The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. Sedo was firing on all cylinders this week, sweeping the first five spots on our new Top 20 sales chart with a six-figure sale leading their charge. A .net and a .info each earned spots in the first five & the ccTLDs continued to show strength, taking four chart entries.

A small business start-up boom continues to gain steam in the midst of the recession as laid off employees decide to try working for themselves. The trend is boosting low to mid-range sales in the domain aftermarket, even though the high end continues to lag.

With the severe downturn in the general economy this might not seem like the best time to open a new business but that hasn’t stopped a trio of veteran domainers from starting up three new companies this month. Plus, a San Francisco group announces plans to pursue a .radio extension.

Is “Twittersquatting” the new Cybersquatting? Pingdom.com says it is and they have some interesting facts to back up their case. Elsewhere the ICA files a Friend of the Court brief in the Kentucky domain seizure case.

The Internet is the ONLY media platform expected to see a growth in ad revenues this year. Everyone knows newspapers have become basket cases but new data shows magazines are taking a fierce beating too. Declines in ad revenue in the first quarter of 2009 were mind boggling in every magazine category.

The keynote speaker has been selected for the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Silicon Valley conference coming up April 27-30 in Santa Clara, California. He is Scott Klososky, a man who has been growing technology companies for more than 20 years, including one he just sold for $115 million.

GoDaddy is being sued for alleged cybersquatting in their domain parking program. Ubid, Inc. filed the suit in a U.S. District Court, asserting that GoDaddy is diverting Internet traffic to deceptive parked domains in violation of the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act.

The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. Last month Richard Gabriel sold Auction.com for $1.7 million in the year’s third biggest domain sale to date. Gabriel is back on our weekly Top 20 chart this week, but this time as the buyer of the week’s most expensive domain.

The complete catalog for Moniker’s live and extended online domain auctions at this month’s T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Silicon Valley conference has been released showing over 5,500 domains scheduled to go on the block.