Top 5 Domain News Stories of September 2009
Thursday, October 1st, 2009
A look at the top five news stories on Domain Name Wire in September.
It was another strong month for traffic at Domain Name Wire. Here are the top five articles for the month, ranked by traffic.
1. Go Daddy Files Patents for Enhanced Whois and DNS Records – Go Daddy has filed for a few patents related to enhancing whois and DNS records, making them interactive.
2. U.S. Postal Service Delivers USPS.mobi Domain Name – The United States Postal Service has won the domain name usps.mobi through arbitration. The domain has not yet been transferred to its ownership.
3. Domain Name Appraisal Scam Update – the latest round of domain name appraisals scams must be catching a lot of victims, as they are sending out a lot of emails.
4. Minds+Machines Sues Wolfgang Puck over .Food TLD – As if the new gTLD rollout needed any more drama…
5. The Real Truth About New Top Level Domains – here’s what’s really going on with the introduction of new top level domain names.
Further Reading:
Top 5 Domain News Stories of September 2009 – http://tinyurl.com/yd6ptca
I see you got roughly 700 visits from Twitter on the GoDaddy patents article according to bit.ly click data. I chatted it up a bit
The best post imo though was (#5), your editorial on new TLD’s… excellent job breaking all the information down. Keep it up, thanks Andrew.
Thanks for the plug on Twitter, Mark. It solves a bit of a mystery for me — b/c they went through bit.ly, they showed as direct traffic rather than Twitter. Another reader got it up on Reddit, which brought it the hardcore tech community.