4chan, Google and more: Top 5 Reglike stories from August

August was a busy month in the domain name industry.

Business usually grinds to a halt in August. Families head out on vacation and kids enjoy their last weeks of freedom ahead of heading back to school.

But it wasn’t a slow month in the domain name business. Fresh top level domain names continued to roll out en masse. A three letter domain name sold for $1 million. Popular bulletin board 4chan lost a domain dispute. And Google started inviting more people to try its domain name registrar beta.

Below are the top five stories that ran on Reglike last month, ranked by views.

1. 4chan loses domain name dispute with Oversee.net

Popular image board 4chan.org lost a UDRP filed against 4chan.com since it failed to prove that the domain name was registered in bad faith.

2. A look inside Google’s fresh domain name registrar

Google’s domain name registration beta shows that the firm views domain registration as a way to get more businesses online.

3. The state of the domain name industry

This brief overview of the domain investing market proved popular.

4. A look at .Com numbers over the past 5 years

Growth rates are down, but .com is still growing.

5. Wow: BTC.com domain name sells for $1.0 million to Bitcoin firm

Bitcoin has created millionaires in real coins, which perhaps showed in the seven-figure purchase of BTC.com.