Rick Schwartz: No more Italian domains for me!
Domain King, Rick Schwartz, made headlines back in November of 2011, after he spent $588 to acquire the domain name MarioMonti.com from BuyDomains. The interim prime minister of Italy, is stepping down – and Italians are heading to elections – thus making Rick’s investment rather obsolete. “Porca miseria!” exclaimed Rick Schwartz, gesturing over a large […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Search.xxx publishes results for first week of operation
An announcement by the ICM Registry CEO, Stuart Lawley, about the traffic results and other stats of Search.xxx – the adult search engine: “We are delighted with the first weeks activity of over 1.2 million uniques and almost 8 million page-views. Traffic is settling down to a more predictable pattern as expected after the initial […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.ICM Registry: More than 100,000 uniques for Search.xxx
The ICM Registry – managers of the .XXX gTLD – announced that their newest project, the adult search engine Search.xxx has passed a double milestone: “Search.xxx is thrilled to announce that we just passed 100K unique visitors and 500K searches since we launched!” The Search.xxx success is almost certain, given the mixed nature of regular […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Vatican.xxx – The Catholic Search engine to go live
The Vatican – or Holy See as it’s known to the faithful – is launching its own religious search engine, to combat promiscuity and online pornography. Launching from Vatican.xxx, the upcoming portal will address the issues of carnal pleasure and sins of the flesh. “It is important that Christians understand the moral twists that one […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Sergei Putanov: Cheese and crackers!
For the first time in a decade, the legendary Russian billionaire domain investor, Sergei Putanov, acknowledged that there is a financial crisis in the domain industry. “Had meeting with chief financial officer increase profit and thing are not good,” said Sergei Putanov to our correspondent, Nikolai Domienenko. “Can’t eat caviar, or Canadian lobster, what do, […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Operation X: HOT Dog gets 6,000+ plays from DomainGang
Time for a quick editorial! 😀 After perusing some traffic stats, it seems that one of the funny promotional videos produced by the ICM Registry has been linked to from us more than 18,000 times on Vimeo, with more than 6,000 plays from DomainGang! All these links are due to adult content searches from apparently […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.ICM Registry doubles the ‘X’s to all registrations made today!
ICM Registry – the folks behind .XXX domains and creative adult commercials – don’t want to rest on their laurels too long. Having already applied for .sex, .adult and .porn, the ICM Registry offers a domain registration special, good for the day. “Several of our more demanding customers thought that .XXX was not enough, or […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.GoDaddy raises prices by $1 after Danica Patrick’s Daytona 500 fiasco
GoDaddy is raising their domain registration prices by $1 – effective immediately – to compensate for the huge financial loss sustained during the Daytona 500 race. “Unfortunately, Danica Patrick totaled three custom-made GoDaddy cars and at a price of $1.8 million a piece this is getting expensive”, said the founder Bob Parsons, en route to […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.GoDaddy founder Bob Parsons angry about Daytona 500 postponement
GoDaddy founder and Daytona 500 team sponsor, Bob Parsons, is upset over the race’s postponement. GoDaddy sweetheart, Danica Patrick, crashed the GoDaddy car in a wall, during preliminary races last Thursday. “Gosh darn it, this is absolutely preposterous, that God would not grant Danica Patrick her much-deserved win at Daytona 500”, said a livid Bob […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Sergei Putanov: Why I invested $69 million for A Mile High Club .com
Two days ago we broke the news of the biggest domain sale ever – the acquisition of the domain name AMileHighClub.com by Russian billionaire domain investor, Sergei Putanov, for $69 million dollars. In an interview granted to our correspondent in Ekaterinburg, Russia, Sergei Putanov describes his motives for this monumental domain investment and talks about […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.More .XXX please – We’re British!
A new marketing campaign for .XXX domains by the ICM Registry has been unveiled in the UK. According to the campaign’s creators, M&C Saatchi London: […] have created a new tongue-in-cheek campaign to promote .XXX – the high level adult domain. Targeting adults the ads are due to go live on video screens in bars […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Flippa: Starting 2012 with yet another Trademark Violation listing
It’s the new year and it’s ridiculous that Flippa.com – the Australian domain auction platform – continues to allow obvious trademark violations on its marketplace. An example can be found here. Famous marks, like Apple’s iPhone are protected aggressively; Flippa maintains that unless the trademark holder complains, they won’t do anything. The problem is, once […]
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