Domain fights: Chaos in New York City during launch of .NYC
Several violent fights erupted in New York City during the official launch of the dot .NYC gTLD. Thousands of potential registrants of .NYC domains lined up overnight outside of the dot .NYC Registry offices in downtown Manhattan; chaos ensued. “I came to claim my Greek deli name domain and have been waiting since 4am […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Escrow.com fixes glitch related to gTLD email compatibility
Escrow.com has confirmed the fix of a strange glitch that affected the use of gTLD email addresses. As we discovered late last week, when the email address of the parties was based on a new gTLD domain, for example dot .email, the escrow would not initiate. It’s a good thing seeing that there is email […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Oops! Can’t start Escrow if your buyer’s email is on a new gTLD
The expansion of the Internet name lanes is like the Y2k bug at times: gTLD domains introduce challenges daily to functions where regular TLDs do just fine. An apparent glitch that we found yesterday, affects the API between Domain Name Sales and Escrow.com, and it’s something that produced an hour of “fun” attempting to complete […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Statoil strike #2: What was the registrant of this dot .email gTLD domain thinking?
Two weeks ago, we covered the first recorded UDRP for a dot .Company domain name; Statoil, a Norwegian oil company undertook the task of protecting its trademark. In this case, the same company filed a UDRP against the registrant of the domain name, Statoil.email. The Respondent, Giovanni Laporta of UK, asserted that the domain is […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Statoil: Here comes the first dot .Company UDRP and a story about the environment
Recently we’re witnessing an increase in the number of UDRP cases filed against new gTLD domains; yesterday it was about a dot .Menu domain and this one is about a dot .Company. The Complainant is Statoil ASA of Stavanger, Norway and they filed a UDRP for the domain name Statoil.company; the Respondent is Scandinavian Health […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Converted domainer: I think it’s the end of the .com as we know it
Charlie Jackson is your average Joe domainer; the Colorado father of two operates a local medical hemp farm, while delving in domains in his spare time. “When I started domaining so many years ago in 2007, the dot com was king and nothing else mattered,” says Jackson. “Recently, after seeing how much traction these gTLDs […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Rick Schwartz hints of .TRAFFIC gTLD on ‘cabana’ day
With TRAFFIC Las Vegas just a day away, many domainers took advantage of the great weather on Memorial Day to arrive in Vegas a day early. Sporting shorts, flip flops and ‘wife beater‘ shirts, domainers let loose and sipped piña coladas at the shady cabanas, by the beautiful Bellagio pool. After a few drinks and […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Dumb domains: Silly domain name generator shows the funny side of gTLDs
Let’s face it, not all keyword+gTLD domain names are created equal. Some are weird, strange, odd – or outright ludicrous. A new online tool residing at Dumb.domains takes those seemingly innocent keywords, combines them with live gTLDs, and spits out a combination that looks and sounds like the classic “clownpenis.fart” skit. You can always buy […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Big Sexy Stables dot horse: The video that cannot be unseen
Minds + Machines is getting ready to roll out its dot .Horse top level domains on July 1st – that’s when general availability begins. If you are a trademark holder in anything that would cause mass confusion when suffixed by “.horse”, then better kick those spurs back as Sunrise is ongoing, until June 15th. The […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Numbers occasionally lie: Registration numbers alone can’t determine success of gTLDs
The old statement “numbers don’t lie“, is often used to determine the bias of an argument. While this is true in many cases, numbers aren’t the only means of determining the success of something. In an article about the new TLDs (gTLDs), Adrian Kinderis, CEO of ARI Registry Services, states: “Early numbers mean nothing. The […]
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