5 Domain Name Stories — September’s Top

From a police raid to a lawsuit, here are top stories from September.

It’s time for a look back at the past month on DNW. These were the top five stories on this site, ranked in order of views.

Spanish police raid .Cat domain name registry offices – A police raid of the .cat offices was really just the start of a crackdown on an independence referendum.

Namecheap sues Enom and Tucows, demands transfer of 4 million domains – Namecheap states Tucows is dragging its feet on transferring domain names through the easiest method. Tucows has responded.

Amy Schumer files cybersquatting complaint against GoDaddy’s NameFind – The popular comedian wants amy-schumer.com. Her official website is AmySchumer.com.

Instagram registers Doxagram domain names in wake of data breach – Instagram registered a bunch of names related to a hacker group following its data was stolen.

My first domain name sale through DomainAgents – I sold a domain through DomainAgents for the first time. Interestingly, it wasn’t one I listed with the service.

Podcasts

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#154 – Chad Folkening talks regarding how he’s building out websites and using cryptocurrency to build the network.

#153 – Learn regarding chatbots and if they will change how people use the web.

#152 – GDPR is going to affect everyone in the domain name business. Here’s how.

#151 – Sedo Chief Sales Officer Matthias Meyer-Schönherr discusses sales trends counting .ai and .io domain names.