And clicks from March — Top hits
Alpnames, a nice domain sale, and Tim-Berners Lee were hot stories in March.
March was a busy month at Reglike with regarding 140,000 page views.
Here are the top stories from the past month ranked by pageviews:
1. ICANN shuts down Alpnames domain name registrar – ICANN terminated Alpnames following it stopped functioning. Moniker is taking over its domains.
2. Cumberland.com domain name sells for $250,000 – Patience paid off for Shane Kinsch, who sold the domain following hand-registering it in 2000.
3. Some recent domain name observations – A four-letter, three-hyphen domain name and two .church domains in the wild.
4. The Mastermind created his own domain registrar to run his criminal enterprise – Paul Le Roux created an ICANN-accredited registrar to run his online pharma network so that his domains wouldn’t be suspended.
5. Tim Berners-Lee sighs every time you sell a domain name – On the 30th anniversary of the WWW, Tim Berners-Lee talks regarding domain investors.
If you missed any podcasts, download these to your podcast app or listen now:
Podcasts:
#229 7 ways to sell your domains – listen
#228 7Up and March Madness – listen
#227 Naming Tools with Anthony Shore – listen
#226 DNSSEC – listen
Interested in what people clicked on when reading DNW last month? These were the most visited-sites from Reglike not counting advertisers’ sites:
- ICANN.org – 684 clicks – Primarily for the Alpnames notice
- MyOrderBox.com – 336 – This was for controlling Alpnames domains, but the link is no longer necessary so I won’t add it.
- DomainIncite – 319 – Another one regarding Alpnames
- OneLook.com – 248 – This was a suggestion from 5 little-known tools for finding great domains
- Sketch Engine – 235 – Another one from that same article
