Domain Name News Stories September 2008 — Top 5

A look back at the past 30 days in domain news.

As the world’s economies made headlines, the domain industry chugged along. Here are the top 5 news stories on Reglike for September, ranked by views.

1. Dell: “We’re F’d” – Dell is either creating a fresh line of highly interactive computers or is making defensive domain registrations. Within minutes of this article going up, the traffic from Dell HQ in Round Rock, Texas started hitting Reglike.

2. Ricks Files Lawsuit to Retain Control of BME.com. Remind me to not write regarding something that gets the body modification community in a tizzy again. You’ll see 47 comments on this story, but I had to delete the 20 or so that contained rampant profanity.

3. Google Chrome Domain Names – A look at domain names related to Google’s fresh browser. By the way, regarding 3.75% of visits to Reglike last month were accessed via the fresh browser.

4. Domainer Selling Virtual Real Estate to Buy Physical Real Estate – Chad Wright had a successful sale of his premium geo domains. He’s using the money to buy distressed physical real estate.

5. Rick Latona Domain Name Auction Nets $750k – it turns out the auction didn’t gross quite that much; the online auction software showed domains as sold that were not. But the auction still did rather well for a first time event.