByDell.com and claimed to have contacted Tucows through a broker before, but broke off contact when the broker got the impression that the price would be too high. The domain name was originally part of a portfolio of names of a company called Mailbank, which was purchased by Tucows as part of the Netidentity acquisition in 2006.

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Upcoming Domain Industry Events, Conferences & Auctions

The theme for next month’s GeoDomain Expo in San Diego will be “Freefall! (How to Monetize the Collapse of Traditional Media).” A stunning new report on revenue declines in the newspaper industry underscores the timeliness of the Expo’s theme and the huge opportunity opening up for geodomain owners.