Shocker: Domain trading to become illegal in China
It’s no secret that the Chinese government has absolute power over its people; the 1.3 billion Chinese enjoy “freedom” exactly as it’s filtered through the bureaucrats of Beijing. Despite recent flourishing in the domain market, China’s economy is dependent on construction and manufacturing, along with the processing of toxic materials from billions of recycled Apple […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Large group of reportedly stolen numeric domains includes 002.com
A domain theft alert was posted today on DNForum, regarding the status of several, undoubtedly premium numeric domain names. Seven NNN .com domains and two NNNN .com domains were marked as “stolen” – the person announcing the theft is based in China and allegedly a friend of the domain owner whose domain names have been […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.When is a two-digit .com domain not worth millions?
If you owned a two-digit .com domain you’d be sitting on low seven figures. With the Chinese domain market gobbling up numbers like hard boiled eggs, any .com less than one hundred would be worth a small farm full with animals. We were surprised to see one offered for sale for just $125,000 dollars over […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Dot .Beijing surpasses 1 billion domain registrations on launch day!
Big news from China: they are now the most populous digital nation in the world. With more than 1 billion domain registrations for the brand new dot .Beijing gTLD, China now has more domains in the root than all other countries combined, four times over! “Market special, and free so better .CN because no rule […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Domain resurrection: Registerfly becomes ICANN-accredited .CN and .Asia registrar
The domain registrar associated with a mini scandal in the late 2000’s is back, having cleansed itself from its sinful past. Registerfly was once a popular – and affordable – domain registrar, that attracted thousands of domainers; at the time of its untimely demise, there were several million domains under management. After the domain expired, […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Dot .CN: WalMart’s new Top Level Domain a surprise to many
WalMart – the grocery super giant that many despise – won’t be applying for its own gTLD any time soon. “We are reviewing our strategy for 2014 and beyond, and have come to an agreement with the People’s Republic of China to lease full rights to dot .CN for the next 99 years”, said WalMart […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.WAN.com reportedly (re)sold for $800,000 to gaming network
The domain name WAN.com – a term that means “playing games” in Chinese – was reportedly sold for $800,000 dollars to online games giant, Changyou. The transaction appears to have completed at the end of December 2013. According to Changyou.com: “Changyou.com (NASDAQ: CYOU) is a leading developer and operator of online games in China as […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.NOC: Premium .org sells for four figures on NameJet
The auction for NOC.org, a premium, aged .org domain has ended over at NameJet. Registered in 1994, according to DomainTools, NOC.org represents an acronym popular with the network guru crowd: Network Operations Center. The final price of $2,060 dollars came after 110 bidders placed a total of 137 bids. The winner, hxcai, has been covered […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Chinese Moon Landing: Domain auction powerhouse 4.CN plants its flag
China has become only the third nation to plant its earthly flag on the surface of the Moon yesterday, after a successful moon landing. One critical aspect of the Chinese mission’s success, was corporate sponsorship by local companies, allowing research in aerodynamics, liquid fuel propulsion and nuclear trans-isotope fission to deliver results faster, better and […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Confirmed: Banana.com moved to China, pending sale price currently under NDA
We have received confirmation from Michael Castello, that the lengthy, seedless, mostly yellow fruit known as banana has been tentatively sold in its .com incarnation. Following our article “Banana Disappeared!” that pondered on the current status of the domain name, Banana.com, Michael Castello commented thus: “The big banana is in Asia. haha Will have more […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Banana disappeared!
A San Francisco monkey, Banana Sam, has passed away at the ripe age of 19. Rest in peace, Sam. 🙁 In other news from the domain jungle: Banana.com does not appear to be in the hands of the Castello Brothers any more. When did that happen??? This amazing fruit, apparently changed hands in May this […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Numeric Domains report: Most NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN .com domains *still* available
Domain investors of numeric domains awoke to a shocking revelation earlier today, when an article at Numeric Domains unveiled the sad reality: most NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN .com and .net domains are still unregistered. “I was under the impression that if I kept punching numbers on my keyboard as if it were stuck, I’d come up with a […]
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