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Next month is going to be weird. I look forward to January each year because I get to connect with domain industry colleagues at NamesCon. But next month's event won't be in person because of the pandemic. I miss y'all, and hope we get to see each other again In Real Life sometime in 2021.

Scroll down to see which five stories got the most traffic at Domain Name Wire last month, and check out DNW's recent podcasts.

Happy holidays!

-Andrew

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Here are the top stories on DNW last month, as ranked by pageviews:

1. GoDaddy (all of it) went down - GoDaddy had a major outage on November 17, taking down the GoDaddy site and customer sites. The customer site outage last for many hours. GoDaddy said it was due to a technical error and not a security issue.

2. Donuts is acquiring Afilias - In the latest blockbuster consolidation move, top level domain company Donuts said it is acquiring Afilias.

3. Cooper's Hawk restaurant chain tries reverse domain name hijacking - The company could have acquired the domain for only $5,000 many years ago but apparently never followed through with payment.

4. Flipkart among end user domain buyers at GoDaddy - GoDaddy released its latest batch of domain sales. Indian e-commerce giant Flipkart spent $75,000 on one of the domains.

5. GoDaddy launches GoDaddy Corporate Domains for large brands - GoDaddy has rebranded Brandsight and is courting customers by promising escalation of issues related to problematic domains registered at GoDaddy.

Miss a podcast? Listen now:

#310 - Booking .com and cybersquatting (listen)

#311 - Side Hustles with Nick Loper (listen)

#312 - Domain Investing with Adam Strong (listen)

#313 - New TLD marketing with Mina Neuberg (listen)

#314 - Investing in new TLDs with Oswin (listen)

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Thanks for reading,
Andrew