Jay Westerdal has set up a new website to post developments in the ongoing lawsuit filed by Thought Convergence against Westerdal and other shareholders in his former company, Name Intelligence, Inc. TC bought Name Intelligence, Inc. for $16 million in May 2008 but the deal soon went sour.

Sales from the two live domain auctions at last month’s T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Silicon Valley conference started closing in large numbers this week to dominate our latest weekly sales chart. One of those broke the six-figure barrier to top the leader board. That name also ranks among the 15 highest sales reported so far this year.

Thought Convergence, the organizers of the Domain Roundtable conference coming up June 14-17 in Washington, D.C. will provide time during the show’s live domain auction to sell domains donated to support the Internet Commerce Association. Donations are now being sought for the June 16th sale.

Sedo’s latest GreatDomains premium domain auction ends Thursday afternoon at 1pm (U.S. Eastern time) with 80.com and CD.net among the names going on the block. Also, the AfternicDLS expands the reach of their domain sales platform through a strategic partnership with Trademark Express.

German domainer Markus Schnermann is the picture of good health: physical, mental, financial – you name it – he is at the top of his game. Domainers in his homeland often refer to Schnermann as a “superstar.” Heady stuff – especially for someone whose parents were once told they would have to care for him for the rest of his life.

DN Journal’s latest monthly newsletter features an exclusive interview with RickLatona.com President David Clements previewing the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. ccTLDs conference coming up June 1-4 in Amsterdam. This will be the first T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference ever staged in Europe.

Ron and Diana Jackson kicked off the long Memorial Day Weekend enjoying a visit from a domain industry friend and his family who were traveling through their neck of the woods. Meet their special guests and find out why the Jacksons will spend the rest of the holiday weekend unpacking boxes and moving furniture.

Attendees at next month’s Domain Roundtable Conference in Washington, D.C. will see two industry heavyweights, BuyDomains Co-Founder Michael Mann and Rob Monster (Monster Venture Partners), on a domain conference panel for the first time. The Castello Brothers will join them to complete an all-star lineup.

The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. The high end of the market returned this week with the biggest non .com global TLD sale of the year – a .org domain that commanded a cool $100,000. We also saw the year’s third highest country code sale, a German .de domain that attracted over $82,000.