News Stories of March 2009 — Top Domain

A look back at the past month in domain names.

Here are the top 5 stories on Reglike for March 2009, ranked in order of views.

1. Toys.com Loses Google Ranking – thanks in part to getting on the front page of Digg, this story regarding Toys.com losing its ranking on Google received more visits than any other article on Reglike — ever.

2. Will Toys ‘R’ Us Flub $5.1M Toys.com Purchase? Um, yes it will. At least as far as SEO is concerned. This article was written ahead of the article in #1. Of course it’s easy to be an armchair SEO.

3. Billion Dollar Firm Loses Key Domain Name – Austin, TX based Silicon Labs (NASDAQ: SLAB) lost the domain name SiliconLabs.com when it expired. It’s now fighting to get the domain name back through arbitration.

4. Dell Buys Adamo.com Domain Name – In the better-late-than-never category, Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) belatedly bought the domain name Adamo.com from Tucows’ Yummy Names for its Adamo computer line. Wow, that’s two Austin firms in a row making mistakes. I need to hit the streets to help these guys out.

5. GoDaddy Makes It Harder for Woman’s Husband to Find a Job – I was hoping this wouldn’t make the top 5 since I sort of messed up on this one. It was the owner of the domain that messed up, not GoDaddy. The DNS was GoDaddy, but the owner set up a CNAME to Apple web hosting. GoDaddy just looked bad since people trying to find a highly publicized site were shown a GoDaddy parked page.