ICA : Let #ICANN know you oppose dot .COM price hikes by #Verisign
The Internet Commerce Association has created a tool for comment submissions, that notifies ICANN of your opposition to upcoming .com price hikes. Verisign, managers of the .com (and .net) domain space, are planning to raise the base cost of dot .com domains by 7% annually. According to the email from ICA, the price increases benefit […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Lost in #UDRP : No, “solar turbines” is not a generic pair of #domain keywords
If you thought that the words “solar turbines” is a generic keyword pair, you’d be surprised. The Solar Turbines company has a long history going back almost 100 years, and it’s a subsidiary of Caterpillar. Although they don’t have a US trademark for SOLAR TURBINES, they registered one in Mexico in 2012. In a UDRP […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.“Connected Giving Foundation” and ORG : #PIR replacement structure revealed
The trustees of the Internet Society, overseers of PIR – the .ORG Registry – announced the formation of the Connected Giving Foundation. Referred to in internal documents as “CGF”, the transitional organization will have the same supportive function as PIR provides to the Internet Society today. CGF is the entity that will receive the funds, […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.VDF.com : #Vodafone Spain let aged three letter #domain drop!
Está loca! Vodafone Spain let VDF.com, a three letter domain acronym registered in 1993, to expire and drop. This incredible feat of stupidity manifested after the domain changed hands in 2015, leaving the hands of a private seller to Vodafone, a telecom giant. Apparently, someone at Vodafone Spain dropped the domain renewal ball. VDF.com now […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.#Domainer masks : New startup launched on fears of a #Coronavirus epidemic
If you’re traveling around the world as a domain broker, or to attend conferences such as NamesCon, you need a face mask. The Coronavirus epidemic is forcing many nations to skip travel to China, but the world’s travelers are still flying. A new domain start-up is issuing protective masks for domainers, with your favorite domain […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Philip Morris : Barrage of new #UDRP filings for #IQOS in 2020
Philip Morris Products S.A. has filed numerous UDRP complaints for domains that contain its marks. The smokeless tobacco company set new records in 2019, and continues to do so in 2020. In just 5 weeks, Philip Morris Products S.A. has filed 26 new UDRP cases, for 30 domains that contain the IQOS and HEETS trademarks. […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.#Scalpers fashion gets hit with Reverse #Domain Name Hijacking finding in #UDRP
A Spanish fashion company, Scalpers Fashion, S.L., attempted to get the domain Scalpers.com via the UDRP process, after its offers were refused. The domain Scalpers.com was registered in 1997, a full decade before the Complainant’s incorporation. The Respondent sought $195,000 dollars in exchange, and the Complainant alleged that this is a demonstration of bad faith, […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.#Alfaleads .com : Aged #domain got hit with #UDRP from a #Chinese company
The domain Alfaleads.com was registered in 2012, and in 2019 a Chinese company with Russian trademarks filed a UDRP against the domain’s registrant. It’s clear that the domain’s public content hasn’t been updated since 2012, as it asks visitors to “Check back in 2013 for new promotions and contests.” The domain is being used as […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.#Domain planets : Forget about #Mercury, it’s all about #Uranus !
The sale of Mercury.com is secondary news; what matters right now is Uranus, and its matching domain, Uranus.com. Who is Uranus? The beautiful blue planet in our solar system took its name from Greek god Ouranos (Ουρανός) – the personification of the skies. Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun, and it has the […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.No, the FBI won’t be holding onto seized #domains forever
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is doing an excellent job shutting down web sites that promote scams or assist crime. Many of these domains associated with the active web sites sell knock-offs. In other cases, the FBI seized domains associated with sex crimes and prostitution. Over the course of the past two decades, hundreds if […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.#Stöbich vs #Stobich .com : An #umlaut didn’t matter in this #UDRP decision
Registered in 1998, the domain name Stobich.com was taken through the UDRP process at the WIPO, where it was lost. Stöbich Brandschutz GmbH, the owner of the Stöbich mark, uses the German umlaut that is transliterated as “oe” – indeed, they operate from the domain Stoebich.com. According to the UDRP, the Complainant used to own […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.#Uniregistry Brokerage: Top 20 #domains sold – week ending Feb 3, 2020 – MyMind.com
Uniregistry, a DomainGang sponsor, announced its Top 20 sales for the week ending February 3, 2020. Top sale: MyMind.com at $36,000 dollars. The report includes only domain sales that can be shared publicly, and only domains that were sold using the services of the Uni Brokerage team — not self-brokered sales. Here’s the list of […]
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