A look back at November in the domain name business.
November was a super-busy month here on Domain Name Wire. The DNW Podcast had a bunch of great shows, one of my stories hit the mainstream press, and we learned that a big domain name company exchanged hands for $44.9 million.
Every month, I run down the top five posts from the past month. This month I’m going to add a bit to it by looking at the most clicked links within Domain Name Wire stories.
5 of the 6 top clicks from last month were from one story: a list of Mike Bloomberg domains registered by HBO for John Oliver’s comedy show Last Week Tonight. The five links combined were clicked 1,955 times last month.
The #2 most clicked in-story link was a link to DomainPunch from this story; it got 411 clicks.
A Miami Beach Realtor got 149 clicks from this story about .Realtor domain names.
OK, now on to November’s top 5 stories:
1. Michael Bloomberg’s hilarious .NYC domain name registrations – the top story of last month made it all the way to the Wall Street Journal, CNBC, and Last Week Tonight. Read about Michael Bloomberg’s funny .nyc domain names.
2. John Oliver’s five .NYC domain names making fun of Michael Bloomberg – the aforementioned Last Week Tonight pickup, and also the most-clicked links from last month.
3. Why Endurance bought BuyDomains, and why the price might make sense – publicly traded Endurance paid $44.9 million to acquire BuyDomains. Here’s why.
4. What do Amazon and Google domain name losses mean for new TLDs? Amazon.com and Google are losing some of the new TLD contention sets they’re in. What do their losses mean for new TLDs in general?
5. IDN.com owners will lose big if Verisign doesn’t get its way – they might be forced to pay up for IDN.IDN equivalents within a limited time frame.
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