Domain Name News Stories of August 2009 — Top 5

A busy month for domain news.

August is usually a slow news month. But not this year, at least in the domain business. Reglike once again topped 100k page views on site (and at least as much through RSS). Here are the top five stories as stated by page views, as well as the top clicks.

1. Yahoo Buys OMG.com Domain Name for $80,000 – Yahoo picks up domain name for its popular celebrity site. A nice domain to use in addition to a sub domain.

2. Ad.com Sale Falls Through, Lawsuit Filed – The $1.4M ad.com sale has fallen through, no thanks to AOL’s over-reaching trademark claims.

3. Server.com Sells for $770,000, Jesus.net for $124,000 – The sale of Server.com gets the major media attention. But Jesus, that’s a lot for a .net!

4. Oversee.net Sues Skenzo, Oversee and Guillen Explain Their Sides – More regarding the Ad.com fallout. For the sake of the entire industry, let’s hope this gets resolved soon.

5. “Assumed Name Squatter” Gets Squatted Herself – this story has a sad ending. Comments are off.

Here are the top 6 clicks from Reglike to other sites, not counting the paid ads in the columns:

1. Sedo
2. PlayingTheAngles.com
3. Epik
4. Conceptualist
5. FreshDrop
6. Domaining

And finally, here are the top 6 referrers of traffic to Reglike for the month:

1. Google
2. Domaining
3. TechCrunch
4. NameBee
5. TechMeme
6. Twitter

Many thanks to everyone for reading and supporting the site.