Koeln and CC : Two more additions to the roster of non-COM sightings!
Domainers submitting ‘real life’ sightings of domain names that aren’t dot .com, are getting busier. After the dot .US by yours truly, and the dot .CLUB, we have two more additions to the roster of non-COM sightings today. The first one, is a dot .CC submitted by Angela St. Julien, who operates Brand.Bar. Dot .CC […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Dot .KY : Uniregistry preparing for worldwide availability of Cayman domain names
Uniregistry announced its direct managing of dot .KY domains in March; the ccTLD for the Cayman Islands will soon be available for anyone to register. About 4,000 individuals and businesses have signed up for the Sunrise period registrations, which gives local businesses ‘first dibs’ to domains. Current domain registrants also have until September 2nd to […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Flippa : Relist your domain, app or web site “for Free”, until it sells!
Flippa recently announced the acquisition of Domain Holdings as its domain brokerage branch, and today they followed up with yet another piece of great news. Until now, one would get a free second chance to relist their domain, if they didn’t sell the first time. Going forward, all established web site, domain, and app auctions […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Enom’s DNS attacked; account info deemed safe
The New York Times reported on Tuesday that The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, which uses Enom as its domain name registrar, suffered a DNS attack: “In a statement issued late Monday, the St. Louis Fed informed those who use the bank’s public economic data and analysis tools that in late April it discovered the breach. […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.DNForum : Membership changes & banned member amnesty
Simon Byrne, administrator for DNForum, has been very busy lately; the improvements and additions to the oldest domain name forum are increasing daily. Byrne’s latest announcement reinforces the commitment Adam Dicker pledged, to ensure DNForum remains a top destination for domain professionals. Conducting sales on DNForum has become easier, as all Gold members have received […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Flippa Holdings : New domain auction and brokerage powerhouse
The news of a Flippa & Domain Holdings mega-merger came as a shocker this morning, and the aftershocks have yet to subside. Australia-based domain and web site auction venue, Flippa, announced that they are acquiring Domain Holdings, an elite brokerage house that witnessed a restructuring recently. The new entity forming, will be called Flippa Holdings. […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Facebook’s Internet.org initiative under fire over “net neutrality” issues
Facebook and its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, have been promoting the benefits of “free Internet access” that they offer to underdeveloped countries. The Internet.org initiative works with local ISPs in African and Asian markets, to provide access to authorized applications at no cost to the consumer. Naturally, Facebook is the #1 app that belongs to the […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Bye bye Walmart.Horse : UDRP terminated
The registration of Walmart.Horse was an alleged art experiment that challenged a famous trademark, that of WalMart. Initially, its registrant – Jeph Jacques – fought gallantly to retain the domain and minimalist web site live, displaying a composition depicting a horse in front of a WalMart store. Eventually, he gave up arguing with the WalMart […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.ccTLD galley : The Pirate Bay moves to a .GS domain
The Pirate Bay lost its Swedish-based domain, but that’s not the end of the biggest torrent site that is laden with copyright violations. Hours after a Swedish court ordered the dot .SE domain seized, the fine folks of The Pirate Bay have moved it on: to The South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands. Until today, […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Taylor Gang : First the .net, then the .us and now the .com lost in UDRP
Can’t stop the Taylor Gang guys from protecting their brand; the Wiz Khalifa hip hop outfit is on a roll. After winning the first UDRP for TaylorGang.net in 2014, the Complainant filed and won another UDRP for TaylorGang.US. The goal was most likely to establish a precedent and go after the dot .com, TaylorGang.com, a […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Shane and Ali : Flippa domain broker sightings ‘in the wild’
After Ali Zandi – who left Flippa to start his own project, Perception – another popular bushy bearded broker at Flippa is Shane Bellone. Sporting a bushy beard assists with culturing a thick-skinned attitude as a domain broker, apparently. Imagine all the silly responses they get daily, from end-user buyers that offer $100 for .com […]
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