Party like it’s 2007 : Fischer, Goldberger and the Moniker domain auction
NBC News covered a domain auction organized by Moniker in 2007, presenting “dramatic” coverage of live activity by bidders Ari Goldberger and Larry Fischer. The blast from the past article describes the action and aspirations of domain investors 8 years ago: Someone else makes a bid for $120,000. Fischer and Goldberger up the ante, and […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Worldwide Media lands ultimate ‘joint ventures’ gTLD domain!
Worldwide Media, Inc. is a large domain portfolio holder, operated by domain investor and attorney Michael “Mike” Berkens, who operates the popular domain blog The Domains. Mike is actively involved in the research and business development of new gTLDs, as the co-founder and Managing Director of Right of The Dot, along with Monte Cahn. The release […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Gmail and domains : Phishers using SMS to hijack your account!
In the past year and a half, a lot of domain names were stolen from their lawful owners by phishing emails. By sending emails posing as legitimate communication from a domain registrar, cybercriminals manage to obtain a domain owner’s user name and password. Without two way authentication enabled at the registrar level, one is at […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Ketchup porn ? Expired German domain leads Heinz users to nude images
Ketchup is a popular condiment around the world, and Heinz makes probably the best tomato ketchup there is. A year ago, Heinz launched a campaign in Germany and placed a domain link with assorted QR code on the label of ketchup bottles. The web site was about allowing visitors to design their own creative labels; […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.TheNew10 : Plans for a redesigned $10 dollar bill failed at domain registration level
Someone should give the US Treasury some marketing and branding tips as they apply to domain names. The upcoming redesigned $10 dollar bill isn’t due for circulation until 2020; in the meantime, there is a twitter campaign using the hashtag #TheNew10. The plan of the US Treasury is to select a prominent American woman for […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.More than 700 domain applications : Dot .BANK enters General Availability next week
The General Availability period of Dot .BANK is five days away; the June 24th launch is highly anticipated by a number of large financial institutions, that have applied for their brands and names in the dot .BANK gTLD. Dot .BANK is the result of two years of proactive action by the fTLD Registry’s coalition to […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Matt Cutts : Google to block all web sites and domains except for Google.com
In a shocking announcement earlier today, Google SEO ‘baron’, Matt Cutts, announced the immediate roll-out of Google Wolf 1.0. Substituting cute names like Google Panda, and Google Penguin, the new Google Wolf 1.0 removes all web sites, domains, links and other useless content from Google. The only result to remain on Google, will be Google.com, […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.‘In the wild’ domains : New website by The Domain Name Association launches
We often post photos of domain name instances in public, that are non-COM, and our roster of such ccTLDs and TLDs is growing. Not to be outdone, The Domain Name Association (theDNA) is launching a new web site, according to .CLUB officer Jeff Sass, who is on the board of directors at DNA. The launch […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Uniregistry Market : A window to a portfolio of 500,000 reserved domains opens!
Uniregistry announced its reserved domain marketplace opening today; aptly named: Uniregistry Market. Interfacing with at least 25 Registrars currently, the Uniregistry Market creates a distribution network for a little over 500,000 domain names that were previously reserved. Vern Jurovich, Chief Operating Officer at Uniregistry, told us that the current lot comprises of the North Sound […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Civil rights attorney, Lisa Bloom, registered several .ATTORNEY and .LAWYER domains
Lisa Bloom is an experienced attorney, specializing in civil rights, divorce, and employment law. She has appeared as an expert guest on many television shows and news channels. Lastly, she’s married to domain investor Braden Pollock, which makes things a tad more interesting to domainers. 😀 In a recent post for Rightside, Lisa Bloom “admits” […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Zone file records for .XYZ domains drop below the 860,000 mark
It’s been a week since we reported the apparent reversing of dot .XYZ domain registrations. In a nutshell: Dot .XYZ domains did not reach the projected and anticipated “magic” number of 1,000,000 registrations, despite wishful thinking by the XYZ Registry. Instead, several thousand .XYZ domains began to drop, and the current numbers show a downwards […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Part 6 : More Elequa LLL .com domains make it to the Chinese market
It’s been several days that FMA.com, the web site of legendary domain investor, Thunayan K. AL-Ghanim (Elequa) is down. We aren’t sure why, but Elequa was made aware of this downtime a few days ago. Some other major web sites, such as Ibiza.com, share the same DNS and are also down. Meanwhile, the flow of […]
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