FreeDrive.com sold for $30,000 – Largest recent sale on DNForum
DNForum – the top forum for domain professionals – can now boast the highest domain sale in recent memory, in a domainer forum. The domain name, FreeDrive.com and its associated content, has just been sold for $30,000 to a domain investor from Australia. In an era that looks down upon file-sharing web sites, such as […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Domainer from Down Under puts his organ back up for sale
Aussie domainer, Wayne, could not have been happier when he sold his domain name, organ.com in early June. Alas, the five figure sale did not materialize, as the buyer walked out of the deal and did not pay for the 17 year old domain. “Failed to settle“, said Wayne, who is now listing his organ […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Domainer sells his organ – The money was right!
Wayne, a domainer from Down Under, has announced the satisfactory sale of his premium domain, Organ.com. Registered in 1995, organ.com was listed on Flippa for several days with a BIN of $70,000; the domain received a high bid of $35,000 and five bids. Among the comments left in that auction, some were characteristically uneducated, challenging […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Just reported 10 trademark violation auctions on Flippa
After a year plus of allowing the listing of blatant trademark violations at its marketplace, Flippa.com – the Australian auction house for domains and web sites – finally decided to utilize a filtering mechanism. The method of disallowing certain strings in domains was welcomed by DomainGang. So exactly how is it implemented these days? We […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Vindicated: Flippa takes measures against trademark violation listings
DomainGang is finally vindicated. For a year now we’ve been saying how Flippa.com – the Australian marketplace for auctioning domains and web sites – allowed particularly famous trademark violations to be listed. The examples we raised our concern about included Facebook, Twitter, Apple and Microsoft. According to the latest corporate blog post by Flippa, first […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.DNForum closes trademark sales threads down – What does Flippa do?
Popular domain forum DNForum.com – voted top domain forum for 2011 – continues its firm practice of disallowing and closing down sales threads that offer trademark violations for sale. An example can be seen at this thread, where an obvious Google trademark domain was being offered for sale. The thread was closed with the notification […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Weird Wednesday with Flippa
A couple of days ago we received an email from a member of the Flippa.com staff. The email was promoting two auctions on Flippa, for the domain names Better.com and TheBe.st The message was personalized, in the sense that it included the whimsical statement: “…as far as we can tell, there’s no trademark violation in […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Australian owner of CreditCard.net snatches CreditCard.net.au in record pricing
Back in September we broke the news of Australian investor Roland B. Bleyer who acquired the domain name CreditCard.net for an astonishing $138,000. The Australian investor and portal developer has managed to set another record – in Australia this time – with the acquisition of CreditCard.net.au Roland B. Bleyer, who operates financial product portals CreditCard.com.au […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Flippa: Starting 2012 with yet another Trademark Violation listing
It’s the new year and it’s ridiculous that Flippa.com – the Australian domain auction platform – continues to allow obvious trademark violations on its marketplace. An example can be found here. Famous marks, like Apple’s iPhone are protected aggressively; Flippa maintains that unless the trademark holder complains, they won’t do anything. The problem is, once […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Shattered dreams: Made in China dot xxx owner wants $595,000 on Flippa
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”. […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Fun Sunday with Flippa: Trademark violations
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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