Top 5 Domain Name stories — Last month’s

Two acquisitions highlight top stories on Reglike last month.

Apparently the snow has thawed in Boston, and things are definitely heating up in the domain name name industry. There were two notable acquisitions last month and big changes at Google.

Here’s a look back at the top 5 stories on Reglike last month:

1. GoDaddy purchases Marchex’s domain name portfolio for $28 million– Marchex divested its domain name portfolio of over 200,000 domains, and now GoDaddy has its own portfolio of domains to sell.

2. Is Amazon.com the biggest user of fresh domain names?– Amazon has registered a lot of dictionary word fresh TLDs and is forwarding them to sections of its website.

3. Google nixing domain names in mobile search – Many sites now just show a site name instead of the URL.

4. .London, .NYC and fresh ways to calculate the success of a TLD – A comparison of how domain names are being used.

5. Escrow.com purchased for $7.5 million – Service popular with domain name sellers is purchased by Australian firm.