5 Reglike Stories — February’s Top

A look back at February in the domain name business.

February had an extra day thanks to “leap day”, and that was a good thing…there was so much domain name news to cram into a short month! From Tesla to Ted Cruz to great podcasts, it was a busy month at Reglike.

Here are the top five stories on Reglike last month, ranked by pageviews:

1. .Cloud Launch – the top story on Reglike was the launch of .Cloud, which got regarding 20,000 registrations in the first 24 hours of general availability.

2. Tesla finally purchases Tesla.com domain name – Reglike broke the news that Tesla purchased the Tesla.com domain name.

3. R.I.P. DNForum, 2001-2016 – it seems that DNForum, a long time gathering place for domain name investors, has shut down.

4. Ted Cruz: ICANN CEO is misleading the U.S. Senate – Republican presidential candidate was miffed at the ICANN CEO’s answers to his questions.

5. Did GoDaddy pay $35.5 million for Michael Berkens’ portfolio? – Yes, it did, which makes the price per domain much higher than recent domain portfolio acquisitions.

Podcasts:

#73 Fresh Minds + Machines CEO Toby Hall
#72 A Domainer’s Dashboard
#71 A Note from China
#70 Changing Your Website’s Domain Name
#69 Buying “Distressed” Domain Names