Uniregistry: End of year savings and more domain updates
Uniregistry announced its end of year savings, discounting several gTLDs. To take advantage of these promotions, register domains until December 31st, in the following gTLDs: .Christmas, for $18.88 per domain – regularly at $28.88 .Gift, for $12.88 per domain – regularly at $19.88 .Country, for $9.88 per domain – regularly at $29.88 The Uniregistry offices […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.T-Mobile creates ‘Data Stash’ product without the dot com
T-Mobile, the fastest growing cellular phone company in the US, announced the availability of ‘Data Stash‘ – a data rollover product – starting in January 2015. With most phone companies, if you max out your plan’s data you either get throttled in speed or penalized with extra fees. Along with the introduction of unlimited data, […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Moniker wins the prestigious ‘Registrar of the Year’ award
The Web Hosting and Domains Weekly announced its industry awards a little earlier this year; for the past decade, the awards are meant to congratulate distinguished industry leaders. Despite recent problems related to security and lack of customer service, the Registrar of the Year award went to an unlikely finalist, Moniker. “The Registrar of the […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Trademark applications for ‘Domain’ brands hint of upcoming services
Several new trademark applications for domain related services were filed with the US Patent and Trademark Office during the past three weeks. First, the application for ‘Raj Domains’ was filed on November 26th, for the following classes: “IC 035. US 100 101 102. G & S: Brand development in the field of Domain names; Advertising […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Dear Chinese domain investors!
This is an open letter to all the legitimate, hard-working domain investors from China. After numerous cases of domain hijacking and domain theft from individuals originating in the Chinese mainland, it is time to address the issue among your peers. China’s economy is expanding in leaps and bounds, and it’s slated to surpass in volume […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.ESQwire: WIPO to provide emotional support to recipients of RDNH decisions
WIPO, the World Intellectual Property Organization, is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland; the Red Cross also has its offices a few blocks away. The close operation of the two organizations has inspired the formation of a humanitarian support group for those UDRP Complainants that faced the soul-scarring delivery of a Reverse Domain Name Hijacking finding. “UDRP […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.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 […]
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