Cyber-catcall: Shoshana B. Roberts missed out on the dot .com
We’ve said it before: if you plan to be part of a viral campaign, make sure you already own your name as a dot .com, maybe even a variation of it. Shoshana B. Roberts, a New York based actress, made national news recently over her role as a naturally beautiful, casually dressed female walking in […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Real Estate agent does not want to be a dot .Realtor
In a brutally honest essay on the dot .Realtor availability, Real Estate agent, Teresa Boardman, states that she will stick to dot .com for now. “I think I’ll just stick with my .com domains. I can have domain names like StPaulRealEstateBlog.com and StPaulCondolife.com and StPaulPhotos.com and several others that don’t include my name, or the […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.DigikaPart: Iranian domain lost in UDRP due to copycat content
When your brand copies off another business’s name, making claims about the name’s origin won’t work if you also copy their content. A UDRP filed at the WIPO against the domain name DigikaPart.com by DigiKey Electronics, was met by a surprising claim by the Respondent. DigikaPart was registered in Iran and appears to be providing […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Same, but different: Sedo gets a redesign
Sedo has redesigned its homepage and content pages, giving them a much-needed “facelift.” The new design is not responsive, and the homepage places emphasis on the new direction in the domain industry, that of gTLDs. Below the masthead, domain listings are displayed, which refresh every few seconds – a nice touch. Inner pages more or […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.UDRP for Banksy.com dropped after Complainant was revealed to be an impostor!
A UDRP that was filed against the owner of the domain name Banksy.com, was dropped by the arbitrator at the WIPO, who issued a partial reimbursement of the UDRP fees. While no details were revealed by the UDRP documents, the sleuths at The Register contacted the owner of the domain, who shared some shocking info. […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Juan Diego Calle: LinkedIn profile status ‘unemployed’
After founding and selling .CO Internet S.A.S. to Neustar for several million dollars, Juan Diego Calle is currently in dire straits. Despite the huge success of dot .CO domain names, Juan Diego Calle’s personal story is heart-breaking; his LinkedIn profile clearly states “Unemployed“. We ran across Juan Diego in a house for the poor and […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Insomniacs: Sedo, Afternic and NameJet domain sales listings make great bed time reads
If you suffer from insomnia, you are not alone; about 22% of all American adults suffer from a chronic bout of lack of sleep. A shocking 48% reports having insomnia occasionally, and the number goes up as the use of tablets and smart phones at bed time increases. What can domain investors do in order […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Class action lawsuit: Get $15 for your antique Pentium 4 PC
More than a decade ago, Intel Corporation apparently manipulated the performance claims of its Pentium 4 processor; the charges brought against the chip manufacturing giant also name Hewlett-Packard as a “conspirator”. In other words, HP and Intel agreed to hype up the performance of Pentium 4 chips, between November 20, 2000 and June 30, 2002. […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Domain thieves continue to provoke while Registrars deny the owners basic rights!
A brazen Russian thief stole the domain name MLA.com and then fabricated an electronic exchange of a supposed Bitcoin sale. Despite owning this domain since the 90’s, Chicago professional Michael Lee has gone to extreme lengths, trying to prove this is his property. Internet BS, the registrar where the domain was moved to, refused to […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Miami club bouncers will safeguard the entrance to TRAFFIC
After ten years as the pioneering domain conference, TRAFFIC 2014 in Miami, Florida defines the end of an era, and the beginning of another. Co-founder Rick Schwartz, started TRAFFIC in 2004 and it soon became the de facto domain conference, attended by thousands of domain professionals over the course of a decade. TRAFFIC parties are […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.ICANN’s bureaucracy leaves Moroccan delegates hanging
If you want to achieve things excruciatingly slow, then form a committee. Several days after the rumors about ICANN52 in Marrakesh in Morocco being canceled, and two days after its initial announcement of “reconsideration”, ICANN has not issued a decision. Ebola virus fears, perhaps overblown by recent media ‘fever‘ over the potential for a global […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Ebola drama: Nurse Kaci Hickox will have to fight for her domain!
If you make the news, abandon all hope that your name-matching domain won’t be snatched. Doctors Without Frontiers nurse, Kaci Hickox, made national headlines when she was detained against her will, as a precaution; she tested negative for the Ebola virus, after treating patients with the disease in Africa. Kaci Hickox has hired a prominent […]
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