Here’s a look at the top 5 domain name news stories of July.
Following are the five most viewed news stories at DomainNameWire.com for the month of July, ranked in order of views.
#1: New Domain Name Renewal Scam Hits Inboxes – yet another domain renewal scam is making its rounds. After publishing this story, the credit card processor that was an unwilling participant in the scam shut down the scammer’s account. Alas, the scammer merely started collecting credit card numbers for himself. I’m still receiving a few of these fraudulant emails each week.
#2: Internet Brands Files for $100M IPO – Internet Brands, formerly known as CarsDirect, filed to raise up to $100M in an initial public offering. The company owns valuable domain names including Autos.com and Loan.com. As Domain Name Wire’s article first pointed out, Internet Brands has a collection of web sites that happen to contain trademarked terms…although the trademark owners don’t seem to mind.
#3: Valuable Names Closes Down, Offers Domain Name Lists – I first reviewed Valuable Names, a high end service for discovering valuable domain names, in May 2006. The service is closing and owner Lee Hodgson is selling off the database behind the service. Frank Schilling wrote, “Surely a treasure trove of info in there”, referring to the database. For a follow up story about the man behind Valuable Names, see The Domain Guru Talks About Valuable Names, IDNs.
#4: Role of Domain Registrars to Change Over Next 5 Years – What will be the role of domain registrars five years from now? There will be less focus on registrations and more focus on domain management.
#5: Majority of Domain Names are Purchased as Investments– research of the top 100 reported domain name sales in 2006 uncovers that 65% of big ticket domain purchases are made by investors, not end users.
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