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April was action-packed in the domain name business, and May promises to be even more so. If flying to Seattle for the http://dnseattle.com/http://dnseattle.com/ on May 25 and hope to see you there.

Here are the top five stories from last month, ranked in order of page views.

1. Wow: Spectrum (Charter) is a reverse domain name hijacker - Why did one of the nation's biggest cable and communications companies resort to reverse domain name hijacking? This is a shocking case.

2. This $20 billion company uses a new TLD for its website, and… - DXC Technology, a merger of CSC and HP Enterprise Services, is using a .technology domain name for its website but .com for email.

3. An outgoing TLD manager reflects on the past and future of "new" domains - Francesco Cetraro gives an honest take on the state of new top level domains.

4. What domains HP Enterprise and other end users bought last week - One of my weekly end user domain sales columns was quite popular last month.

5. How selling cheap domains ruins your TLD for all users - Top level domain operators that sell domains for cheap risk ruining their reputation...leading to legitimate users abandoning the extension.

Be sure to listen to last month's podcasts as well:

Talking domains with Kevin Murphy (#133)

Making money with brandable domains (#132)

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times (Andrew Rosener) (#131) Naming a Business (#130)

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