Adam Dicker’s iBobble video song became a huge hit
Adam Dicker‘s latest venture is about bobblehead figures. The Canadian domain investor launched iBobble.com in November, just in time for the Holiday season. And now, it’s time for the iBobble video song – already a huge hit among Adam’s family and friends. It could easily make it to the #1 of domainer charts before the […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Star Wars: ‘The Force Awakens’ domains already snatched by squatters
Poor Disney Enterprises. As soon as they announced the names of several characters from the upcoming “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” movie, they got registered. To be fair, Disney managed to register TheForceAwakens.com before announcing the title of the movie, and that’s the smart way to go these days; get the dot .com before anything […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.More stolen domains: ERKZ.com and 4LQ.com were snatched from GoDaddy
Ename is the de facto registrar of choice for Chinese domain hackers; once they steal domains, they move them to Ename, which is infamous for ignoring requests to return domains. Two more domain names, ERKZ.com and 4LQ.com were stolen at GoDaddy and moved to Ename; their legitimate owner alerted us that both domains are still […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.DomainIQ crashed on WHOIS lookup; Finnish moose to the rescue!
DomainIQ is an online domain tool that provides extensive domain intelligence, not just good old plain WHOIS information. Accessible from DomainIQ.com, the tool is a service by Estibot, the brainchild of Finnish programmer, Esa-Pekka Palvimaki. The API provided by DomainIQ is being used by DoFo, Francois Carrillo’s WHOIS lookup platform, and although it’s quite stable, […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.ALERT: The domain EXF.com is currently stolen – Do not buy!
The domain name EXF.com has been stolen, following the usual route from GoDaddy to the Chinese domain registrar, Ename. The presumably Chinese domain thief showed extreme interest in the domain, as it was first stolen three weeks ago and was pushed to another GoDaddy account. At the time, its owner notified GoDaddy about the domain […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.UDRP settled: PPC advertising *is* a bona fide use for domains
In a UDRP for the domain Kubex.com, the Complainant attempted to wrestle the domain away from its registrant, predating the “KUBEX” trademark by 11 years. Represented by the Zak Muscovitch law firm, the Respondent noted: “Respondent could not have registered the domain name in bad faith because Respondent’s registration of the domain name predates by […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Reddit wars: Domainers are angry and won’t take it anymore!
Just a day after the exposure of strong anti-domainer sentiment on the popular time-waster destination Reddit, domainers themselves are going on the offensive. “Those pimply kids at Reddit have no clue about domains, don’t waist [sic] any time trying to educate them,” wrote user Joe755x on the popular forum, NamePros. “I mean, fine if you […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Domain Security: GoDaddy increases length of validation codes
No domain registrar in the world cares more about domain security than GoDaddy. If your domains were stolen and moved to some Chinese or Russian domain registrar, that’s because you were stupid enough not to turn two-factor authentication on. The requirement to punch in a “validation code” sent to your phone via SMS is a […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Out of Curiosity: Bobak Ferdowsi of NASA finally puts his domain to good use!
Remember Bobak Ferdowsi? He made history with NASA in 2012, as the JPL engineer sporting a memorable “mohawk” hairstyle, celebrating the successful mission of Curiosity on Mars; he was quickly dubbed “the Mohawk guy.” When his name got squatted as a .com, Bobak did not succumb to the $500 dollar selling price. The domain still […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.No love for domainers in unfortunate Reddit thread
A domainer intending to “educate” the Reddit masses on how to buy and sell domains, received nothing but scorn and derogatory comments. It didn’t help that the thread starter declared owning at some point more than 1,000 domains, something that in the eyes of many is an instant pass to being a cybersquatter. “You’re a […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Big year ahead: NamesCon mentioned in article by The Register
NamesCon is barely a month away; the biggest domain conference is already well over 500 confirmed registrations, with a goal to surpass 800 attendees. Domain conferences rarely make the news outside of the domain industry, but NamesCon broke new ground after getting coverage from British tech publication, The Register. In an article covering re recent […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Ebola.com goes offline
The web site at Ebola.com is currently offline, generating speculation about what is going on with one of the most controversial domains in recent memory. Just a week ago, Ebola.com was relaunched with a redesigned logo and content, although the overall aesthetic result left a lot to be desired. Ebola.com is still registered at Moniker, […]
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