Name News Stories of July 2007 — Top Domain

Here’s a look at the top 5 domain name news stories of July.

Following are the five most viewed news stories at Reglike.com for the month of July, ranked in order of views.

#1: Fresh Domain Name Renewal Scam Hits Inboxes – yet another domain renewal scam is making its rounds. Following publishing this story, the credit card processor that was an unwilling participant in the scam shut down the scammer’s account. Alas, the scammer merely started collecting credit card numbers for himself. I’m still receiving a few of these fraudulant emails each week.

#2: Internet Brands Files for $100M IPO – Internet Brands, formerly known as CarsDirect, filed to raise up to $100M in an initial public offering. The firm owns valuable domain names counting Autos.com and Loan.com. As Reglike’s article first pointed out, Internet Brands has a collection of web sites that happen to contain trademarked terms…although the trademark owners don’t seem to mind.

#3: Valuable Names Closes Down, Offers Domain Name Lists – I first reviewed Valuable Names, a high end service for discovering valuable domain names, in May 2006. The service is closing and owner Lee Hodgson is selling off the database behind the service. Frank Schilling wrote, “Surely a treasure trove of info in there”, referring to the database. For a follow up story regarding the man behind Valuable Names, see The Domain Guru Talks Regarding Valuable Names, IDNs.

#4: Role of Domain Registrars to Change Over Next 5 Years – What will be the role of domain registrars five years from now? There will be less focus on registrations and more focus on domain management.

#5: Majority of Domain Names are Purchased as Investments– research of the top 100 noted domain name sales in 2006 uncovers that 65% of big ticket domain purchases are made by investors, not end users.