And Domain Name News Stories from November — Top Clicks
A look back at November in the domain name business.
November was a super-busy month here on Reglike. The DNW Podcast had a bunch of great shows, one of my stories hit the mainstream press, and we learned that a big domain name firm exchanged hands for $44.9 million.
Every month, I run down the top five posts from the past month. This month I’m going to add a bit to it by looking at the most clicked links within Reglike stories.
5 of the 6 top clicks from last month were from one story: a list of Mike Bloomberg domains registered by HBO for John Oliver’s comedy show The prior week Tonight. The five links combined were clicked 1,955 times last month.
The #2 most clicked in-story link was a link to DomainPunch from this story; it got 411 clicks.
A Miami Beach Realtor got 149 clicks from this story regarding .Realtor domain names.
OK, now on to November’s top 5 stories:
1. Michael Bloomberg’s hilarious .NYC domain name registrations – the top story of last month made it all the way to the Wall Street Journal, CNBC, and The prior week Tonight. Read regarding Michael Bloomberg’s funny .nyc domain names.
2. John Oliver’s five .NYC domain names making fun of Michael Bloomberg – the aforementioned The prior week Tonight pickup, and also the most-clicked links from last month.
3. Why Endurance bought BuyDomains, and why the price might make sense – publicly traded Endurance paid $44.9 million to acquire BuyDomains. Here’s why.
4. What do Amazon and Google domain name losses mean for fresh TLDs? Amazon.com and Google are losing some of the fresh TLD contention sets they’re in. What do their losses mean for fresh TLDs in general?
5. IDN.com owners will lose big if Verisign doesn’t get its way – they might be forced to pay up for IDN.IDN equivalents within a limited time frame.
