The Newsletter will receive exposure on DNForum.com and DomainState.com as well, should be interesting. Francois will probably receive a lot of submissions, so be reasonable and submit great domains at reseller prices.

First of all, they added two “Marketplace Madness” sections, one for domains and one for everything else. The principle is simple: 24-hour deals. Their old marketplace sections are still there, so nothing changed on that front.

Aside from these two, it seems they also added a fun section and one where members can claim some free Protrada credits (both NamePros and DNForum have partnerships with Protrada).

That’s it, just wanted to let you know.

Anyway, I’m pretty sure there are loophones which make it possible for you to own some even if you don’t live in Europe. Maybe some loopholes which are similar to the .de one, I’m not 100% sure though. In my opinion, the best thing for the .fr extension and especially for the liquidity of its reseller market would be letting anyone register .fr domains.

Now I’m not 100% sure but it seems that the $1 option is still there if both parties are from the US, for example. Ireland seems to also be a country for which $1 masspay payments are still available but as far as most countries are concerned, the $1 masspay option is a thing of the past.

That’s it, just wanted to let you guys know. If you’re reading this and are currently working for one of the important companies of our industry, feel free to send press releases to office@billiondollarmedia.com if you want to share something important. I already receive press releases from several companies but feel free to send yours as well.

I can’t guarantee that I’ll post about the topic you recommended on DomainingTips.com but if the information is genuinely something domainers will find useful, I’ll gladly share it.

Here is an official FB statement about why they are no longer interested in keeping Daily Deals alive:

After testing Deals for four months, we’ve decided to end our Deals product in the coming weeks. We think there is a lot of power in a social approach to driving people into local businesses. We remain committed to building products to help local businesses connect with people, like Ads, Pages, Sponsored Stories, and Check-in Deals. We’ve learned a lot from our test and we’ll continue to evaluate how to best serve local businesses.

For more information about why they are no longer interested in keeping Daily Deals around, click HERE and to find out why they discontinued Places, click HERE.

This is good news for domainers and let’s face it: there’s no such thing as a “domain killer”. Without domains, the Internet would basically cease to exist. Apps, Facebook, Twitter? These are all impressive projects but if you think they represent “domain killers”, you have a lot to learn about how things work on the Internet.

In my opinion, we need to analyze this situation while also taking recent “government intervention” events into consideration (websites being shut down, problematic legal issues such as the ones in California and so on). Do you think that more “Internet regulation” is a good thing or a slippery slope?

My question is simple: how much is “too much” as far as you’re concerned?

There are over 108 million dot com + dot net domains at the moment of writing and when it comes to new registrations, we have a 2.7% increase compared to 2010’s 4th quarter. As far as dot com and dot net renewals are concerned, Q1 has brought a pretty decent growth, from 72.7% in Q4 to a respectable 73.8%.

The previously mentioned ~108 million domains have been analyzed, here are the usage conclusions: 21% of them are currently being used as one-page websites, 67% are currently being used as websites with more than one page and 12% aren’t being used at all.