Shattered dreams: Made in China dot xxx owner wants $595,000 on Flippa

Posted by DomainGang on December 13, 2011, at 9:49 pm

Due to a severe lack of quality control, the Australian aftermarket Flippa.com is fast becoming the junkyard where domain newbs pose as “developers” and opportunists attempt to sell worthless domains for thousands of dollars. Such is the case with this sales entry on Flippa: the seller of MadeInChina.xxx is asking for $595,000 for this “beauty”. […]

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Fun Sunday with Flippa: Trademark violations

Posted by DomainGang on December 11, 2011, at 6:35 pm

Here’s a short compiled list of trademark violations sold or for sale on Flippa. The Australian domain auction house where domain investors are being talked down, according to Andrew Knibbe‘s post at John Chow’s pro-Blog seems unwilling to utilize any resources in order to exclude obvious trademark violations from its marketplace. The end result: serial […]

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Lo mein for John Chow: How Flippa stepped on the wrong toes

Posted by DomainGang on December 10, 2011, at 1:57 am

Pro-blogger John Chow hosted an article written by Flippa marketing manager, Andrew Knibbe. The title: “Domain Investing is Dead.” Never read a bigger load of bullshit hosted on a “pro blog“. But then again, I don’t read blogs of people who promote multi level marketing and how-to DVDs. It’s the kind of snake oil that […]

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Flippa flop: How To Make Your Voice Deeper Today dot com

Posted by DomainGang on December 6, 2011, at 5:10 pm

Poor Flippa quality control admins, if they ever got to get things right on the Australian domain marketplace, they’d need 25 hours on a given day. In November we disclosed how a “gem” of a typo was being sold as a “premium domain” on Flippa. Right as we thought nothing could top this off, there’s […]

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Provident Link: When gTLDs go Down Under

Posted by DomainGang on November 13, 2011, at 1:13 pm

The upcoming opening by ICANN of the TLD namespace to include generic words, has many drooling with anticipation. In Australia and New Zealand, Provident Link is a consulting company currently assisting with the creation of gTLDs in this far end of the South Pacific: “Provident Link is an Australian owned and operated Company. We are […]

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Exclusive: The remarkable story behind the $138,000 sale of CreditCard.net

Posted by DomainGang on September 24, 2011, at 12:05 am

The credit market is still healthy in far-away Australia, as the remarkable sale of CreditCard.net proves. The new owner of CreditCard.net, Roland B. Bleyer, is a partner of Credit World Australia – a credit card portal specializing in affiliate offers. The seller, Yinan Wang, is no longer working as an active full-time domainer and webmaster […]

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More trademark violations listed for sale at Flippa

Posted by DomainGang on September 7, 2011, at 1:25 pm

Earlier today we demonstrated how Flippa.com – the Australian domain marketplace – remained inactive after we pointed out how a Microsoft related domain was allowed to be listed for auction. The response by the Flippa support that they won’t do anything to remove obvious violations of famous trademarks unless they receive a request by the […]

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Michael Gilmour’s blog attacked by DDoS – Day 2

Posted by DomainGang on August 26, 2011, at 2:42 pm

ParkLogic – the brainchild of Australian domain entrepreneur Michael Gilmour – is up today, unlike his personal blog at http://whizzbangsblog.com As Michael explained yesterday at his blog, ParkLogic has been under a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that forced him to temporarily switch the corporate web site off in order to inform everyone about […]

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ParkLogic.com gets hammered by distributed denial of service attack

Posted by DomainGang on August 25, 2011, at 11:25 pm

It seems that ParkLogic.com is currently down. The domain monetization service, provided by ParkLogic and Australian domain entrepreneur Michael Gilmour is being involved in a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS). Park Logic recently announced a strategic partnership with DNForum, according to this press release. Michael Gilmour is the first person we met and conversed […]

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Aboriginal Domainer owner of Australia’s top domain portfolio

Posted by DomainGang on August 27, 2010, at 12:00 am

Having spent the best part of the past decade hidden in the bushland of the Australian Outback, Aboriginal domainer Birdari Umakulong owns a surprising portfolio of domain names. Birdari Umakulong – or Birdman, as his friends call him – owns a domain portfolio consisting of roughly 10,000 quality .co.au domains, something that not even the […]

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