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CircleID’s Top Ten Posts of 2012

By CircleID Reporter
January 10, 2013 Views: 18,776 Add Comment

Here are the top ten most popular news, blogs, and industry updates featured on CircleID during 2012 based on the overall readership of the posts for the past 12 months. Congratulations to all the participants whose posts reached top readership and best wishes to the entire community for 2013.

Top Ten Featured Blogs from the community in 2012:

#1		DNS Changerby Paul Vixie \| Mar 27, 2012 \| Viewed 66,094 times
#2		Trademarking .generics - the .bank Fiasco!by Konstantinos Komaitis \| Jan 18, 2012 \| Viewed 17,124 times
#3		Refusing REFUSEDby Paul Vixie \| Jan 11, 2012 \| Viewed 11,860 times
#4		MegaBust’s MegaQuestions Cloud the Net’s Futureby Philip S Corwin \| Feb 13, 2012 \| Viewed 10,430 times
#5		Anonymous Plans to Go After DNS Root Servers. What Will Be the US’s Response?by Terry Zink \| Feb 15, 2012 \| Viewed 9,813 times
#6		Why the Dot Com Kingdom Will Continue to Rule Post New gTLDsby Naseem Javed \| Jul 24, 2012 \| Viewed 9,771 times
#7		Fake Bank Site, Fake Registrarby Garth Bruen \| Mar 27, 2012 \| Viewed 8,977 times
#8		Why Vint Cerf is Wrongby Wout de Natris \| Nov 21, 2012 \| Viewed 8,891 times
#9		Internet Governance and the Public Interestby Paul Diaz \| Mar 19, 2012 \| Viewed 8,384 times
#10		IPv6 Subnetting - The Paradigm Shiftby Chris Grundemann \| Jul 19, 2012 \| Viewed 8,380 times

Top 10 News in 2012:

#1		ISPs Are Not Broadcasters, Says Supreme Court of CanadaFeb 10, 2012 \| Viewed 35,128 times
#2		Iran Blocks HTTPS, 30 Million Reported Losing Email AccessFeb 11, 2012 \| Viewed 11,016 times
#3		Vint Cerf: The Launch of a New Larger InternetJun 05, 2012 \| Viewed 8,257 times
#4		The Digital Marketing & gTLD Strategy Congress Announces Keynote, Speakers, Initial PartnershipsJan 08, 2013 \| Viewed 7,841 times
#5		Akamai Reports 460 Times Increase in IPv6 Requests Over Its Platform Since Last YearOct 22, 2012 \| Viewed 6,976 times
#6		Saudi Arabia Objects to Certain Proposed New gTLD Strings Such as .Gay and .WineAug 15, 2012 \| Viewed 6,764 times
#7		Department of Commerce Cancels IANA Contract RFPMar 09, 2012 \| Viewed 6,343 times
#8		SPECIAL: Updates from the ICANN Meetings in TorontoOct 17, 2012 \| Viewed 5,802 times
#9		Most U.S. Agencies Expected to Miss IPv6 DeadlineSep 28, 2012 \| Viewed 5,411 times
#10		Websites Go Dark Protesting SOPA and PIPA, Senators Change CourseJan 18, 2012 \| Viewed 5,299 times

Top 10 Industry News in 2012 (sponsored posts):

#1		MarkMonitor Offers New gTLD Application Databaseby MarkMonitor \| Jun 15, 2012 \| Viewed 6,992 times
#2		DotConnectAfrica Participates in ICANN-45 Toronto, Unveils New IBCA Initiative at ICANN Public Forumby DotConnectAfrica \| Oct 23, 2012 \| Viewed 6,822 times
#3		ICANN 45: New gTLDs Not Far Away Nowby Afilias \| Oct 25, 2012 \| Viewed 5,676 times
#4		MarkMonitor to Exhibit at Internet Tech Policy Exhibition and Reception to be Held on Capitol Hillby MarkMonitor \| Jan 24, 2012 \| Viewed 5,355 times
#5		CentralNic and REG.RU Confirm Strategic Partnershipby CentralNic \| Jul 30, 2012 \| Viewed 5,244 times
#6		MarkMonitor Fraud Intelligence Report, Q4 2011by MarkMonitor \| Feb 17, 2012 \| Viewed 5,037 times
#7		Afilias Participates in Global Test of Multilingual IDN Emailby Afilias \| Jun 28, 2012 \| Viewed 4,857 times
#8		Implementing a Cyber-Security Code of Conduct: Real-Life Lessons From Australia (Webinar)by Nominum \| Apr 30, 2012 \| Viewed 4,665 times
#9		Top-Level Domain Survey Findings Not Surprising, But Still Concerningby MarkMonitor \| Sep 05, 2012 \| Viewed 4,509 times
#10		Public Interest Registry Releases Results of Bi-Annual Domain Name Reportby PIR \| Aug 14, 2012 \| Viewed 4,462 times

Additionally, you can also check the leaderboards for CircleID’s overall top 100 community and industry participants.

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