Use them or lose them: New ICANN law effective soon
The news is huge and it’s creating bigger waves than Google or the Samoan tsunami: ICANN is about to announce a new rule related to how domain ownership is perceived.
It’s a known fact that domains are leased each year for a fee, and the maximum lease cannot exceed 10 years. This method loosely ensures that [...]
Thor Larseneng: The Swedish domain god
When he was just 6 years old, Thor Larseneng ran 8 miles from his home in Kruuka, in the middle of a snowstorm, found his little sister Helga and carried her back to safety. Today, the 6ft 4″ blond giant from Sweden continues to impress with his skills in women-carrying competitions, a dominant sport in [...]
Copyright © 2010 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Sedo to start charging domain owners for ad relevancy
Boston, Masachussetts – UPNI
Sedo, the world’s largest pay per click monetization provider for domain portfolios, has announced that it will start charging domain owners for ad relevancy on their parking pages.
Nicholas Shumellpfeifer, chief marketing executive of Sedo in Dusseldorf, Germany explained via the phone that Sedo had been planning to launch this new [...]
Customer data stolen from domain Registrar
Milpitas, California – UNN
A laptop containing several million records of a domain Registrar’s customer data has been stolen at a bakery in Seattle. The theft occurred early Tuesday morning, when Tuula Garimaldi, an intern at ProxyRegistrarForAnotherRegistrar LLC stopped at Marvin’s famous crispy bakery in downtown Seattle.
“I was picking up a couple of glazed apple danish [...]
Will .ocean Make a Splash? Sunrise Period Begins Friday.
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, (ICANN), has agreed to expand the ending words for websites to cover individuals and businesses that reside on water. Sunrise Period begins Friday, October 2nd.
“Our goal is to cover people who live in boats and floating restaurants.” As reported on their website. “This provides [...]
GoDaddy to donate domains to the poor kids of India
GoDaddy’s Bob Parsons is known for being an entrepreneurial genius, after launching the small domain registrar GoDaddy in the late 90’s. Today, GoDaddy.com is the biggest domain registrar in the world, with millions of domain names under their control.
Bob Parsons is now a multi-millionaire and spends a lot of his time traveling around the US [...]
Company Launches the Dinky Site
As hundreds of domainers rush to find an alternative to mini sites, a new company called DNKS, inc. opens its doors to their new service called the Dinky Site.
“The Dinky Site solves several problems at once.” Harry Bengaman, president of DNKS, inc. explains. “The costs of mini sites are outrageous. [...]
Google to buy Google for $58.5 billion dollars
Mountain View, California – Google News Network
It’s the ultimate triumph for Google; the online search engine giant, left without any competition in the virtual and online world has announced the acquisition of its own company.
Valued at over $58 billion dollars, Google will merge with itself, in a gigantic strategic move to fully dominate the entire [...]
Half-crazy domainer launches world’s first domain time machine
Meet Frank Lickings, a 5 foot 3″ unassuming guy from Cromwell, Pennsylvania. Frank spent the better half of his 20’s registering useless domain names, such as DeepSpace10.com, FranksFamousFriends.net and other such “gems”. His biggest achievement has been the registration of DomainersClubs.tel
Frank’s dad passed away in the 1970’s after a failed experiment with radioactive plutonium sent [...]
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Domain thief arrested after pushing .tel domains
Belfast, Ireland – TPS News
Police have arrested notorious domain thief Patrick Daniel O’Hullahan, also known as “The TLDster” in a raid of a local pub in east Belfast. The domain thief is being held on a number of charges, including possession of stolen domain names, extortion and public exhibition.
“We were on this lad for a [...]
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