Will Rick Schwartz attend NamesCon ?
Globally accepted as the Domain King, TRAFFIC conference co-founder Rick Schwartz celebrated 10 years of his highly acclaimed domain conference last month, officially retiring as the show’s organizer. NamesCon 2015 takes place in January, and according to our report the super discounted tickets will see a jump of $200 by midnight tonight; the current price […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Firefox adds ‘anti-parking’ search engine DuckDuckGo to latest release
Firefox celebrates 10 years since it was first released; in recent days, the updates and point releases occur more often. The latest Firefox release, 33.1.1 introduces the search engine DuckDuckGo as one of its search options; the setting can be modified to make DuckDuckGo the default search engine, if needed. Before you chime in about […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Chinese hackers steal more domains from GoDaddy account
After a seemingly short pause, the Chinese hackers that infiltrate GoDaddy accounts using phishing emails hit again. This time, four three character domains were stolen from an account of a DNForum domain investor, who is not a rookie. The domains are 5nk.com, 5bv.com, 5nu.com, and 5bk.com. These stolen domains were “deleted” from the owner’s GoDaddy […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.ICANN introduces Ebola-free zone for future conferences
The relocation of the ICANN52 conference, from Marrakesh to Singapore, was the result of bureaucracy succumbing to common sense. Although it took ICANN committees a full week to decide from the date the consideration was announced, they definitely made a sensible decision, according to this poll. Looking forward, ICANN is introducing Ebola-free zones within its […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Richard Lau: We are ALL NamesCon!
A quick message from Richard Lau, founder of NamesCon, on this fine Friday: “Yesterday, I posted on my Facebook status that someone had asked me if I were “NamesCon”, and I received an interesting response. I immediately thought “We are ALL NamesCon.“ And today an interesting thing happened when an eager attendee created an event […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Moniker woes continue: Registrant claims loss of $1 million dollar domain!
Moniker continues to receive some very negative publicity from its current and former customers, long after a mass breach of accounts resulted in several domain thefts. In a post at DNForum, a domain owner based in Italy, condemns Moniker’s handling of the situation and alleges that one of his most valuable domains, worth at least […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.No surprise: Nets.com fails to sell at eBay auction
It came as no surprise: the domain name Nets.com that was recently listed by its owner for sale on eBay, failed to meet reserve. A total of 31 bids brought the highest offer up to $150,600 which is still an unverified bid. The Nets.com owners want $5 million dollars, having offered it to the Brooklyn […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Former owner of SputnikNews.com had no idea about the buyer’s wealth!
SputnikNews.com, the newly launched web site about Russia, attracted global media attention after Russian news agency, RIA Novosti, announced its rebranding. We uncovered who the previous owner was, using DomainTools, and speculated on the selling price for the domain. A Russian publication unveiled today that the sale of SputninkNews.com by its owner, Ukrainian citizen Roman […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Spam scum: Chinese registrar IISP.HK sends out .XYZ spam to harvested WHOIS emails!
Two years ago, the Chinese domain registrar IISP.HK (NiceNIC) casually copied two dozen DomainGang articles verbatim. After we complained, they took that content down. Today, they sent out a spam email, promoting $2 dollar .XYZ domains to email addresses directly harvested from the WHOIS information of domains. According to Japan-stationed domain investor, David J. Walker, […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Uniregistry launches new marketing campaign
Uniregistry is warming up its irons for what appears to be a record year in domain sales and registrations, with a new marketing campaign. Borrowing elements from the viral success of the recent “Alex from Target” photo and meme, Uniregistry intends to present one new face every week. “Everyone knows me, but I’d love to […]
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