Mitt Romney wants to regulate who is a Domainer
Republican candidate, Mitt Romney, is currently being lobbied by a group of technocrats from Los Angeles. The Anti-Cybersquatting League (ACL) was formed early last year, with the intention to push for legislation regarding domain ownership and the trade of domains in the open market. “We are all for entrepreneurial deregulation,” said Judy Miller of ACL. […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Bobak Ferdowsi of NASA mission to Mars: Nice mohawk, shame about the dot com
Bobak Ferdowsi is a flight director for the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity mission, that successfully landed the Curiosity rover on Mars. With less than 200 twitter followers, Bobak Ferdowsi wasn’t expecting his followship to explode but it did: more than 18,000 people now follow him. Not only he’s now famous for his partially shaved head […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Voula Papachristou: No more tweeting!
The Greek triple-jumper, Voula Papachristou, has apparently learned a hard lesson and has quit tweeting. Since her public apology about a tweet that was deemed racist by the Greek Olympic Committee, resulting in her banishment from the Greek Olympic team, Voula Papachristou has not tweeted. Papachristou also deleted the offensive tweet, which can still be […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Domain names, Olympic tweets and chicks with toned bodies
You might not be able to read this editorial, because for the past 20+ hours, DomainGang is being hammered by thousands of visitors. Our article about Voula Papachristou – the Greek triple-jumper with the toned body and nice glutes – went viral; thousands of Olympic ogling males are looking for pictures of the banned athlete. […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Greek triple-jumper: Voula Papachristou pictures and the dot com
Greek triple-jumper Voula Papachristou was banned from the London Olympics yesterday, after a thoughtless “joke” over Twitter was considered racist and in violation of the International Olympic Committee guidelines. Our access logs experienced a lot of interest in photos of Voula Papachristou, whose apology came too late to save her from banishment; the Greek Olympic […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Epic Domain Battle: The Wyvern’s Tale gets a new domain but makes the wrong choice!
What happens when one doesn’t have assistance in making decisions related to domain names? They make bad choices. Two days ago we wrote about the saga of The Wyvern’s Tale – a games shop in Asheville, North Carolina – that experienced the unfortunate event of having their dot com squatted upon by the competition. Despite […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.The Wyvern’s Tale: If all else fails, register your competitor’s domains!
A drama is unfolding in the otherwise quiet city of Asheville in North Carolina. In a nutshell: Two competing board game businesses are fighting online, mainly through Facebook, after one of the two registered the .com of the other’s name. The story isn’t as simple as it appears to be. Apparently, the second company was […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.GoDaddy repossesses BobbiKristina .com
Two weeks ago, we wrote about how on the day of Whitney Houston’s death, the domain name BobbiKristina.com was registered by some obscure adult entertainer and was placed for sale on AfterMarket.com. It was subsequently removed from the marketplace by force, but it seems that now GoDaddy has stepped in and repossessed the domain! According […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Whitney Houston legacy: Disrespecting the dead by cybersquatting on the living
The day Whitney Houston died more than 325 related domains were registered, declaring the passing away of the famous singer diva. This is not unusual, as the passing away of a famous person always triggers interest in their name and life’s achievements. We saw some distasteful registrations in the past, when Steve Jobs passed away. […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Billions Registered: The story of the original registrant of McDonalds.com
Joshua Quittner is an American journalist, having co-authored with his wife several books, including the non-fiction Masters of Deception: The Gang That Ruled Cyberspace and Speeding the Net: The Inside Story of Netscape and How it Challenged Microsoft. As a freelancer for Wired magazine, Quittner performed one of the earliest demonstrations of cybersquatting, by registering […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Flippa Friday: Microsoft domain hits the chopping block
Flippa.com, the domain and web site auction house Down Under, continues to allow trademark violations on its marketplace. Not content with iPhone and Apple trademarks, Flippa goes full house this Friday with a listing that clearly violates one of the famous Microsoft trademarks. MicrosoftFeed.com is presented by its seller at Flippa as “A top quality […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Selling Trademark Domains: Are listing venues guilty?
A post from yesterday regarding the listing of almost 500 “facebook” domains on TDNAM caused some serious stir. It seems that not everyone agrees about a listing venue’s responsibility regarding the trading of trademark-infringing domains. Such venues include GoDaddy’s TDNAM, eBay, Flippa.com and others. Sedo and Afternic are known to pro-actively enforce the removal of […]
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