And the Dot .Co battle begins!
A blip on the radar – that’s the title of a post by the Dot .Co Domain Registry – that begins thus: “Some in the domain industry (read: domainers) are up in arms about the recent announcement by Overstock.com that it would slow down its rebranding to O.co. Given the amount of speculation and commenting […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Domain and Domainer Hall of Fame
A lot of domainers would love to be in a hall of fame list, as long as they have solid achievements in the domain industry. Incidentally, two obvious variants of the elite club domain URL are owned by two inductees to the Domain Hall of Fame sponsored by TRAFFIC. Domain investor and popular domainer blogger, […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.It’s Politics no more for DNForum
Popular domain discussion forum, DNForum.com owner Adam Dicker has closed down the forum’s Politics section. The section existed for a long time, polarizing domainers into liberals and conservatives; often times the intensity of commentary led to heated discussions with rude words and insults flying around. Adam’s statement: “Due to the immature behaviour of a group […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Russian domain mogul Sergei Putanov launches ‘Meet Me in Russia’ venture
Prolific domain investor, Sergei Putanov – the man behind the dot .communism gTLD initiative – is about to shock the world yet again. Known for his investments in large real estate projects, Sergei Putanov is now backing an escort web site site for millionaires. Nikolai Domienenko, our Moscow correspondent, had a short interview over the […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Time for Newt: Gingrich launches new web site
Democrats scorn and Republicans rejoice: Presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich launched a new web site yesterday, aptly named Time for Newt. The web site contains very little info about Newt Gingrich and makes a bold statement: “Who says we have to compromise on the candidates we elect? The liberal media and Washington elite want to choose […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Mario Monti dot com: Gone with Berlusconi
The domain name in dot com of the new interim prime minister of Italy, Mario Monti, is gone for several years now. BuyDomains owns MarioMonti.com and it was registered in 2005 according to the DomainTools WHOIS tool. The dot net was registered as soon as speculation over the name of the replacement of scandalous Italian […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Provident Link: When gTLDs go Down Under
The upcoming opening by ICANN of the TLD namespace to include generic words, has many drooling with anticipation. In Australia and New Zealand, Provident Link is a consulting company currently assisting with the creation of gTLDs in this far end of the South Pacific: “Provident Link is an Australian owned and operated Company. We are […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.42195.es – You don’t have to own a .com to top Google
With more than 3 million Google results, the number “42195” is not an ordinary number. For those of you not into the metric system, 42195 represents the number of meters in a marathon. Around the world, when the term “26.2k” isn’t used with reference to the number of miles in the distance of a marathon, […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.The University of Iowa athletics department ‘invests’ in the .XXX TLD
The athletics department of the University of Iowa is working with the ICM Registry, sponsors of the .XXX TLD, to secure and acquire several variations of its name. However, aside from the athletics department, the University of Iowa chose not to purchase any new domains because there’s a real proliferation of TLDs, which would become […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Father Domainicus: Meet me at the House of the Domain Lord
Greetings and salutations, brothers and sisters in domaining. This is Father Domainicus, with a special Saturday message. When I hear about how successful domainers achieve large sales, turning the seed of their investment into a sizable sum, I recall the words of the bible, in particular verse 11:9 in the book of Jehovah to the […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos takes over Twitter, Flickr, YouTube
An announcement made late yesterday by the office of the Greek prime minister, revealed that the newly appointed interim PM, Lucas Papademos “inherits” the keys to virtual accounts as well. Prior to that, the Twitter profile displayed the outgoing Greek PM, George Papandreou. The message on Twitter said: “The accounts of the Prime Minister at […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.After Wales, Scotland considers registering localized gTLD
A few days ago we wrote how Nominet, the .uk registry is polling the interest of the Welsh government in the UK. The idea is to create a Welsh TLD – or .Cymru in the Welsh language. It seems now that Scotland is considering showing its regional pride by requesting .Scot as a TLD. The […]
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