The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. Whiskey.com washed down $185,000 to whip all comers. Another highlight of the past seven days was the huge number of solid five-figure sales completed - 41 in all. That is nearly twice the number we usually see in that range in an average week. You can get all of the details here:
http://www.dnjournal.com/domainsales.htm

Back in early March of 2009, next to a picture of Ivor Sequerira, DNjournal highlighted Neustar with this paragraph:

"Sequeira's company, Neustar, operates the .US registry and he thinks America's often overlooked country code extension represents an excellent investment opportunity. Sequeira acknowledged complaints from current .US holders that the registry had done little to promote he extension and said that was about to change as they are planning to launch a new promotional campaign. Sequeira also said many registrars have not given the extension the kind of visibility it deserves but he predicted that you will soon see much more activity surrounding the .US brand."


Here we are, nine months later, and Sequeira has proven to be a BS-er, unless that I missed that "new promotional campaign." Did anyone else see that promotional campaign?

I like the way Sequeira blames the registrars: "... many registars have not given the extension the kind of visibility it deserves ...". What a bunch of B.S. Why should the registrars get behind the extension when a mouthpiece for Neustar is full of complete B.S.?

Here's another example of an industry insider willing to lie to DNjournal's readers, knowing he'll probably never be held accountable for those lies. At very least, Sequeira doesn't feel the need to follow-up and update DNjournal with exactly why we haven't seen results based on what he promised back in March?

It's time for domainers, and the likes of DNjournal, to hold the companies and their BS-ing spokespeople accountable for what they promise, and voice our anger with our wallets. It would be a shame to have to let a few hundred-thousand .us names drop in order to motivate Neustar to get serious and quit treating us as though we are complete idiots. We get enough of that from some domain auctioneers and their employees, we don't need any more of it from the registries.

Perhaps a follow-up column in DNjournal could address this issue. That would be some good journalism.

The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. There were no blockbusters this week but Sedo rang up a bucket load of solid five-figure sales to sweep the first 8 spots on our new Top 20 Chart. They also placed eight ccTLDs on the all extension leader board including a trio that ranked among the five biggest sales. You can get all of the details here: http://www.dnjournal.com/domainsales.htm