Rick Schwartz : 20 years of domaining wisdom
Wow. Rick Schwartz broke his 18 month long “oath of silence”, sharing news of his 20th anniversary as a domain investor, via his blog. In a post titled, “The Rick Schwartz 20th Anniversary Post! Domain Names Then Now and Beyond,” the Domain King reminisces about 1995. “It’s been a while. Just a couple fun things […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Global Domain Warming : 70,000 domain portfolio sale to GoDaddy addressed in Paris
The 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference was held in Paris, France, from November 30th to December 12th, 2015. The so-called “Global Warming” conference imposed a strict 2-degree (Celsius) acceptable limit in global temperature increase. With this in mind, starting in 2017, all humans on the planet will be assigned a maximum amount of carbon […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Conspiracy : Small domain portfolio holder upset with GoDaddy!
A small domain portfolio holder is upset with GoDaddy, and quite understandably so. Matt Gherkins of Ontario, Canada, cannot fathom the news of GoDaddy acquiring the Worldwide Media portfolio; in fact, he’s quite livid. “So that goes to show how big fish domainers cut the line and get ahead of us other domain investors, selling […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Nameb : Typing .com too early reveals awesome domain marketplace!
We often use Namebio to research past sales of domain names; there are thousands of transactions in their database. As with everything else on the Internet, while intending to type “Namebio.com” in the browser we somehow got distracted. Or it could be due to getting older! Regardless of what caused us to type Nameb.com instead, […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Seeking new ventures : Joe Uddeme and Domain Holdings
As of December 1st, domain specialist, Joe Uddeme, has an updated LinkedIn profile, titled “Seeking new ventures.” The same profile, lists Domain Holdings as a former employer, where Uddeme has led a successful career for more than 5 years. Apparently, Domain Holdings and Joe Uddeme have parted ways. Uddeme’s profile and function still remain at […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.SilverStreak.com : 19+ year old domain saved from UDRP assault
The registrant of the almost 20 year old domain, SilverStreak.com, has one person to thank: the National Arbitration Forum panelist that ruled the UDRP in his favor. SilverStreak.com was registered in August of 1996 and never changed hands, according to DomainTools. Despite the generic nature of the terms, Silver Streak Industries, LLC felt entitled to […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Hard work pays off : TheaterTickets.com is a Husband and Wife domain project!
Joe Styler, Aftermarket product manager at GoDaddy, is an active and valuable member of the domain community. With his assistance, numerous cases of domain theft have been resolved to their owners’ satisfaction, and many improvements have been implemented at GoDaddy, with regards to security and customer service. Joe continues his successful work at GoDaddy full […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Chinese domain investor gobbles up all .BlackFriday numerics
If you waited too long to register .BlackFriday numeric domains, the party’s almost over. The specialized gTLD from Uniregistry might be used one day in a year, but a certain genre, numeric domains, is very popular with the Chinese. Hong Yu Ming of Beijing, China, is a serial entrepreneur looking to export the Black Friday […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.XYZ domains : Registry scheduled downtime has been completed
The XYZ Registry successfully completed its scheduled downtime today, to maintain the freshness and validity of its .XYZ domain inventory. “At exactly 7:30am Pacific time, I pressed the big red reboot button we have here at XYZ, and every domain was power-cycled to ensure its microcode stays up to par,” said XYZ Registry founder and […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Domain Holdings Q3/2015 report : $4.5 million in domain sales
Domain Holdings has released its quarterly report, spanning Q3 of 2015. The total sales amount to $4,536,483 dollars, averaging $348,960 in weekly sales. The average sales pricer was at $57,424. Another impressive report from Domain Holdings, and sales can be broken down as follows: USA 59.5% Europe 17.7% China 17.7% Other 5.1% Regarding extensions, dot […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.X3.com : Formerly stolen domain has been recovered
In April of this year, we reported that the premium, aged domain X3.com was stolen from its legitimate owner. At the time, Mr. AJ Alfieri-Crispin, shared the agony of witnessing the domain disappear from his registrar account in the course of 25 minutes. The owner’s Odyssey ended about a month ago, when the 3rd District […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.NameJet : Auto-complete error or secret gTLD domain?
After receiving the latest newsletter from NameJet today, we started perusing the listed domains. Lots of goodies currently being auctioned, including two letter .com domain OV.com, and many LLL .com’s in the mid to high five figures. One thing that caught our attention was the checkboxes with domain extensions – TLDs, gTLDs and ccTLDs. These […]
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