Top 10 Reglike stories: 2012 in review
From airline mergers to politics to fresh TLDs, 2012 was an eventful year.
There are two types of stories that catch fire on Reglike: ones relevant to domain investing and those relevant to the world at sizable. All of my posts have to do with domain names, but sometimes they’re merely a tip off of something going on in politics or business.
Consider this year’s top story on Reglike: it was regarding the airline industry.
Here are this year’s top stories on Reglike.
1. American Airlines merger with U.S. Airways is a go, suggest domain registrations – well, no merger has been disclosed yet. But U.S. Airways thought it wise to protect domains related to a potential merger.
2. Go Daddy patents “announcing a domain name registration on a social website” – this story got a lot of attention on social media.
3. Go Daddy CEO Warren Adelman steps down – it was a surprising move as a long time domain industry figure stepped down from the top spot at Go Daddy regarding seven months following being promoted to the post. I interviewed Go Daddy founder Bob Parsons for this story.
4. Honey, I screwed up on my $185,000 fresh TLD application – a number of firms messed up their applications for fresh top level domains.
5. Blackstone Group states it “sucks” – 2012 was a year of “war on the PE firms”, thanks in part to attention brought by Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign. Blackstone was proactive, registering some negative domains counting blackstonesucks.com.
6. GoDaddy now offers free domain appraisals, but… – In April Go Daddy started offering free automated domain appraisals. But you get what you pay for, at least when it comes to valuing domains worth more than a couple grand.
7. Surprise? Facebook doesn’t apply for .Facebook. The firm did say in advance that it wasn’t applying for .facebook, but I’m still surprised it didn’t.
8. .XXX up to 137k active registrations, 220k total, and fresh $630k premium sale – the verdict is still out on .xxx, but ICM Registry has made a boatload of money.
9. Four newcomers among Top 10 domain parking firms – this post regarding results from the 7th annual Reglike survey got a lot of attention — probably since people were looking for a parking alternative. Soon you’ll be able to participate in the 2013 survey.
10. As Obama wins, domains by now snapped up for 2016 battle – names for 2016 campaigns are by now registered.
