DNForum: Fresh list of TikTok accounts from the domain industry!

Posted by DomainGang on April 15, 2024, at 9:36 am

Do you have a TikTok account that is related to your domain industry activities? Whether it’s a personal or a business account, consider submitting it to DNForum to be included in its latest list of TikTok accounts. According to an announcement by Helmuts Meskonis, CEO of DNForum, submissions are free. Here is the press release: […]

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Epik still owns a piece of DNForum!

Posted by DomainGang on May 9, 2023, at 2:20 pm

Epik took over DNForum in 2021, announcing with plenty of fanfare the grand plans it had for the domain forum. Special Announcement! It is with great excitement that Epik also announces its acquisition and planned integration of DNForum. As the oldest community of domain investors and collectors in our industry, we recognize the tremendous opportunity […]

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DNForum: Annual membership of $750 a shocker to existing members

Posted by DomainGang on May 8, 2023, at 10:40 am

DNForum is reportedly going to roll out memberships costing $750 dollars per year, in a shock to existing members who already paid for memberships. These paid members (Exclusive, Gold, Silver) will be losing both visible and invisible benefits, such as the ability to have signature images and access to exclusive domain trading sub-forums. The new […]

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Adam Dicker’s “biggest fan” has acquired #DNForum from Digital Candy

Posted by DomainGang on April 27, 2023, at 8:25 am

Host Maria owner, Helmuts Meskonis, sent out a press release on his acquisition of DNForum, the oldest, most times sold domainer forum on the planet. An apparent fan of former owner, Adam Dicker, Meskonis has now followed up on his recent acquisition of British sleeper forum, Acorn Domains, by snagging DNForum. Meskonis stated he spent […]

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British company Digital Candy has acquired DNForum.com

Posted by DomainGang on February 14, 2023, at 4:38 pm

UK-based company, Digital Candy, has acquired the domain, forum, and other assets of DNForum.com from Epik. The company is part of the Falbros Group, led by Ryan De Corsie Ewen and the Ewen family. The group has created and collected “over 1000 digital assets and is at the pioneering end of technology,” according to their […]

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Epik selling assets to pay off debt; is DNForum about to be sold?

Posted by DomainGang on December 7, 2022, at 10:15 am

Candida.com was sold for $100,000 dollars utilizing the Epik escrow process in September, but Kathleen Kalaf, the domain’s former owner, has not received $91,000 dollars as part of the deal. The money was kept by Epik and although the company has acknowledged the debt it has yet to complete the transaction. Epik, effectively, has kept […]

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Walk.com: Still “under construction” 7 months after seven figure sale

Posted by DomainGang on February 6, 2022, at 12:23 pm

In July 2021, the domain Walk.com was reported as sold in a deal that reached seven figures USD. The sale appears to have taken place using Epik’s escrow services, per a discussion on DNForum.com. There is no report of a sale recorded at NameBio. Registered in 1995, Walk.com is a top tier, dictionary .com domain […]

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Investor held 2-letter .io domain for 5 days before it was clawed back

Posted by DomainGang on January 7, 2022, at 1:57 pm

A domain investor from India was thanking his lucky stars, after managing to register a premium, 2-letter .IO domain. Using Namecheap as the domain registrar, the investor registered the domain NY.io along with INFO.io on November 17, 2021. But just 5 days later, the Registry took the domain back, “clawing” it due to an error. […]

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Meta #Epik: Should there be a rebrand?

Posted by DomainGang on November 2, 2021, at 10:42 am

Epik suffered a large scale data breach in early September, exposing gigabytes of data that included personally identifiable information of its customers and their transactions. The domain registrar known for its “Swiss Bank of Domains” motto, received a big blow that permanently associates its brand with loss of client data and links the company to […]

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DNForum and NamePros on the alleged #Epik data breach

Posted by DomainGang on September 15, 2021, at 3:15 pm

Users of domain forums, DNForum and NamePros are actively debating the alleged data breach at Epik, a much publicized incident involving Anonymous. Epik, operating from Epik.com, is a domain registrar that is known outside of the domain investing community for “providing services to websites that host far-right, neo-Nazi, and other extremist content.” In recent days, […]

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Epik has acquired DNForum

Posted by DomainGang on July 4, 2021, at 1:04 pm

Epik announced the acquisition of DNForum, in a transaction that was leaked publicly a few days ago. The announcement marks yet another transfer of the oldest domain forum that changed hands several times in its lifespan. DNForum was last acquired by a group of domain investors in 2018. Robert Davis, EVP Communications for Epik, said […]

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#DNForum : Something great is in the works!

Posted by DomainGang on December 18, 2020, at 10:56 am

DNForum, the oldest domain-focused forum for domain investors, is up to something. Hopefully, something great is in the works! 😀 In a cryptic message posted to the forum, the moderators indicated that upcoming changes and improvements will be offering great value to existing and future members of DNForum: Over the next couple of weeks, DNForum […]

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