Domainer ridiculed over ‘vowel only’ LLLL .com !

Posted by DomainGang on June 8, 2015, at 12:51 pm

It’s tough times for owners of LLLL .com domains that contain ‘bad letters’; and by that, we mean vowels. Gone are the days that vowel purity dictated the value of short domains, including LLL .com and LLLL .com registrations. Nowadays, the more unpronounceable a LLLL .com domain is, the better. “I’ve been ridiculed time and […]

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Verisign: Mike Mann registered all remaining .com domains!

Posted by DomainGang on April 25, 2014, at 11:17 am

An updated report from Verisign, long-term stewards of the .com and .net TLDs, showed a remarkable growth of .com domains overnight. With more than 271 million domains in existence at the end of 2013, Verisign’s digital assets are now twice as many as the day before yesterday. “Someone registered more than 200 million .com domains […]

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White spaces: Bounce.io turns digital email junk into a gold mine

Posted by DomainGang on February 20, 2014, at 5:50 pm

Bounce.io CEO, Scott Brown, attended NamesCon – the best new domain conference of 2014 – and pitched a very interesting new email product at select attendants. Essentially, Scott Brown’s company, processes several billion bounced emails every month; about 60% of it gets opened. Instead of displaying a bunch of cryptic messages, Bounce.io replaces the content […]

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Sergei Putanov: Russian domain billionaire buys Skorpios island

Posted by DomainGang on April 11, 2013, at 3:17 pm

Sergei Putanov, the Russian multi-billionaire real estate and domain investor, has acquired the Greek Skorpios island – former resort of the late Greek magnate, Aristotle Onassis. The sale, reputedly worth 100 million British pounds ($154 million dollars,) was completed after Athina Onassis-Roussel, grand-daughter of Aristotle Onassis, was approached by Putanov for a potential sale. Our […]

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Russian investor Sergei Putanov: I buy Gas.ru for $25 million dollar

Posted by DomainGang on January 2, 2013, at 5:45 pm

Sergei Putanov, the enigmatic domain investor and billionaire developer from Russia, is known for his impromptu investments in commodities around the world. Spending time between Ekaterinburg, Russia and Dubai-Florida, Sergei Putanov spoke to our correspondent, Nikolai Domienenko, about his imminent investment in the domain name Gas.ru. Nikolai Domienenko: “Sergei, happy new year and Счастливого Нового […]

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Mike Mann sells Brilliant.org for $25,000

Posted by DomainGang on November 15, 2012, at 2:17 pm

Mike Mann – the domain man with the plan to take over the world – has just sold Brilliant.org. Not only it’s a brilliant domain, but the ROI is astounding: Mike turned a $350 purchase in 2005 into a $25,000 sale. Congratulations, Mike! 😀

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Sergei Putanov: Domain investing in 2013

Posted by DomainGang on September 22, 2012, at 10:11 am

Russian domain entrepreneur, Sergei Putanov, is notorious for his obsession with Ukrainian supermodels, caviar and for being outspoken about domain investments. In the past decade, the Russian billionaire’s projects include investing in construction projects such as Dubai-Florida, jet-set millionaire clubs, and even his own .prostitute gTLD. Recently, Sergei Putanov is working on various secret domain […]

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Greek flair: Adam Dicker prepares changes to DNForum

Posted by DomainGang on September 21, 2012, at 2:02 pm

Canadian domain investor, Adam Dicker, is preparing to enter the new fiscal year with a range of changes for his popular domain investment playground, DNForum. One of the first changes will be the introduction of a Greek theme, to honor Dicker’s great-grandfather, Adam Panagiotes Dickeropoulos. “Just found out my great-grandfather was half-Greek,” said Dicker. “Although […]

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Frank Schilling’s DomainNameSales knows the negotiation game!

Posted by DomainGang on May 12, 2012, at 11:39 am

Frank Schilling has done a remarkable job with the communication form available through his domains parked at Internet Traffic. When a visitor interested in a domain fills out the contact form – which requires a phone number – the following things happen: An email is sent with a an encoded link to confirm the validity […]

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Domain Megadome is being built to host Mike Mann’s domains!

Posted by DomainGang on April 21, 2012, at 2:12 pm

A concrete “Megadome” is being constructed in Central Florida, to host the domain names of uber-domainer, Mike Mann. The news of Mike’s recent feat of registering thousands of domains in a single day, was first broken here on DomainGang. Now, we bring you images from the sizable dome that will host them. “It’s crazy, an […]

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Mike Mann registers 6640 domains in one day!

Posted by DomainGang on April 17, 2012, at 9:22 pm

Uber-domainer, Mike Mann, does not like resting on his laurels. The hyperactive former owner of Sex.com is known for selling domains for thousands of dollars, daily. But Mike does not sell only, he registers domains as well; this time, to the tune of 6,640 domain registrations, all dot com. Hand registrations, that is. In one […]

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Project 5k – A Domainer’s ambitious progress is documented

Posted by DomainGang on January 20, 2012, at 1:42 pm

Domainers have lots of creative ideas; if that weren’t the case, then DomainGang would not exist in the first place 😀 On January 1st, a domainer launched Project 5k – an ambitious attempt to turn a small investment into five grand: “2012 is here and it’s time to get to work. The goal of this […]

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