Name Stories of January 2009 — Top Domain

A look back at the previous month in domain names.

2009 started with a bang in the domain name industry. Here’s a look at the top five fresh articles (by views) on Reglike:

1. GoDaddy Takes on eBay, Amazon.com, and Yahoo – in a rather perplexing and unexpected move, GoDaddy launched an online marketplace for people to sell physical goods.

2. Mystery Domain Auction Isn’t Regarding Domain Names – was that really just last month? I wouldn’t be surprised to see some sort of variation on this idea pop up again.

3. Go Daddy Thwarts Cyber Criminal, 1,000 Accounts Locked – Reglike broke the news that user information in 1,000 GoDaddy accounts was compromised. Fortunately, GoDaddy proactively spotted the problem and fixed the vulnerability.

4. Register.com’s Client Service Lie – the comments got a bit out of hand on this article regarding Register.com’s practice of requiring clients to call in to get transfer authorization codes. It didn’t help when a Register.com employee posted a comment pretending to be just a client.

5. Oversee.net Lays Off 18% of Staff – Oversee.net laid off another 18% as it prepared for a “very difficult economic environment in 2009”. Expect similar announcements from the firm’s competitors this year.