Thousands of domains registered today pay increased fees
Thousands of domain names are registered daily, but today – February 29 – is a special day that occurs every four years. Leap year registrations on February 29th are thus problematic, as they expire one day prior to their anniversary – on February 28th of the following year. In other words, domainers end up paying […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.ICANN does it again
ICANN -The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers – has launched a redesigned web site, at ICANN.org; proving that its multi-million dollar liquidity did not go to waste. 😀 The new web site at ICANN.org features vastly improved navigation, pleasing colors and multi-language support.
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Apple to give $15 to iPhone 4 buyers
A class action lawsuit against Apple and its deficient iPhone 4 antenna has been settled. After the “chump change” that lawyers involved in the class action lawsuit will receive, each member of the class receives $15 net. Under the settlement, eligible customers will get an e-mail from Apple some time in April. They’ll then have […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Ladies, have $1,000 to spare? Get the Del Rey handbag
English luxury fashion setters, Mulberry, are honoring Lana Del Rey – singing phenomenon daughter of domain investor, Rob Grant – by naming one of their new designs after her. The “Del Rey” handbag by Mulberry will be available in May at a cost of $1,000. Full report here.
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Domainer’s amazing resemblance to American Idol contestant
It’s Friday so here’s something fun 😀 Performer Reed Grimm is currently competing in the American Idol competition; the 26 year old from Wisconsin will now appear in the Las Vegas eliminations next week. Reed Grimm’s cunning resemblance to one popular domainer made us run this poll, so please vote 😀
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.PIR is down for maintenance
PIR – the .ORG Registry – is currently down, but not for long: Currently .ORG registry is performing a scheduled maintenance. The maintenance window is Feb 11, 10 am – 2 pm EST (Feb 11, 3 pm – 7 pm UTC). During this time, registrations, renewals, transfers and WHOIS lookups will not be available. DNS […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Domaintools rolls out huge new feature
A new feature has been rolled out by top WHOIS tool, DomainTools. After years of substituting email addresses with an image, registered members that are logged in can now copy and paste email addresses from the WHOIS output. Many thanks to Francois of Domaining.com who pointed that out!
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.The Domainers’ Song – Sans lyrics
The Domainers’ Song – a smooth, instrumental descent into the reality of daily domaining. Says its creator, Rod: “This is my first youtube video and the first attempt at the ‘domainers song’ which is a tune designed to replicate the emotions and thoughts of registering a domain name, anxiety, apprehension, confusion and any other thoughts […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Lana Del Rey on the cover of Vogue magazine
Singer Lana Del Rey, talented daughter of domain investor Robert Grant has taken her successful career to a new level. Lana appears on the cover of the British edition of Vogue magazine; the March issue, in particular. Titled “The Fascinating Lana Del Rey“, the issue strategically places the words “Oh so pretty!” at the bottom […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Zynga shares to rise on Facebook $5 billion IPO
Zynga, the makers of various popular games including Words with Friends, was up 4% after hours at the NASDAQ index. The reason? Facebook will be having a $5 billion IPO, which will further solidify the involvement of satellite services such as Zynga. Like it or not, Facebook is being used by almost a billion people […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.iReport.com – Former Rick Schwartz asset reaches 1,000,000 members
iReport.com – the domain sold to CNN by Rick Schwartz in a transaction that netted the Domain King $750,000 has reached a major milestone today: 1,000,000 members. In a notice at iReport.CNN.com the announcement of its millionth member fails to disclose that the news network no longer uses the domain, other than as a forward […]
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