Domainer interview : Meet Edward Zeiden, Senior Director of NamePros
With almost one million members, NamePros is the largest domainer community forum on the Internet. We are pleased to be interviewing Edward Zeiden, Senior Director of the community, who shares with us a lot of details about his background, function and the future of NamePros. DomainGang: Edward, please share some information about your background as […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.MD.ca : Adam Dicker inks domain deal with Canadian clinic
Canadian domain investor, Adam Dicker, knows well that it’s not always about the domain sale. With numerous domain sales under his belt, Adam Dicker owns a strong portfolio of short .CA domains, one of which is MD.ca. Many domain investors go after an outright sale of premium assets, but in this case Adam Dicker is […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Domains 2.0 : Verisign extends length, adds underscore in names
Verisign, the managers of dot .com and .net domain names announced the expansion of the aged domain system, introducing two new important features. Aiming at improving both the length and the girth of domain size, Verisign’s implementation of “Domain 2.0” is a masterpiece of efficient coding. “We expanded the domain microcode and its com/net core […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Uniregistry : Servers received code updates
Uniregistry rolled out code updates to the Registry’s servers earlier tonight, and those that were caught either logged in or on the middle of a function, experienced a sudden yet short downtime. A message was displayed at the Uniregistry account page, informing customers of the ongoing changes: “We’re deploying shiny new code to our servers. […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Domain bust : 50 Cent recalls his glory days ‘in da .CLUB’
Rapper 50 Cent recalls his glory days of promoting the launch of dot .CLUB a little over a year ago, as funds are now tight. “I got busted yo, in trouble with dis stupid law, nomsayin, disrespected for no reason yo can’t say how bad I is!” exclaimed the formerly rich rapper. In today’s news, […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Dot .XYZ zone files : Domain registrations are rising slowly
For the past several weeks we’ve been monitoring the numbers of dot .XYZ domains; the controversy spawned last year by a Network Solutions robo-registration campaign makes the #1 new gTLD a very interesting case. With tens of thousands of .XYZ domains assigned for free to owners of matching .com domains, Network Solutions created a stash […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.NamePros : Are your domain transactions using PayPal safe?
PayPal has received criticism all along, for not supporting cases of fraud involving “intangible assets“, such as domain names and software. Effective July 1st, a change in PayPal rules expands coverage to intangible objects such as software, but mostly protects the buyer – not the seller. A long thread over at NamePros describes the plight […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Elequa domains : NNNN .com and LLLL .com domain list at FMA
Last month we covered the select domain portfolio of NNNN .net domains owned by Future Media Architects. The company manages the domains of popular domain investor Elequa, who has been liquidating LLL .com and NNNN .com domains with the help of Chinese domain brokers. Many domain investors are curious to know what type of gems […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.The Kardashian and Jenner girls filed multiple UDRPs against domain squatters
Registering the names of celebrities is not a practice that we recommend to domain investors. Despite the good intentions behind the CaitlynJenner.com case, this type of activity is risky and can lead to a UDRP regardless of intentions. Indeed, several pending UDRP cases involving the names of Kardashian and Jenner girls are currently handled by […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Wiley Rein : Law firm secures large stash of 14 formerly stolen domains for client
Attorney David E. Weslow, partner with the Wiley Rein IP law firm announced that a large stash of domains that were stolen and moved to the Chinese domain registrar, Ename, has been reclaimed. The lawsuit was filed late last year and involved 14 valuable domain names, most of them LLL .coms. The client and lawful […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.PHHH! Four letter .com lost in UDRP despite extra ‘H’ letter!
The UDRP for the four letter domain PHHH.com was covered by Elliot back in May; the domain was seemingly ‘innocent‘, and yet, it was contested at the World Intellectual Property Organization. One of the fundamental elements of a UDRP is the necessity of the Respondent to respond. There is very little chance that a domain […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.XYZ ‘drama’ : Dot .com owner upset over domain name they did not receive
Despite having several thousand domains in pending delete, dot .XYZ is still the top new gTLD with more than one million domain registrations, according to ntldstats. The difference in numbers – a hefty 200,000 .XYZ domains – is due to the annual drops, after a Network Solutions robo-registration campaign occurred this time, last year. While […]
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