.Cat Raid and Lawsuit are Top News

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It's not often that I get to write about police raids while covering the domain business. September was an exception as the office of the .cat domain name registry in Catalonia was raided as part of Spain's crackdown on an independence referendum.

Other top news included a lawsuit between two of the largest domain name registrars. Here's a look at the top five stories on DNW, ranked by number of views.

1. Spanish police raid .Cat domain name registry offices - A police raid of the .cat offices was really just the start of a crackdown on an independence referendum.

2. Namecheap sues Enom and Tucows, demands transfer of 4 million domains - Namecheap says Tucows is dragging its feet on transferring domain names through the easiest method. Tucows has responded.

3. Amy Schumer files cybersquatting complaint against GoDaddy's NameFind - The popular comedian wants amy-schumer.com. Her official website is AmySchumer.com.

4. Instagram registers Doxagram domain names in wake of data breach - Instagram registered a bunch of names related to a hacker group after its data was stolen.

5. My first domain name sale through DomainAgents - I sold a domain through DomainAgents for the first time. Interestingly, it wasn't one I listed with the service.

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#152 - GDPR is going to affect everyone in the domain name business. Here's how.

#151 - Sedo Chief Sales Officer Matthias Meyer-Schönherr discusses sales trends including .ai and .io domain names.