Reglike stories — Top 5

The Fresh York Times nameserver hijacking dominated last month’s news.

Each month I post a list of the top news stories from the prior month. I’m a bit behind for August thanks to the U.S. holiday the prior week and a trip to visit domain firms in Seattle (more on that later).

Here’s a list of the top five stories on Reglike last month:

1. ICANN officially kills Google’s plan for dotless .search top level domain name – Google’s hope for a dotless .search domain name is dead…for now. It will have to lobby ICANN post-grant to offer it as a dotless domain. This won’t change Google’s plans to go following the domain, still.

2. How The Fresh York Times could have prevented yesterday’s attack for just $50 – The NYTimes.com domain name was missing an inexpensive security feature called Registry Lock.

3. Billionaire pays $2,395 for his domain name – and other weekly end user domain name sales.

4. Daniel Negari has bold ambitions for changing the domain space with .XYZ – Negari’s next business quest involves three top level domain names.

5. Melbourne IT the weak link as Twitter and NY Times domain names compromised – see story #1.