Reported .com domain sales are all fake, claims .XYZ fanboi
Reporting domain sales is part of the community’s casual activities, along with having a cup of coffee and playing pickleball at 7:00am. Lists of sold .com domains dominate the news headlines on blogs and other publications. But are they real? Domain investor and part-time Uber driver, Julius K., doesn’t believe so. The divorced father of […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.#Domain crap : Verisign to share data about really bad .com registrations
Verisign announced that it will be publishing a live stream of .com data, showing the bad domain choices registrants make. The RSS feed will be titled “It might be a .com but it’s definitely crap” and will display the domain, the timestamp of the registration, and the first name of the registrant along with better […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.#BugNerds .com : Expired, misconfigured #domain or advertising genius?
We often come across domain names “in the wild” that fall into two main categories: .com and all the rest. When such domain names are emblazoned onto vehicles, we make sure that we’re stationary before taking a photo – safety comes first! In a recent encounter, we came across the domain BugNerds.com. Registered in 2012, […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Verisign cutting prices; launching .COM exchange program for gTLD domain owners
Verisign announced today that they are drastically cutting the base pricing of .com domains, to a “couple of bucks.” No longer considering new gTLDs as competition or a viable threat to the core domain business, the registry behemoth broke the big news during a luncheon, to a group of reporters: “We are witnessing a complete […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Domainer Comics : The World – It’s all about perspective
Welcome to the first edition of Domainer Comics for 2017, the open-ended coverage of current domain industry events. Time to ask a fundamental question: What is the world view like to you? For everyone on this planet, it’s a matter of perspective. Every view point is different, and there are now 7.4 billion of us […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.XYZ Generation : Did the domain Negari.com sell?
XYZ Registry founder, Daniel Negari, is not just trying to convince everyone that dot .XYZ domains are the future; he lives and breathes his own brand. It might have been inconceivable to many, but Negari put his own matching .com on a NameJet auction, stating he’d only need to keep Negari.XYZ. While the pool of […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Verisign thanks Syrian hackers for huge increase in ‘Registry lock’ feature requests
Verisign, managers of the .com and .net TLDs have a lot of thanks to send to the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA). The alleged perpetrators of a recent DNS hack, temporarily took control of Twitter, NY Times and the Huffington Post UK domains, after accessing the accounts of a Melbourne IT reseller. “We are grateful to […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Dot .com was a really bad idea, says ICANN official
With 909 new gTLDs getting the passing grade so far, ICANN is once again evaluating its support of the original TLDs. “We need to go through the documentation and examine how .com made the cut in 1985, it’s shocking really,” says Milosh Fritcz of ICANN-Hungary. “Dot .com was from the very beginning a very, very […]
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