Nate.tech scandal: Is AI stupid after all?
Nate, founded in 2018, raised over $50 million in funding. Operating from the domain Name.tech, the company secured a $38 million Series A round led by Renegade Partners, with support from investors like Coatue and Forerunner Ventures. Nate claimed its app allowed users to make purchases from any e-commerce site with a single click using AI. […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Saw.com: Bye bye bot traffic
In recent weeks, Saw.com mentioned that its back-end stats would count all visitors, including traffic that would arrive from bots and crawlers. That approach led to elevated traffic numbers that don’t represent human activity. Saw.com is now changing that approach, switching certain filters on, so that bot traffic isn’t included in domain statistics. The approach […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Dynadot adds domain appraisal tool—How does it fare?
Domain name evaluation tools have been around for years, attempting to automate the process of domain appraisals. Estibot, Saw, GoDaddy, and Atom provide such tools, with some producing higher numbers that tend to agree with a human’s perspective of domain value. Using AI, tools can improve their ability to accurately gauge a domain name’s potential. […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Gutex.com, SSTowing.com: Domain investor ready to fight double UDRP filings!
It’s a double UDRP whammy but nothing that SyncPoint, Inc. founder, Mr. David Lahoti, isn’t familiar with. The internet entrepreneur and domain investor shared news of two pending UDRP filings, for domains under his control: Gutex.com and SSTowing.com. Both UDRPs were filed around the same time, with the Gutex.com filing taking place at the WIPO […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.ZFBot: Domain research tool is now FREE!
Great news from ZFBot, the domain search tool that was developed to track hundreds of millions of domain names. Although it still requires registrations at ZFBot.com, the platform has switched to FREE after 8 years of subscription-based service. Ken Greenwood, the creator of ZFBot, stated: ZFBot is no longer going to be a paid for […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.HaulPay.com UDRP: Respondent won with Reverse Domain Name Hijacking finding
The domain HaulPay.com was registered it in 2012, combining two common dictionary words. Meanwhile, Dakota Financial LLC registered its HAUL PAY mark in 2017. Dakota Financial LLC filed a UDRP after it found the asking price for the domain, $500,000 dollars, to be exorbitant. It seems that this “Plan B” approach cost them more than […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.GEOIP.com: Domain lost in UDRP after Complainant poisoned data
In a fun case of data-poisoning, MaxMind Inc. defended its registered GEOIP trademark and won the UDRP case it filed against the domain GEOIP.com. Registered in 2000, the disputed domain’s registration predates the claimed first use of the GEOIP mark by two years. However, Namebio data shows that it was sold in 2014 for the […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Airo getting ready for an IPO—But it’s not GoDaddy’s
You probably saw the GoDaddy Airo commercials during the Super Bowl; the homegrown AI model that GoDaddy is promoting as the next best thing since sliced bread powers several GoDaddy products, including domain name selection and content creation for small businesses. The Airo product is under perpetual development but it’s not the biggest “Airo” product. […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.AdoptARPO.org UDRP: Pet alliance board member’s good deed didn’t go unpunished!
Alliance for Responsible Pet Ownership, Inc. filed a UDRP to get back the domain AdoptARPO.org, the primary domain used by its organization. Getting the domain “back” isn’t accurate, however, as the Respondent, Josh Huser—a former board member—used his personally chosen credentials to salvage the domain from expiring. Further down the road, when Mr. Huser resigned […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.‘Uni’ domain seized by the Secret Service in pig butchering scam
Pig butchering is a scam, typically a long con, that combines romance, investment fraud, and cryptocurrency. Originating in China, the term comes from the Chinese phrase for “pig-butchering plate” where the “pig” (the victim) is “fattened up” with affection and trust before being “slaughtered” (financially drained). A recent seizure by the US Secret Service in […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Invasion.com: Events company downgrades brand—Who bought the domain?
The domain name Invasion.com has served as a brand sidekick to Invasion, a British company that specialized in providing unforgettable experiences to the young generation through its brands Camp Thailand, Camp Bali, and more. In 2021, Intrax, a San Francisco based company, acquired the Invasion Camp Group, leading to Invasion changing its parent name to Intravelr. […]
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