CircleID's Top 10 Posts of 2016

The new year is upon us and it's time for our annual look at CircleID's most popular posts of the past year and highlighting those that received the most attention. Congratulations to all the 2016 participants and best wishes to all in the new year.

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

Top 10 Featured Blogs from the community in 2016:

#1		How .MUSIC Will Go Mainstream and Benefit ICANN's New gTLD Program Constantine Roussos \| Jan 06, 2016 Viewed 39,642 times
#2		Examining IPv6 Performance - Revisited Geoff Huston \| Aug 19, 2016 Viewed 18,134 times
#3		Cybersquatting & Banking: How Financial Services Industry Can Protect Itself Online (Free Webinar) Doug Isenberg \| May 02, 2016 Viewed 15,333 times
#4		We Need You: Industry Collaboration to Improve Registration Data Services Scott Hollenbeck \| May 24, 2016 Viewed 14,751 times
#5		Usage Trumps Registrations: Why Past TLDs Failed and Why Many Will Follow in Their Path Colin Campbell \| Apr 09, 2016 Viewed 14,529 times
#6		ICANN Fails Consumers (Again) Garth Bruen \| Apr 15, 2016 Viewed 14,390 times
#7		Canon Takes Its .brand to the World, Moves Its Global Site to .CANON Tony Kirsch \| May 18, 2016 Viewed 14,248 times
#8		Internet Governance Outlook 2016: Cooperation & Confrontation Wolfgang Kleinwächter \| Jan 11, 2016 Viewed 14,222 times
#9		Internet Stewardship Transition Critical to Internet's Future Daniel A. Sepulveda \| Sep 16, 2016 Viewed 13,347 times
#10		The Future of Domain Name Dispute Policies: The Journey Begins Doug Isenberg \| Apr 27, 2016 Viewed 12,859 times

Top 10 News in 2016:

#1		IPv6 Now Dominant Protocol for Traffic Among Major US Mobile Providers Aug 21, 2016 Viewed 16,228 times
#2		Sweden Makes its TLD Zone File Publicly Available May 16, 2016 Viewed 13,006 times
#3		Internet Governance Forum Puts the Spotlight on Trade Agreements Dec 09, 2016 Viewed 11,462 times
#4		Hong Kong Billionaire Richard Li Becomes First Person to Own a TLD Matching His Name May 12, 2016 Viewed 10,466 times
#5		WordPress Announces New .BLOG TLD, to be Available This Year May 12, 2016 Viewed 9,686 times
#6		Next Round of New TLDs May Not Happen Until 2020, Says ICANN May 05, 2016 Viewed 8,399 times
#7		PirateBay Domains to Be Handed over to the State, Swedish Court Rules May 14, 2016 Viewed 8,052 times
#8		Series of New African TLDs Fail to Go Live, Get Termination Notice from ICANN May 11, 2016 Viewed 7,881 times
#9		Google Releases 'Noto', Free Font Covering Every Language and Every Character on the Web Oct 09, 2016 Viewed 7,057 times
#10		Cisco Issues Hight Alert on IPv6 Vulnerability, Says It Affects Both Cisco and Other Products Jun 03, 2016 Viewed 6,467 times

Top 10 Industry News in 2016 (sponsored posts):

#1		Move Beyond Defensive Domain Name Registrations, Towards Strategic Thinking Boston Ivy \| May 17, 2016 Viewed 15,807 times
#2		Verisign Launches New gTLDs for the Korean Market, .닷컴 and .닷넷 Verisign \| May 16, 2016 Viewed 12,915 times
#3		Meet Boston Ivy, Home to Some of the Most Specialized TLDs in the Financial Services Sector Boston Ivy \| May 24, 2016 Viewed 12,397 times
#4		Verisign Opens Landrush Program Period for .コム Domain Names Verisign \| May 16, 2016 Viewed 11,981 times
#5		New .PROMO Domain Sunrise Period Begins Today Afilias \| Apr 14, 2016 Viewed 11,831 times
#6		Domain Management Handbook from MarkMonitor MarkMonitor \| May 10, 2016 Viewed 11,810 times
#7		Afilias Announces Relaunch of .GREEN TLD Afilias \| Apr 22, 2016 Viewed 11,338 times
#8		New TLD .STORE Crosses 500+ Sunrise Applications Radix \| May 31, 2016 Viewed 10,095 times
#9		Minds + Machines Group Announces Outsourcing Agreements, Web Address Change Minds + Machines \| Apr 08, 2016 Viewed 9,943 times
#10		Is Your TLD Threat Mitigation Strategy up to Scratch? Neustar \| May 17, 2016 Viewed 9,411 times