Are you nuts? Domain Registrar Hover.com stores Account Passwords in plain text!
This is just incredible; and it doesn’t come from some sort of deep research, white-hat hacking! Hover.com – a former URL shortener service that became a domain registrar – openly admits to storing account passwords in unencrypted, plain text format! Quoting from the Hover.com web site: Password resets quickly became one of the top concerns […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Borders.com included in $435 million bankruptcy sale of bookstore chain?
According to a Borders press release: Bidding on bankrupt bookstore chain Borders has begun. Phoenix-based private equity firm Najafi Companies will serve as the stalking-horse bidder, kicking off the court-supervised auction with a bid of $215.1 million plus the assumption of about $220 million worth of liabilities. Once the auction begins, other companies—including Gores Group, […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.After Owner Frager, Elliot Silver changes Domaining avatar!
Following on the heels of Owner Frager and his recently introduced re-branding, popular domain investor and blogger Elliot Silver has changed his Domaining.com avatar. Instead of the mugshot, the new avatar now features Elliot’s initials of “EB” – for Elliot’s Blog. As stats have shown with the Frager Factor, such a brand change is considered […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Where in the world is Rick Schwartz?
It’s very uncommon for Rick Schwartz to sit all quiet for a while; the Domain King usually greets everyone with a jovial “Morning Folks!” from his blog. But Rick hasn’t blogged since June 6th, something that leads us to believe that he’s up to something. With only a few weeks left till TRAFFIC in Ft. […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Adam Dicker launches ShowcaseManager.com
Popular domain forum owner (DNForum.com) and veteran domainer, Adam Dicker, has announced the launch of a brand new domain marketplace, ShowcaseManager.com – with ZERO commission with regards to sales. In an email, initially sent out to Exclusive members of DNForum, the new domain marketplace’s benefits are explained as follows: Showcasemanager.com brought to you by DNFORUM.com […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.GoDaddy back up after major renovation
GoDaddy went down for almost 3 hours earlier tonight, but the #1 registrar in the world is now back up. “We had some issues with the new template layout”, said Ricky Parsons, visual artist at GoDaddy and nephew of CEO, Bob Parsons. “The image of Danica Patrick withstood some enhancements, removing some moles and we […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Gamer.fr sells for a small chunk of euro on Sedo
Ahhh, ze French! They are not always stingy with ze money! 😀 Not that we have any complaints with our French friend, Francois Carrillo; he’s a smart financier of funds. Back on topic: Gamer.fr was sold on Sedo for a small but very satisfying chunk of money. Not bad for a TLD that imposes some […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Got a piece of domain Gaming news? Better not blink!
There are many sources to information related to games but not all of them relate to domains. It’s actually tricky having to associate events from outside the domain industry to domains themselves. A couple of days ago it was evident that the Nintendo Wii “U” release was asking for a domain of its own: WiiU.com […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.EG.com – Waste of a $250,000 domain
The appraisal of top-tier 2-letter .com, EG.com is moderate at a quarter of a million dollars. The letters match the ISO code for Egypt; a country that was in the world news a lot recently, and that’s where the majority of its traffic comes from, according to Alexa. However, the domain EG.com is simply parked […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.What do Mike Mann and Dr. Kevorkian have in common?
Dr. Kevorkian – known as Dr. Death – finally passed away today. No, it wasn’t by assisted suicide. Meanwhile, the domain name DrKevorkian.com is currently on sale by Mike Mann’s Domain Market. Mike Mann is asking a measly $350 and zero cents for the domain. Now, that’s a killer price! 😀
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.DSK scandal: One tweet – loads of traffic!
Three days ago, a single tweet that broadcasted our article on the Strauss-Kahn.com domain name managed to deliver a tsunami of traffic. For those that underestimate the importance of global current events as they pertain to domaining, no worries; we’ll gladly fill that gap 😀 More than 1,800 unique visitors from Europe sampled a taste […]
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