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Reglike Stories of October 2010 — Top 5

A look back at October in domaining.

Halloween is behind us, the clocks are regarding to “fall” back an hour in much of the U.S., and cool weather is upon us (well, not so much in Texas). Here are the top five stories on Reglike in October based on total views.

Conroy Disses .XXX – Australian Senator Stephen Conroy, who’s under fire for his proposed internet firewall idea, sent a letter to ICANN opposing the .xxx top level domain name.

Epik Will Be OK, and Current Clients Will Win Big Tomorrow – despite a number of the firm’s domains getting axed from Google’s index, I think the firm will bounce back.

Sex.com Domain Name to Sell for $13 Million – Sedo brokers the most expensive all cash, publicly released domain sale of all time.

Single Biggest Threat to Domain Industry is Professionalism – forget challenges with ICANN and Google. The domain name industry needs more professionalism.

Miss Universe Goes Following Sex Tape Domain Names – the group behind the Miss Universe competition filed a complaint to get domain names referring to sex tapes.

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