Profit: Aussie domainer reports record sales numbers of 3-letter domains
Crikey! It’s raining money Down Under, it seems, as Profit.com.au, an Australian domain investing publication and marketplace shared in recent news. Sales of 3 letter .com.au domain names are approaching record numbers, with May being quite spectacular, apparently. Father and son teamsters, Ned and Luke O’Meara, are thoroughly excited, both for the domain sales numbers […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Crikey! There’s gold in them .au domain names!
Welcome to Australia, the land of Oz—Down Under! For the past 8 days, new domain names are being allocated to Australians; they are shorter by dropping the “.com” before the “.au” part. It’s now open season, as existing com.au registrants who did not participate in the priority allocation process that ended are coming to find […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Bitcoin.com.au: Domain sold for $3 million Australian dollars
In 2014, Domenic Carosa spent “just” $60,000 AUD (Australian dollars) and acquired the domain Bitcoin.com.au. Fast forward eight years later, the founder of Banxa.com, a multi-national fintech company, sold it for a massive $3 million AUD; approximately $2 million USD. This marks the biggest sale of a .com.au domain name ever recorded! This fascinating story […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Australian rules change the .com.au #domain playing field
G’day mate, if you’re a fan of the land of Oz then good on ya. Just don’t go about registering .com.au domains without an Aussie presence as rules are changing. The Australian ruler on the dot .AU namespace, auDA, released new regulations on who can register .com.au and .net.au domains, along with trademark priority registrations. […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.LLL .com.au : AuDA can hand over your domain if associated business is terminated?
If you own an Australian domain ending in .com.au, which was registered in association with a business, that domain might be re-allocated should the business shuts down. The registrant of a LLL .com.au domain found out the hard way, after his 15-year old three letter domain was given to a different business. The key element […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.#AusRegistry shared its #domain registration data for May
AusRegistry, the Australian domain name Registry, shared its latest domain registration report for the month of May 2018. Each report contains information on registration, transactions, renewals, transfers and drop-offs. Also included in the reports is the overall number of .au domain names registered in the Australian name space and a breakdown of each zone; com.au, […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Australian Domain Register Pty Ltd fooled domain registrants into .com registrations
Domain Register Pty Ltd is an Australian company, operating a “domain notification” scheme; according to Netregistry Australia, that explains what happened to its customers: “This group seems to have harvested the postal address information of several domain owners and has been sending them domain registration forms disguised as domain renewal forms. The group seem to […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Australians prepare for the “Death of the .Com”
Australians are passionate about their nationality; the land of the Oz has its own ccTLD: dot .AU. Only problem is, you can’t register domains in .AU directly, you’d have to register a .com.au, which is also restricted to Australians. Australia’s regulatory body for domain names, (auDA), recently announced its 2015 Names Policy Panel proposal. Australian […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Aussie investor, Sidney Feelmore, bitten by ‘rabid’ domainer
Australian domain investor and multi-level farmer, Sidney Feelmore, was in the Royal Hospital in Queensland, Australia yesterday, following an unfortunate confrontation with a former customer. Grimacing from pain after being treated for several bites, Feelmore was given a tetanus shot and a hefty round of antibiotics. “Crikey, got some serious marks on me hand, mate, […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Sidney Feelmore: Dot com domains and gTLDs suck the tits of Aussie names, mate!
Australian domain investor and frequent mile flyer, Sidney Feelmore, minced no words on Thursday, as he got off the plane from attending Domain Europe in Valencia, Spain. “I’ve seen, and I use the word loosely, some pansy domainers tinkle with those cockies, the gTLDs. It’s absolutely remarkable to me that domainers can crack a fat […]
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