Royale Wedding: Two Domainers tie the knot
Prince William and Kate Middleton might now be husband and wife, having participated in the ceremony at Westminster Abbey, but a much bigger wedding is now rocking the domain world. Often cited for their online commitment to eachother, their love and appreciation of developing, parking and flipping domain names, Willie ‘Chops’ Royale and Kathryn ‘Sweet’ [...]
Copyright © 2013 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Frank Schilling’s 18 “Trademark Domains” revealed
There is no doubt that when it comes down to managing gigantic domain portfolios, uber-domainer Frank Schilling plays the game right. With more than 240,000 domains according to DomainTools, it’s amazing how a decade of amassing and monetizing some real gems – such as PotatoSalad.com or InvinsibleMonkey.com – has resulted in very little legal trouble. [...]
Copyright © 2013 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Three Letter .com sold for $159 – Is it possible?
These days, three letter .com domains – or LLL .com for short – form part of the domainer “hard currency”. Prices fluctuate not only based on age, letter quality and traffic, but also by some other factors that seem to not make sense at all. Three letter .com domains nowadays range from $4,000 to mid [...]
Copyright © 2013 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Fukushima disaster was predicted in 1988 in Manga Comic book!
An amazing story is unveiling in Japan – courtesy of Spanish newspaper El Pais. According to the newspaper, Ryoko Yamagishi – a Japanese female manga artist – foretold the story of a nuclear accident in Fukushima in her 1988 comic book, “Phaethon”. Yamagishi, a pioneer of manga, born in 1947, explained in an email he [...]
Copyright © 2013 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Death, Destruction and Domains – 25 years later
Until 25 years ago, most rural residents of Europe could walk onto any green pasture and set up a picnic tablecloth on the ground. Many, like my grandma, would locate spots close to the forest where mushrooms and spinach leaves were abundant and they would spend part of their country excursion to collect them for [...]
Copyright © 2013 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Extortion or Stupidity? Squatter tries to sell TM domain on DNForum
It’s one of these moments that make seasoned domainers shake their heads in amazement. We’ve all made mistakes: registered domains that approximate or match trademarks. But to try and sell one such blatant violation to the trademark owner, that really requires some balls. DNForum owner, Adam Dicker, has established use of the mark through several [...]
Copyright © 2013 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Update: Marchex gets our wakeup call – updates RoyalWedding.com
This is really something we’re proud of, as any news-reporting site we can’t but toot our own horn from time to time. Domain portfolio giant, Marchex, has listened to our criticism about the (ab)use of the ultra-premium domain RoyalWedding.com Less than 10 days ago, we wrote about how Marchex used the worst landing page ever [...]
Copyright © 2013 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Daryl says: Damn it, I was wrong !
Well damn, damn, damn, domainers! It’s one of these days that I will admit it, beer in hand: I was damn wrong. Damn it! OK, so the other day I told you that I don’t give a damn about Apple’s iPhone, iPad and other iCrap devices tracking my every move. It seems that I should [...]
Copyright © 2013 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Woe is me! Demand Media stock now lower than IPO
It’s a sad day for content farm giant, Demand Media: its stock has reached the lowest point yet, lower than its IPO price. The primary reason: confirmation by Experian Hitwise that eHow and other Demand Media web sites lost more than 40% of their Google-originating traffic since the beginning of the year – all thanks [...]
Copyright © 2013 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.10 Reasons why Easter is bad for Domaining
It’s true: holidays are bad for business. When you think that you’ll relax, take a break, eat, drink and get merry, you don’t consider the consequences. Easter is particularly bad for domaining, and here are the top 10 reasons why. We feast on a bunch of food that drains our blood from our brains – [...]
Copyright © 2013 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Google getting ready to Crush Groupon
Those of you that have been smoking the Groupon pipe – get ready for the shocking news. The mass-discount provider is often cited in numerous complaints about the long-term ability of its advertisers to offer products and services cheaply. War is on! Groupon announced yesterday that they have hired former Google executive, Margo Georgiadis, who [...]
Copyright © 2013 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Daryl says: I don’t give a Fudge if Apple tracks me down!
What’s up domainers? Nothing much happening here. In fact, I was playing a game of Angry Birds on my Apple iPhone when I read the news about Apple tracking people through their smart phones. I immediately put my beer down and closed the windows just in case the Google van was driving around. You know, [...]
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