5 domain name stories — October’s Top

PayPal, a fly, and some expensive domain forwards made for top domain name news last month.

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Here are the stories that attracted the most attention on Reglike last month.

1. PayPal drops Epik, sparking registrar to cry it is being “deplatformed” – PayPal wasn’t trying to deplatform the firm; it had risk concerns. Regardless, Big Tech has too much power.

2. Biden campaign jumps on fly on Pence’s head with FlyWillVote.com – A quick and clever domain registration. Some people thought the fly was part of some conspiracy, though, which states a lot regarding the state of the nation.

3. Domain appraisal scammers try to take advantage of fresh GoDaddy contact system – The appraisal scam is now pretending to be a “certified” offer from GoDaddy or Sedo.

4. 3 firms paid $100k+ for domain forwards – GoDaddy released its first batch of domain sales data in years, and three of the top sales went to firms that bought the domains to forward them to other domains.

5. XYZ purchases 5 more top level domains counting .Autos, .Homes – XYZ keeps adding to its top level domain stable, this time by acquiring Dominion Domains’ portfolio.

Miss a Reglike Podcast in October? Listen now:

#307 – It’s on .Fox with Crews Gore (listen)

#308 – Domain valuation with Michael Cyger (listen)

#309 – Domain leasing, selling domains and more (listen)

#310 – The domain sales stack with Reza Sardeha (listen)