XYZ : To the top of Kilimanjaro with the help of a Domainer ‘sherpa’
Despite a stingy situation that involves a lawsuit filed against it by Verisign, the XYZ Registry is gearing up to ascend new peaks. Last month, we covered the upcoming climbing of Mount Kilimanjaro by iron-kneed domainer, Ian Clark. Ian’s attempting to climb the tallest mountain in Africa, hoping to raise money for WaterSchool. One cannot […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Cars.com domain name sale valued at $872 million dollars!
Domain investor George Kirikos has uncovered what appears to be the highest ever valuation for a domain name. The entire business behind Cars.com, which was valued at $2.5 billion dollars last year, includes a monetary reference of “intangible assets” – or, the very domain name, Cars.com. Its valuation in the documents filed with the US […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.SwipeMy.Pics : Instagram web app a huge endorsement for Uniregistry gTLD
A new web app uses the gTLD domain name, SwipeMy.Pics to deliver an easy to use method of viewing Instagram photos. By accessing SwipeMy.Pics on the web, whether on your PC or mobile device, you can move through an Instangram account’s photos by swiping left and right; zoom is available by double-tapping. Created by ACNE, […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Germany vs Italy: Alessandro.com was saved in self-represented UDRP!
Alessandro.com, a domain registered in 1998 by an American of Italian descent, was challenged in a UDRP by Alessandro International GmbH of Düsseldorf, Germany. The domain’s registrant, Alessandro Gualandi of New York, represented himself against the Complainant’s legal team, and won the case. How could he not, when he used the domain that matches his […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Axero: John Berryhill wins another UDRP over an aged dot .com domain
Domain attorney John Berryhill is known for his sense of humor, and for the relentlessness when responding to UDRP cases. In a case involving the aged domain name Axero.com, the Complainant, Axero Solutions LLC, asserted that the domain Axero.com was rightfully theirs. The domain was registered in 2004 and it’s currently being offered by its […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Kazam! World’s slimmest phone uses a .Mobi domain
Remember the sale of Flowers.mobi for $6,500? That was a while ago, and while the dot .mobi TLD has lost a lot of domain registrations since, it doesn’t mean it serves no purpose. Take, for example, the launch of the Kazam Tornado 348, the world’s slimmest phone, at 5.15mm thick. Googling “Kazam” returns Kazam.mobi as […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Uniregistry: BestCoin, WebCoin or GoldCoin? Take your trademark pick!
Since 2014, Uniregistry has been offering the use of Topcoin as alternate payment method; there is a 2/1 exchange rate to the dollar, for domain registrations, renewals and transfers. Topcoin is yet another cryptocurrency, launched after the success of Bitcoin, and it’s not the only one. According to the Topcoin website, Uniregistry is one of […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.It’s not rocket science : Domain registrar AlpNames crashed earlier today
After giving away several thousand dot .Science domain names for free, domain registrar AlpNames was unresponsive earlier today. Working with the dot .Science registry, Famous Four Media, AlpNames seems to possess a sense of humor, despite their downtime. Their homepage currently displays the following message: “Science never lets you down… sometimes technology does.” Funny. 😀 […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Blacknight Solutions : Release your inner Science geek campaign
Michele Neylon, founder of Eire-based Blacknight Solutions, is known for his sense of humor – and appreciation of good food. With the release of several new gTLDs recently, the Irish domain registrar is having a unique promotion of these new domain ‘extensions’. The use of visuals in the form of cult movie posters, is a […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Retro Domaining – Part 2 : Take me out to the ball game!
After yesterday’s successful launch of our “retro domaining” open series, we continue with more whimsical imagery, that combines last century’s computers with events from the domain industry. Seeing those monstrous mainframes from the 1950s, 60’s and 70’s one can only imagine what a time traveler, armed with a single smart phone, would achieve back in […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Australian domain registrar Melbourne IT buys Uber Global Group for over $12 million USD
Australian domain registrar and domain services company, Melbourne IT, has entered into an agreement to acquire Uber Global Group. Despite a name similarity, Uber Global is unrelated to the US-based car maker; the acquisition will complete in April, for the sum of $12 million USD ($15.5 million AUS). Uber Global, operating from Uber.com.au, asserts to […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Vote: Is this .XYZ video really ‘disparaging’ towards dot .com domain names?
The news of Verisign filing a lawsuit against the .XYZ registry is quite shocking. Not because of the variety of allegations included, but because Verisign – a behemoth of massive proportions – actually feels threatened by a gTLD registry. The fact is, that there are no good .com domains available to register – at registration […]
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