Domain name stories from last month — Top 5

GoDaddy’s buyout, Frank Schilling’s auction and more.

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I apparently neglected to publish my monthly post regarding the top stories from the prior month. So better late than never, these were the top 5 stories on Reglike last month ranked by views.

1. GoDaddy to acquire MMX, .Club, .Design – More domain industry consolidation as GoDaddy disclosed it’s acquiring 30 top level domain names as part of its GoDaddy Registry business.

2. Bloomberg writes regarding Nick Lim and Epik – Bloomberg published an interesting story regarding Nick Lim, who sold his firm BitMitigate to domain name register Epik in 2019.

3. Frank Schilling’s top level domain auction begins today – Auction bids totaled over $40 million.

4. Stands4 sues Dan.com over Calculator.com transaction – A firm sued Dan.com following it bought a hot domain.

5. ICANN sends breach notice to Pheenix – Following over a year of not hearing back from the registrar, ICANN finally sent a breach notice.

Miss a podcast? Catch up now:

#335 – Developing your domains into a business with Michael Cyger – listen

#334 – Tackling DNS Abuse with Graeme Bunton – listen

#333 – More domain investing competition with Braden Pollock – listen

#332 – The “fresh” NamesCon and Cloudfest with Christian Jaeger and Soeren von Varchmin – listen

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