Taylor Swift, Rangers and Google: February’s top 5 stories

Taylor Swift’s strange domain name registration was the most popular story on Reglike last month.

February was a very cold and snowy month for much of the northern hemisphere, but a few domain name stories heated
things up a bit. Here are the top five stories on Reglike last month:

1. Taylor Swift’s domain name registration – following her former guitar teacher registered a domain name with her name in it, Swift’s peeps registered a rather, um, dirty domain name with her name.

2. Texas Rangers get Rangers.com – The ball club paid $375,000 for the domain name. Now Major League Baseball is missing just three team names in .com.

3. Google pays $25 million for .app – the firm paid a record amount to acquire the top level domain name.

4. Oh my, Verisign is actually scared of fresh TLDs – there are few other explanations for its recent lawsuit.

5. Expire.com launches as Dutch auction for domain names – it has sold a good number of domains so far, too.