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 DNJournal: DOMAINfest Global 2012 is now history. The 6th annual show concluded in Santa Monica with a farewell breakfast this morning that followed last night’s grand finale at the House of Blues. We have closing day photos and highlights that pick up where we left off near the end of Day 2.

 DNJournal: Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com we have Photos & Highlights from the DOMAINfest Global conference, covering late Day 1 activity last night as well as today’s Day 2 events in Santa Monica.

 DNJournal: The 2012 DOMAINFest Global Conference is underway. While the show officially opened this morning, there was a lot of pre-show activity last night including a big soiree hosted by Frank Schilling. We have photos and highlights from that as well as today’s opening sessions in Santa Monica.

 DNJournal: Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: The SedoMLS Network announces a new partnership with registration giant Go Daddy, the doors open at the DOMAINfest Global conference in Santa Monica this afternoon and we break down 2011 domain sales data and ponder how much money lies beneath the tip of the sales iceberg.

 DNJournal: DN Journal’s January Newsletter is going out to opt-in subscribers today. It analyzes 2011 domain sales results vs. 2010 (as well as 4Q-2011 results). In addition to overall market numbers, the newsletter (also available at our site) looks at how well the individual categories, .coms, ccTLDs & non .com gTLDs, performed in 2011.

 DNJournal: For the 8th consecutive year, DNJournal.com kicks off the New Year with our annual State of the Industry Cover Story, an endeavor that brought together 15 experts and company leaders from across the industry to get their thoughts on the key trends of the past year and what they believe is in store in the year ahead.

 NeuNews.com: Rep. Edward Markey was one of eight U.S. lawmakers who sent a letter to Google expressing concern that a planned consolidation of user information may make it more difficult for consumers to protect their privacy.

 DNJournal: Today in the Lowdown at DN Journal: .Com registrations pass another milestone – the 100 million mark. Plus, DOMAINfest Global releases the final agenda for next week’s big show in Santa Monica and domain sales giants Afternic and Sedo have announcements about the latest expansion of their respective platforms.

 Michael Gilmour: Once again I find myself in the Melbourne, Australia Qantas club about to board QF93 to LA and DomainFest. It’s getting to be a bit of a strange feeling as I greet some of my now good friends at the reception desk and they say comments like, “It’s good to see you again Michael”. Hmmmmm……maybe I’ve been flying a little too much!
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 DNJournal: Last week a half dozen ccTLDs and a pair of non .com gTLDs earned placed on DN Journal’s all extension Top 20 Sales Chart.. This week they did a complete switch with the non .com gTLDs taking six places while the country codes had to settle for two. One constant was the .coms who again took the most chart entries.