Marrakesh and ICANN52: No Ebola here, Singapore people!
Marrakesh in Morocco was scheduled to be the host of ICANN 52; the host city was moved to Singapore, under pressure for the Ebola outbreak in Africa. But was that move by ICANN exaggerated or was it a valid precaution? The organizers of the Marrakesh conference most likely lost large amounts of money from not […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Chinese domain market – Week of February 8, 2015
Starting a new, weekly column on the domain acquisitions made by Chinese companies, and what a better time to begin when the sale of 360.com for $17 million dollars occurred. We’ll also include domains that are made freshly available in the Chinese domain market, in case you’re interested in making such investments. This week’s discoveries […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Domain broker who handled the record sale of 360.com comes forward!
The expert domain broker who handled the record-setting sale of 360.com has come forward. Sold for $17,000,000 dollars, the domain 360.com changed hands last week, after it was moved from Vodaphone’s possession to that of the Chinese company Qihoo. We are confident that the same domain broker might have handled several other sizable sales on […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.ICANN considers limitation of domain registrations to 100 per person!
Following on the footsteps of a recent interview to Sputnik News, ICANN CEO Fadi Chehadé comes up with yet another shocker for the domainer community. Expectations about the multi-stakeholder model are running high, and the issue of Internet governance is one hot potato currently; the dessert is yet to come. According to sources, ICANN is […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.DNPost launches aggregator of domain news feeds
DNPost, the new kid on the domain forum block, has quietly launched a domain news aggregator. Aptly branded as DNPostNews, the “soft launch” of the news portal incorporates the usual domain-related news feeds, along with other resources related to the domain industry, including tweets and other social media announcements. Furthermore, the portal integrates with DNPost […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Not just numerics: China gobbling up LLL .com domains as well
The appetite of Chinese companies for numeric domains is definitely increasing; the sale of 360.com to Qihoo for $17 million dollars is merely the tip of the iceberg. It’s not just the volume of numeric domains and their acquisition prices, but the overall business attitude that dictates that a company must own its matching .com […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Update: CCT.com has been retrieved – No longer a stolen domain!
Great news for Dean Vlahos, legitimate owner of the domain CCT.com – it has been returned to his possession, and it has been transferred back to Network Solutions. CCT.com had been reported stolen in mid December, and had been transferred to Ename.com, a domain registrar popular with domain thieves in China. It is almost certain […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Porno.com domain seller now an unemployed degree holder!
Life just isn’t fair. The student who sold the domain Porno.com to Rick Schwartz in 1997 for $42,000 is now an unemployed engineer, struggling under the current bout of bad economy as a homeless man. Eighteen years ago, Lawrence Morgan “mad dog” Jones was a promising college student that researched the Internet as a pastime. […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Well-done USPTO: US Patent and Trademark Office web site redesigned
At long last! After years of displaying a mediocre web site, the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) sports a spiffy, well-designed web site. The layout utilizes sharp, clean font types and a contrasting color scheme to deliver lots of well-organized content about trademarks, service marks and patents. Most major links are one click away, […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.The Domain King’s numeric domains: A fine collection of NNN .com and others
The numeric domain market is on fire, after reports of the biggest domain sale of all time place 360.com at the #1 spot for $17 million dollars. Just days before that announcement, the Domain King, Rick Schwartz, revealed through his sale of Porno.com for $8,888,888 dollars that he’s about to put some of his numeric […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Zero to One: Innovation discussion with PayPal creator, Peter Thiel
Startups.CO, the entrepreneur hub launched by Fundable founder, Wil Schroter, is hosting a live talk this coming Monday, February 9th at 7:00pm EST. Peter Thiel, creator of PayPal and innovation investor, will join the Startups.CO discussion, to talk about his new book, “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future.” “The […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.China on fire: Two new transactions engage NNN .com domains via 4.CN
The numeric domain market is currently on fire, all while the dust from a recent sale of 360.com to Qihoo for a reputed $17 million dollars has yet to settle. Two domain names, 400.com and 440.com appear to have changed hands very recently. First, 400.com appears to have been sold by the holding account at […]
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