Someone wants to trademark “.COM” at the United States Patent and Trademark Office!
A new trademark application at the USPTO attempts to register “.COM” – that is “dot com.” The application cites the following services as the mark’s use: Providing an on-line platform which provides insurance offers from multiple insurance companies This is an “intent to use” application, so should domain investors who deal with dot .com domains […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Company wants to register COM as a #trademark – are .COM #domains in danger?
A company wants to trademark “COM” at the USPTO, and that might make a lot of domain investors uneasy. The trademark application was filed in June by Connecting World Merchandise, LLC, and in international class 035: “Wholesale ordering services in the field of medical apparatuses” But although the use of COM as a trademark is […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.#Verisign stock soars, as dot .COM Registry prepares for quarterly report
Verisign, managers of the .COM TLD, are getting ready to release quarterly data, reporting financial performance for the year so far. The report will be shared in an upcoming audio conference on April 23, next week. When that announcement was made, Verisign stock was trading at $181 dollars a share. Today, VRSN soared and closed […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Domainer Comics : The Minds of Domainer Millionaires
It’s already been two months since the last edition of Domainer Comics, the open-ended coverage of current domain industry events. Recent events about the new gTLDs have led to heated arguments, on a variety of media – including Twitter. To honor two great domainer millionaires, Rick Schwartz and Frank Schilling, we conducted the following deep […]
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.Dot .CO Registry: Active .com domains might corrode with time
A shocking new report from the Dot .CO Registry, managers of the dot .CO domains, reveals the real problems behind everyone’s beloved dot .com. The research, published at MicroDots Weekly, reveals that dot .com domains that remain active 24/7 as web sites, lose a crucial part of their microcode over time. “Without the microcommander module […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Turkish registrant grabs .com name of murdered American tourist Sarai Sierra
American photographer, Sarai Sierra, was found murdered in Istanbul yesterday, sending waves of concern among thousands of would-be tourists planning to visit Turkey. The lone traveler from New York, was apparently lured to a remote location by one of her online contacts; then brutally stabbed several times. While the Sarai Sierra Instagram account is still […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Edited: TDNAM.com SSL expired
Currently, the Secure Layer Certificate (SSL) for GoDaddy’s TDNAM appears to have expired. When visiting TDNAM.com one sees the following message: www.tdnam.com uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate is only valid for the following names: auction.godaddy.com , www.auction.godaddy.com , auction.godaddy.com , auctions.godaddy.com (Error code: ssl_error_bad_cert_domain) It seems that GoDaddy – themselves a provider of […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Eyjafjallajokull – A tongue-twister glacier not worthy of its own .com
Eyjafjallajokull is one of the smallest glaciers of Iceland, a country where happy people enjoy hot spring baths in the heart of Arctic winter. Apparently, the volcano on top of the Eyjafjallajokull glacier has just erupted and hundreds of Icelanders are being evacuated. Eyjafjallajokull does not have a .com registered in its name. No wonder […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Tens of Thousands of Domains to be Recalled
The .com/.net Registry is recalling tens of thousands of domains registered in the first two months of 2010 in an effort to control a severe flaw related to the capability of these domains to resolve quickly. Long known for its laggard efforts to promote innovation, Verisign – the .com/.net Registry – announced early today that […]
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