Igloo reveals numerous premium domain sales in latest announcement
Premium domain brokers Igloo announced via a press release the sale of numerous top tier domains, but did not disclose any prices. Citing privacy agreements signed between Igloo and the parties involved, CEO Tessa Holcomb revealed that “Igloo’s Domain Advisors have closed upwards of $120 million dollars in domain name transactions and is pleased to […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.ICANN restores access to improved CZDS panel
ICANN has restored access to its Centralized Zone Data Service (CZDS) improving or adding features. The system is used for monitoring the zone files across TLDs and gTLDs: As previously communicated, ICANN has deployed several updates to the CZDS today. The updates haves been successfully completed and CZDS is ready for your use again. The […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.ICANN posts annual report on payments to its directors
ICANN has published its annual report for the Fiscal Year 2014, covering the expense reimbursements and other payments made to its directors between July 1st, 2013 and June 30th, 2014: During FY14, there were seven face-to-face meetings for Board members, including four regular ICANN Meetings (Durban in July 2013, Buenos Aires in November 2013, Sinagapore […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Halloween special domain Discount Coupon from Minds+Machines!
The folks over at Minds+Machines are losing their heads for Halloween! 😀 Minds+Machines is offering a special Halloween discount coupon today – the offer is good until midnight tonight, Pacific US Time. The discount coupon takes 25% off for all domain registrations for the following gTLDs: .Beer .Cooking .Country .Fishing .Horse .Rodeo .Surf .Vodka
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.WIPO: Infotrax.com was denied transfer in UDRP but no RDNH finding
Citing first use of the mark “InfoTrax” in 1999, InfoTrax Systems waited 13 years to pursuit a trademark. When the mark was registered with the USPTO in 2013, the company decided to go after InfoTrax.com – a domain registered in 1995 – by filing a UDRP at the WIPO. Despite having a registered trademark for […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Namecheap to offer web hosting for $10 bucks per year and cPanel
After going off on a tirade on Facebook about not getting any love or media coverage from domain bloggers, domain registrar Namecheap announced the availability of discounted web hosting services. The price: a paltry $10 annually, or less than the average cost of a dot .com registration. There are several tiers of web hosting, however, […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.TRAFFIC 2014 in full blast – First Halloween party pics emerge!
TRAFFIC parties are legendary, and TRAFFIC 2014 in Miami marks the 10th anniversary of the original domain conference founded by Rick Schwartz. With dozens of costumed participants, the TRAFFIC Halloween party proved to be worthy of its reputation. All the big cheese domainers were there, including dozens more that attended for the first time. The […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.IBM takes the .Buzz domain via UDRP
Despite the new URS process that allows for trademark holders, particularly those of famous marks, to disable an offending gTLD domain, IBM took the UDRP route. In a case filed at the WIPO against the domain IBM.buzz, the Complainant was International Business Machines Corporation. The UDRP was filed 4 months after the domain IBM.buzz was […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.The FTC issues hefty fine to the manager of 18 dating sites for ‘fake profiles’
The Federal Trade Commission has issued a fine to the British dating services company JDI Dating, for using computer generated user profiles, referred to as “virtual cupids”. These fake profiles were used as a bait, tricking users into upgrading their own accounts to paid memberships. Upon creating their profile, the users would receive messages from […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.UDRP for TheAA.email adds to the Yoyo pile
Another day, another UDRP for Yoyo Email, Ltd. – a UK corporation that has had a record number of UDRP cases filed against it this year. The reason: registrations of corporate names, brands and trademarks in the dot .Email gTLD, a practice that Yoyo Email refers to as a “business model”, asserting that it has […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Cyber-catcall: Shoshana B. Roberts missed out on the dot .com
We’ve said it before: if you plan to be part of a viral campaign, make sure you already own your name as a dot .com, maybe even a variation of it. Shoshana B. Roberts, a New York based actress, made national news recently over her role as a naturally beautiful, casually dressed female walking in […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Real Estate agent does not want to be a dot .Realtor
In a brutally honest essay on the dot .Realtor availability, Real Estate agent, Teresa Boardman, states that she will stick to dot .com for now. “I think I’ll just stick with my .com domains. I can have domain names like StPaulRealEstateBlog.com and StPaulCondolife.com and StPaulPhotos.com and several others that don’t include my name, or the […]
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