Just reported 10 trademark violation auctions on Flippa
After a year plus of allowing the listing of blatant trademark violations at its marketplace, Flippa.com – the Australian auction house for domains and web sites – finally decided to utilize a filtering mechanism. The method of disallowing certain strings in domains was welcomed by DomainGang. So exactly how is it implemented these days? We […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Vindicated: Flippa takes measures against trademark violation listings
DomainGang is finally vindicated. For a year now we’ve been saying how Flippa.com – the Australian marketplace for auctioning domains and web sites – allowed particularly famous trademark violations to be listed. The examples we raised our concern about included Facebook, Twitter, Apple and Microsoft. According to the latest corporate blog post by Flippa, first […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.DNForum closes trademark sales threads down – What does Flippa do?
Popular domain forum DNForum.com – voted top domain forum for 2011 – continues its firm practice of disallowing and closing down sales threads that offer trademark violations for sale. An example can be seen at this thread, where an obvious Google trademark domain was being offered for sale. The thread was closed with the notification […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.A tip for Elliot’s readers
Domain investor Elliot Silver is running an interesting contest currently; the subject is DNForum and various tidbits of trivia that participants are called to answer. Regarding question #4 “What popular (but controversial) “gossip” website’s domain name was once listed on DNF for $19.95?“, we’d like to make some clarification for those inclined to refer to DomainGang: […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.QR.com – The Six Figure domain that didn’t sell at Domainfest
The two letter dot com domain QR.com was initially listed as sold at Domainfest in Santa Monica; the shock came a little later, as it was revealed that the highest bidder thought he was bidding on the next lot, for 12.com Embarrassing as it may seem, these things do happen and there are provisions in […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.DNForum, QR.com and bidding drama
Among the domains announced to have sold at Domainfest was QR.com – a two letter dot com of extreme appeal to the industry of QR codes that has infiltrated our lives, all while bar codes are dying a fast technological death. QR.com was listed as sold at $325,000 – a seriously awesome price – thus […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Forum Chaos: Should you use your Real Name or a Handle?
There is an ongoing discussion at DNForum, with the subject being the use of real names by the forum members. While this is just a discussion, the options that are being polled upon are: Use usernames/aliases Use real names It doesn’t matter Adam Dicker, owner of DNForum, made it clear that those who opt to […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.It’s Politics no more for DNForum
Popular domain discussion forum, DNForum.com owner Adam Dicker has closed down the forum’s Politics section. The section existed for a long time, polarizing domainers into liberals and conservatives; often times the intensity of commentary led to heated discussions with rude words and insults flying around. Adam’s statement: “Due to the immature behaviour of a group […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Adam Dicker on Webmaster Radio
DNForum owner and Domain Hall of Fame inductee, Adam Dicker has been interviewed by Victor Pitts, operator of the popular Web Master Radio FM broadcast. The interview with Adam Dicker will be available tonight at 7:00 PM Eastern Time by visiting this URL.
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.DNForum to increase security requiring extended Domainer verification
DNForum.com– the premier domain name forum – has announced a series of changes that will increase security among its numerous members. Adam Dicker, owner of DNForum and recently inducted to the Domain Hall of Fame during TRAFFIC Ft. Lauderdale, mentioned in a post today: All NEW users will be required to be phone and address […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.In bad taste: NamePros permits sale of Steve Jobs domains
NamePros allows the sale of domains that contain or refer to the name of Steve Jobs. That’s an example of bad taste registrations and characteristic of domain vultures. One such thread was reported and we received this message from one of the moderators: “While I agree with we don’t currently have rules in place to […]
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