Tobacco.com has been stolen

Posted by DomainGang on May 22, 2020, at 11:14 am

The domain name Tobacco.com has been reported as stolen, and the current registrant is not the legitimate owner, Mr. Michael Fischer. Tobacco.com was unlawfully transferred away from its previous registrar, Network Solutions. The transfer to GoDaddy occurred in September or October 2019. Tobacco.com was subsequently moved to another registrar, Ionos.com. And an interesting tidbit: In […]

Filed under Domain Crime · Tagged with Domain theft, Domainers, Domains, Michael Fischer, domain crime, stolen domain, tobacco.com

Uni Naming & Registry : Get the latest deals on .game, .link and .click #domains

Posted by DomainGang on May 21, 2020, at 4:59 pm

Uni Naming & Registry (UNR) is Frank Schilling‘s TLD portfolio managing company. With 250,000 domains registered across 200+ countries and territories, UNR operates a strong portfolio of 20+ extensions representing the diverse interests of businesses and individuals worldwide. We’d like to welcome UNR aboard as a premium sponsor of DomainGang! Among the list of inspiring […]

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Deadbeat #domainer : Looks like #DropCatch user “bbb888” did not pay for Tema.com

Posted by DomainGang on May 19, 2020, at 2:57 pm

Tema.com was auctioned off for a sizable six figures last week but DropCatch did not receive any payment within the designated period. Auction winner, user “bbb888” on DropCatch apparently jerked everyone around, bidding up to $128,938 dollars all the way up from five figures. That asshole move representative of a deadbeat domainer led DropCatch to […]

Filed under Domain News · Tagged with Deadbeat domainers, Domain Auctions, Domainers, Domains, DropCatch, Tema.com, bbb888 dropcatch, bbb888 tema.com, deadbeat domainer

Denise Garner : #Arkansas politician gets her #domain name back from the #Russians

Posted by DomainGang on May 19, 2020, at 1:23 pm

Denise Garner is a politician, and a member of the Arkansas House of Representatives with the Democratic party. The matching domain to her name, DeniseGarner.com, was owned at some point by Huge Domains. Between 2017 and 2018 the domain was operated by Denise Garner’s campaign in Arkansas, but it dropped at the end of 2019. […]

Filed under Domain Law · Tagged with Arkansas, Denise Garner, DeniseGarner.com, Domainers, Domains, NAF, UDRP, grant transfer

Facebook #Avatar : Singular and plural #domains are already taken

Posted by DomainGang on May 18, 2020, at 6:55 pm

Facebook announced yet another time-waster today, the Facebook Avatar. What is basically a cartoon construct of one’s likeness, this new range of graphic images can be used to express emotions all over Facebook, depicting the person. With that in mind, both domains FacebookAvatar.com and FacebookAvatars.com have been registered for a while, and not by Facebook, […]

Filed under Domain News · Tagged with Domainers, Domains, Facebook, Facebook Avatar, FacebookAvatar.com, FacebookAvatars.com

Fake #Sedo app on Google Play might steal your login credentials!

Posted by DomainGang on May 18, 2020, at 5:44 pm

There’s a fake Sedo app on Google Play, and it’s NOT by Sedo. The app will most likely steal your legitimate Sedo.com credentials, or worse! The fake Sedo app for Android features a copycat layout of Sedo, the logo and tagline (“Buy.Park.Sell.Domains”) and its description is listed as: “domain listing and parking and buying website. […]

Filed under Domain Crime · Tagged with Domainers, Domains, Fake Sedo app, Fake app, Sedo, Sedo app, Sedo.com

#Covid19 : Trump Death Clock surpasses 50,000

Posted by DomainGang on May 18, 2020, at 5:10 pm

Covid-19 is hurting the US economy, but the human loss is bigger. Until today, more than 1.5 million confirmed cases in the US have resulted in an unprecedented loss of human life. More than 90,000 people have died in the US, and more than half are being attributed to president Donald Trump‘s lack of timely […]

Filed under Domain News · Tagged with Domainers, Domains, TrumpDeathClock.com, coronavirus

Ashanti PLC lands #RDNH finding in SpringGate.com #UDRP

Posted by DomainGang on May 18, 2020, at 12:23 pm

Ashanti PLC scored a finding of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking, in a UDRP involving the domain name SpringGate.com. Attorney John Berryhill was the Respondent’s attorney, pointing out that the Complainant failed to include communication between the two parties prior to the filing of the UDRP, that included the following: “It is my understanding from my […]

Filed under Domain Law · Tagged with Ashanti Plc, Domainers, Domains, RDNH, UDRP, WIPO

#Domain name jargon : Domainer Envy

Posted by DomainGang on May 18, 2020, at 10:42 am

Let’s get back to one more edition of the amazing Domain Name Jargon series – an endless resource of information, a true thesaurus of terms and trivia related to domaining. Name Jargon helps domain investors (re)define domaining and to define domain industry terms used in the past, and today. Today’s Domain Name Jargon entry is […]

Filed under Name Jargon · Tagged with Brent Oxley, Domain Name Jargon, Domainer Envy, Domainers, Domains, Name Jargon, Oxley domains

Katrina Szish: Fox News journalist won their matching .com #domain via the UDRP process

Posted by DomainGang on May 17, 2020, at 2:49 pm

Katrina Szish is an American television personality, broadcaster and journalist, and currently a regular contributor on Fox Business Network and the Wendy Williams Show. She registered her domain name in 2007. Having a unique name is a magnet for unscrupulous cybersquatters who registered the matching .com domain, KatrinaSzish.com, when the journalist let it expire in […]

Filed under Domain Law · Tagged with Domainers, Domains, Katrina Szish, KatrinaSzish.com, UDRP

Offer $250 : Owner of crap #domains blames the #Coronavirus for string of bad sales

Posted by DomainGang on May 15, 2020, at 5:26 pm

“The Coronvirus is to blame,” says domainer Samuel Al Bakiri, as his domain sales have dwindled down. The Lebanese domain investor from Texas is upset with the local government’s decision to close down businesses, as lack of investor capital has affected his domain sales. “Obviously, it’s not my fault, as my domain names are superb,” […]

Filed under Domain News · Tagged with Domainers, Domains, Samuel Al Bakiri, coronavirus domains, crap domains

#FirstPlace has sold Vehicle.com to Brent Oxley

Posted by DomainGang on May 15, 2020, at 11:10 am

Brent Oxley strikes again; the multimillionaire entrepreneur has acquired the top notch domain name, Vehicle.com. The seller appears to be First Place Internet, Inc., a domain assets holding company. A previous version of this post erroneously stated that the seller is Digimedia – we regret the error. There is no official quote about the amount […]

Filed under Domain News · Tagged with Brent Oxley, Domainers, Domains, FirstPlace, Vehicle.com, vehicle domains

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