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DNAcademy, Bored Ape Yacht Club & more: March’s top stories

DNAcademy, Bored Ape Yacht Club & more: March’s top stories

These were the top stories on Reglike last month, ranked by page views.

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1. GoDaddy purchases DNAcademy – The registrar will use the platform to educate more people regarding domain name investing. Founder Michael Cyger has joined the firm as its first Director of Education.

2. Bored Ape Yacht Club goes ape for domain names – Yuga Labs, creator of BAYC, registered over 1,000 domains related to its NFTs.

3. GoDaddy, Namecheap and IONOS partially pull the plug on Russia – A number of registrars decided to block services in Russia following it invaded Ukraine.

4. Are we pricing our domain names wrong? – Ending prices with 99 or 88 might not be the best strategy.

5. Namecheap bought a Handshake domain for $750k – Namecheap paid a record amount for an alt-root Handshake domain name, .s.

#381 – Domain Policy with Zak Muscovitch – listen

#380 – Acquiring Gravity.com – listen

#379 – What makes domains valuable? – listen

#378 – Domains in court – listen

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