Reglike Stories from July 2013 — Top 5

An buyout, domain disputes, defensive registrations, and fresh TLDs top last month’s news.

July was a busy month at Reglike, thanks in part to the launch of our redesign.

Ahead of we go forward, let’s take a quick step back and look at the top 5 stories on Reglike last month.

1. It’s not really Walmart: Walmart goes following union’s parody site

Walmart filed a UDRP against a union’s domain names that are used to parody a Walmart website.

2. USPS loses to Amazon.com on .Mail top level domain objection

The first of many rejections for the United States Postal Service, which apparently thinks it has a monopoly on the term “mail”.

3. Did SeaWorld register domain names to counter Blackfish movie?

Incidentally, I went to SeaWorld the prior week and overheard a couple employees talking regarding the movie.

4. Q&A with Matt Mazur, who just sold his domain name search firm to Automattic

Automattic is beefing up its domain discovery with Lean Domain Search.

5. GoDaddy lets clients “watch” fresh TLDs

GoDaddy lets clients “watch” their favorite future top level domain names.