Florida domainer wins the $590 million Powerball, plans mass domain acquisitions!
When Samuel Haggis walked into a Zephyrhills Publix early last week, little did he know that his life was about to change. The Floridian domainer and father of two young boys, came forward earlier today to claim the massive $590.5 million Powerball jackpot – the largest Powerball jackpot win in history. Accompanied by wife Tamela [...]
Copyright © 2013 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.You snooze, you lose: HMI .com sold for five figures
Domain investor and pilot extraordinaire, Andy Booth, was up late partying this Saturday morning; then he apparently noticed the quality domain name HMI.com being offered for sale with a BIN price. Despite receiving offers as high as $15,000, the Dutch seller held off selling, opting instead to post a buy it now price at a [...]
Copyright © 2013 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Dunkin Donuts to offer free domains
Coffee and donuts shop, Dunkin Donuts, is expanding its deliciousness into new, untapped territory: domain names. Often challenged by supposedly hip and pseudo-upscale coffee shops, such as Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts is on the rise in large metropolitan areas and trucker stops alike. “We heard there is a company out there called ‘Donuts’ that are supposed [...]
Copyright © 2013 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Mosquitno abuzz with failure to sting .com in UDRP
Mosquitno is a family-run business based in Kansas City, Missouri, that formed in 2009. That same year they rolled out a range of “all-natural mosquito repellent bracelets” and applied for a trademark in 2010, which was granted in 2012. They also failed to secure Mosquitno.com as it had been registered in 2005, four years prior [...]
Copyright © 2013 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Pinup.com: A few thousand short of $90,000 on Flippa
The top tier domain name, PinUp.com, was put up for sale on Flippa – the smart bidder’s marketplace for buying and selling domains and web sites. Wayne, its lucky owner, has sold several premium domain names on Flippa for thousands of dollars. Such sales include Organ.com for $41,000, OAR.com for $69,000 and WeddingVows.com for $60,000. [...]
Copyright © 2013 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Waltz darling! Malcolm McLaren’s .com is a posthumous UDRP drama
Malcolm McLaren thrived in the 1970′s as a creative performer, clothes designer and was famous for managing the punk rock band, the Sex Pistols. In the 1980′s, Malcolm McLaren continued to promote art and music with the intermixing of glitzy fashion performances; he was compared by many to Andy Warhol. Malcolm McLaren died from a [...]
Copyright © 2013 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Google skips version, with new Panda 3.0
Google Panda, the Damoclean algorithm to stop webmasters from rolling out nonsensical, keyword-laden advertising networks, is about to receive a sizable upgrade. Matt Cutts, head of Google’s anti-spam agency, stated: “Gone are the days that one could take a passage from Wikipedia and outsource the task of copy-spinning to Indian sweat-shops, and not get caught. [...]
Copyright © 2013 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Serbian domainer leaves monastery after seven years, returns to domaining
Goran Gogović spent seven whole years in isolation from earthly possessions, carnal pleasures and the Internet. The 29 year old Serb from Gduibostka Paresti was not in prison; after becoming a man of the cloth, he joined the Saint Atanas monastery in Vikyresti Plotz. “For seven year, I have no idea domain world change,” says [...]
Copyright © 2013 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Moms celebrated around the world all while the .com fails to deliver
Millions of mothers were celebrated around the world today, as Mother’s Day unfolded. As predicted, Moms.com, which was sold for a staggering $252,000 about three weeks ago, failed to present something worthy of what it stands for. In other words, in three weeks’ time no web site was set up, not even an ‘under construction‘ [...]
Copyright © 2013 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Uncle Sam is sad: Tax.info sells for peanuts on NameJet
Afilias has been peddling off its long-held generic .info gems, and although Wine.info sold for more than $13k today, Tax.info didn’t fare as well. The auction for Tax.info – a keyword with half as many results on Google as ‘death’ – was held at NameJet, like the rest of the Afilias one-worders. After 138 bidders [...]
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