How Cloudflare beat the Grinch and saved Christmas.com
Cloudflare provides traffic filtration, DDoS attack mitigation and Content Delivery Network (CDN) services. During the holidays, some web sites experience both a high volume of traffic and malicious attempts at bringing them down. Christmas.com is one of these busy web sites, and there are people out there who would attack Christmas.com during Christmas. These Grinches […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Raunchy .XXX video uses domain banana for suggestive emphasis!
A ‘raunchy‘ video put together by the fine folks of DNPost.com, seems to have used all the required elements for viral success: Buxom blonde: check Suggestive use of a banana: check .XXX reference: check While we haven’t seen much activity from the dot .XXX stables and ICM Registry recently, it seems they are doing just […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Crikey! Battleframe scifi novel to go on print without the .com
Domain entrepreneur, Michael Gilmour, is an avid science fiction writer. While we have not read any previous novels that he has written, Michael appears to be very excited in a video, about the upcoming released of ‘Battleframe‘, the first book in the ‘Mindwars‘ series. Last month, we put together a parody post about Michael’s novel, […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.What up?! WUP.com saved from UDRP
With three letter dot com domains remaining as the de facto coinage, it’s no wonder companies still attempt to wrestle them away in a UDRP, as opposed to paying fair market prices for them. In a UDRP filed at the WIPO, the domain WUP.com was challenged by a German company, Wengenroth und Partner. The owners […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Domaining 2014: Rise in domain theft attributed to ICANN requirement
As we’re wrapping up 2014 in domaining, it’s important to outline the effect a certain ICANN requirement has had this year. Beginning in January 2014, ICANN mandates that domain Registrars implement a verification mechanism – via email or phone – for all domain account holders. Citing the need to maintain valid WHOIS information, this method […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Breaking: North Korean hackers behind recent ICANN security breach
North Korean hackers that recently infiltrated Sony, were allegedly responsible for a recent breach of the ICANN’s CZDS and Wiki portals, according to corporate emails released today. The brazen act involved social-engineering of the ICANN CEO’s uncle’s first cousin, whose 14 year old son used the same password on his Xbox Halo profile. “It’s unfortunate […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Best Dot .Christmas ever: Uniregistry rum cakes have arrived!
Many thanks to Frank Schilling and Uniregistry for shipping a nice big box of Caribbean rum cakes to our door, all the way from the Cayman Islands. As you can see in the photo below, the creative folks of Uniregistry became a permanent part of the rum cake folklore, a tradition that has been going […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Alert: CCT.com is a stolen domain name – do not buy!
Another day, another stolen domain; CCT.com has been reported as stolen by an active member of DNForum. The domain’s lawful owner, Mr. Dean Vlahos, confirmed that the current status of CCT.com is not legitimate. Registered at Network Solutions, CCT.com appears to have been pushed to another NetSol account around December 12th; that’s when the WHOIS […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Bad economy: Russian domainers suffer as the Ruble drops against the Dollar
Russian economy is hurting currently, and it’s not because of a resurgence of Communism. In Russia, the economy is rather consumer-oriented, and traditional commerce maintains a European flair as far as Capitalism is concerned. With the price of oil plummeting, Russia’s financial sector is getting hit; the dropping exchange of the Ruble against both the […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Boston ‘Supermarket King’ Demoulas family ‘feud’ leads to domain sale
In Boston, it’s Demoulas vs. Demoulas, in a rivalry between two cousins controlling two super-regional supermarket chains, Market Basket and Demoulas Super Markets. Arthur T. Demoulas recently scooped up his cousin’s half for $1.5 billion, triggering the interest of domain speculators. A remarkable note: Demoulas Super Markets has long operated without a website, and at […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Alert: Several valuable domains have been stolen from eNom accounts
Several premium numeric and three letter .com domains have been stolen from eNom accounts, and were moved to GoDaddy. According to their owner, when these domains were acquired in the past, they were assigned individual passwords via the access.enom.com reseller portal. Somehow, a Chinese domain thief managed to guess those allegedly ‘easy‘ passwords and transferred […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.From GoDaddy to Certegy collections over a $13.17 ‘debt’
Payment processor Certegy does not hold back; when it comes down to collecting a $25 dollar fee over a debt of $13.17 at GoDaddy, they will either get their money or report you to the credit bureaus, affecting your credit score in the process. A DomainGang reader and GoDaddy customer that wants to remain anonymous, […]
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