VIDEO: Sweet and oh so Sexy Domain Commercial!

Posted by DomainGang on August 31, 2011, at 2:17 pm

The GR.com Registry released a new video promoting the GR.com domains that features a beautiful and talented singer that is guaranteed to make your heart melt 😀 Afterwards, you can learn more about GR.com domains by visiting GR.com

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A double trademark violation with three tees?

Posted by DomainGang on August 31, 2011, at 1:51 pm

It sounds like a crossword puzzle: “double trademark violation with three tees.” All this in a domain that consists of the brands of two giant telecom names, registered since 2009. It’s amazing that such a trademark violation beast is allowed to be kept without a challenge at the WIPO. Sad but true, ATTTMOBILE.com is parked […]

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Rick Schwartz hints about Rick.tv forgetting that .com is king

Posted by DomainGang on August 31, 2011, at 1:12 pm

Rick Schwartz gives an extensive interview today, over at Domain Sherpa. In Rick’s own words, if you “have 98 minutes to waste” then by all means you should do so. The interview was apparently shot over Skype, with the Domain King dishing it out about everything and anything. At his own blog, RicksBlog.com Rick Schwartz […]

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Anti-4D domainer reported to the Police; domain sales to continue as usual

Posted by DomainGang on August 30, 2011, at 5:18 pm

A persistent domain blog commentator who constantly trashed the sales of 4D domains has been identified and reported to the police, according to Kirk Badglass, the domain blog’s owner. “Time and again, this twerp would trash my premium 4D domain sales, talking about my professional choices”, said Kirk Badglass, an established domain investor from Austin, […]

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Once a week, GoDaddy gets spoofed

Posted by DomainGang on August 30, 2011, at 4:15 pm

It’s domainer beware: there’s yet another GoDaddy spoof email in the wild; this one appears to be coming from godidiaddy.com The domain godidiaddy.com was just registered today, at Yahoo, according to DomainTools – as it’s the case with the most new spoofed registrations lately. Remember: avoid clicking on any email links, always visit the domain […]

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Life is hard

Posted by DomainGang on August 30, 2011, at 1:05 pm

August is by far the slowest month of the year. It’s the month before various domain conferences, gatherings and secret meetings. It’s the month when all one reads is about listings of domain sales instead of juicy content. It’s also the month when Lucius and the DG crew went on some much needed vacations, on […]

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Father Domainicus: Investment for 2012 and beyond – The Sand Dollar

Posted by DomainGang on August 28, 2011, at 9:26 pm

My dear friends and foes in domaining – this is Father Domainicus, and as every Sunday for the past several years I turn to you about important things in my late sermon. In case you missed the news, brother domainer Frank Schilling spent money investing in the sinful new TLD, the triple .xxx As with […]

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Michael Gilmour’s blog attacked by DDoS – Day 2

Posted by DomainGang on August 26, 2011, at 2:42 pm

ParkLogic – the brainchild of Australian domain entrepreneur Michael Gilmour – is up today, unlike his personal blog at http://whizzbangsblog.com As Michael explained yesterday at his blog, ParkLogic has been under a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that forced him to temporarily switch the corporate web site off in order to inform everyone about […]

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Strange coincidence: Steve Jobs resigns right before a major Linux event

Posted by DomainGang on August 26, 2011, at 12:05 am

Today marks the 20th anniversary of Linux, the brainchild of Linus Torvalds who announced the availability of a very basic Linux kernel on August 25, 1991. The announcement was made on comp.os.minix – a Usenet newsgroup. Those were the days before the world wide web existed. ” I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a […]

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ParkLogic.com gets hammered by distributed denial of service attack

Posted by DomainGang on August 25, 2011, at 11:25 pm

It seems that ParkLogic.com is currently down. The domain monetization service, provided by ParkLogic and Australian domain entrepreneur Michael Gilmour is being involved in a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS). Park Logic recently announced a strategic partnership with DNForum, according to this press release. Michael Gilmour is the first person we met and conversed […]

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TweetQuake: Twitter moving faster than an earthquake

Posted by DomainGang on August 25, 2011, at 8:56 pm

Apparently, Twitter users reported the Virginia earthquake faster than the quake waves moved in an outwards radius. It shows how social media can outpace real time events. A heat map of the frequency of tweets mentioning the word “earthquake” in the 5 minutes after the Virginia earthquake on 08/23/2011. The locations are self-reported by Twitter […]

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Spammer re-emerges: Domain Notification: – This is your Final Notice of Domain Listing

Posted by DomainGang on August 25, 2011, at 7:59 pm

A few weeks ago we managed to shut down an infamous domain spammer that sent hundreds of thousands of emails with the headline: “Domain Notification: – This is your Final Notice of Domain Listing” It appears that the domain spammer has re-emerged from a different web host, as a cluster of new emails arrived earlier […]

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