Chinese miners rescued; Domain investments grossly devalued
A group of four Chinese miners have been rescued from a gypsum mine in eastern Shandong, China. After spending 36 days underground, the lucky Chinese miners were brought to surface. The first thing the rescued miners did, was to check the value of their “Chinese premium” domain investments, also known as “chips.” The shock was […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Domain crime : Chase Bank was targeted with phishing domain updateaccountonline.com
Last week we revealed how the account structure of Wells Fargo was used by cybercriminals who registered a similar domain. Now it’s the time of Chase Bank; cybercriminals registered the domain updateaccountonline.com and are using it in phishing emails. Falsifying the email so as to appear to arrive from Chase Bank, the registrant of the […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Dot .Bawston : gTLD application denied by ICANN
The registration of the dot .Bawston gTLD was refused by ICANN, after several months of lobbying among Internet technocrats led to no compromise. Aimed at the booming online businesses of Boston, Massachusetts, dot .Bawston came two points short of the fourteen it needed to be approved. “It is unfortunate that dot .Bawston, a premium gTLD, […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Uniregistry Market : Just weeks away, says Frank Schilling
The much-anticipated Uniregistry Market was swiftly demoed by founder, Frank Schilling, during NamesCon 2016. Despite a funny glitch during the demo, everything looks to be on track for its release. A note sent by Uniregistry along with this month’s PPC payments stated: “We are now just weeks away from the reveal of the Uniregistry Market. […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Chinese domain sales : Year of the (domain) Monkey
Looks like a rocky year ahead for the Chinese stock market; the Shanghai Stock Exchange is down 22.65% in 2016. It seems that one needs to have political connections in China, to achieve an IPO and enter the stock market. According to such data: “Of politically connected firms, 92 percent that falsified financial reports and […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Chinese domain sales : Cooking the books with ‘water injection’
The Shanghai Stock Exchange closed the week with gains compared to yesterday; still, the losses since the beginning of the year amount to 22.65%. On top of all that, doubts about the legitimacy of China’s growth numbers bring down the estimated GDP growth to as low as 4.3%. A 6% growth would have been considered […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Sedo : 20 two letter .com domains currently for sale!
Two letter (LL) .com domains have a special place among all short domain categories. Because all single letter .com domains were not – officially – allocated, LL .com domains became the Golden Chalice of domain investing. And why wouldn’t they be? With only 676 available combinations of letters, two letter .com domains have skyrocketed in […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Sedo : The most expensive LLL .com domain listing ever!
The prices of LLL .com domains have gone considerably up in recent months; being used by corporations and also acquired by investors, these beauties have consistently appreciated in value. Just how expensive can a three letter .com domain be? The price tag on JRA.com, as seen on this Sedo listing, is epic: $16,777,215 dollars. Or […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Fitness.Coach : Great name, shame about the renewal fee
New gTLDs can combine their keyword with the extension to form meaningful, SEO-ready pairs that create a strong brand. One such domain, Fitness.Coach, is made perfect for an industry ready to shed sweat, tears and money in order to be in shape. Alas, the associated renewal fee is $1,000 dollars according to its owner, who […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Dot .Wine and dot .Vin : High spirits among the gTLD elite
Donuts, Inc. has a couple of reasons to be celebrating with wine this weekend: the successful launch of its dot .Wine and dot .Vin gTLDs. Even before general availability exited EAP phase, active domain investors such as Michael Berkens rushed to secure meaningful, premium domains. The opening of the floodgates saw the real potential of […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Drunk and Stolen : Generic dot .com domains fail to sell
A couple of domain gems were made available in the aftermarket recently, barely pushing five figures. In the past, such domains would command high five figures, maybe more, but in this case they ended up unsold. First, Stolen.com was auctioned on Flippa. The 18 year old domain had 22 bids and a high offer of […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Hopscotch.com : Generic domain was saved from the clutches of a UDRP filing at the WIPO
The generic domain Hopscotch.com has been saved from the clutches of a Complainant who filed a UDRP relying on a French trademark. Hopscotch Group of Paris, France filed the UDRP at the WIPO, flaunting its trademarks and several registered domains that contained the term “hopscotch.” They currently operate from HopscotchGroupe.com. According to the UDRP: “The […]
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