Three letter .com MSC.com saved from UDRP
MSC.com, a premium three letter .com domain that seems to have been sitting at Sedo’s transfer service for quite some time, was saved from a UDRP. Registered in 1993, MSC.com was challenged by MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company Holding S.A. of Geneva, Switzerland. The Respondent and current owner, Paul Kocher, acquired it in December 2013 through […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Large cache of LLL .com domains posted for sale
It’s quite rare that a large number of LLL .com domain names gets listed for sale by the same individual, particularly a non-broker. But in today’s illiquid domain market, that happens sooner or later, when the domain owner wants to re-invest in the booming gTLD market, for example. More than a dozen three letter .com […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Domain Cybersquatter terrorizes San Diego family
A serial domain squatter is terrorizing a prominent San Diego family, that invited him into their home as a live-in domain instructor. Javier Jorge Defuentes, also known as “el torro” – the bull – has a long rap sheet that includes extortion, bigamy and cruelty to owners of domain names. “We thought Javier was a […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Bodis: Faster PPC payments with a “Net 7” system
Bodis, the domain parking company, is introducing a new, faster payment system that will definitely please domainers. Unlike most PPC companies that pay 30-60 days after revenue is accrued in one’s account, Bodis will now be sending out payments following a “Net 7” system; in other words, just a week after the end of the […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Start-up shocker: Do you still support .io domains after reading this?
A great investigative article at GIGAOM unveils “The dark side of .io” – the article reveals how the only benefactor from the registration of dot .io domains, is the British government. Making earnings from a “shady Cold War land deal“, the article describes the formation of the British Indian Ocean Territory, part of which is […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.War over .Wine: Forbes tells France to zip it about gTLD domain names
Eli Sugarman wrote a steamy article at Forbes, advising the French ICANN delegates to put a lid on it, cork it, or just plainly drop the argument altogether. The approval by ICANN of an allocation process for the dot .Wine and dot .Vin gTLDs, enraged the French officials, who called out ICANN as unfit to […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Reverse Domain Name Hijacking: It’s Argentina versus Mexico in a UDRP
A rare automatic finding of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking was delivered in a case where the Complainant, an Argentinian accounting firm, tried to wrestle a domain away from a Mexican Bank established more than 100 years ago. The RDNH finding was not initiated by the Complainant and it’s thus automatic; the sole panelist, Dennis A. Foster, […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Two character domain Y8.org lost in UDRP
This has to be a real bummer for the owner of Y8.org, a domain used as a repository of online flash games. In this case, the Complainant is a games entertainment company based in Hong Kong, China – Web Entertainment LLC – operating from Y8.com. Unfortunately for the Respondent, the timing of the acquisition of […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Elliot’s blog reviews the ‘Goat Simulator’
Elliot’s blog contains lots of useful tidbits of information, and this one came across as one of the funniest ever: a review of the Goat Simulator – a video game where you actually play as a goat. Says Elliot: “There are some games with a complicated premise, massive backstory, years of engine research and realistic […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Close call with .XYZ but no cherry was popped!
Today we had a close call with the .XYZ gTLD – the right arm of Network Solutions robo-registration masterpiece. Willing to challenge our luck, we promised to register one .XYZ domain, thus popping our cherry like Rick Schwartz – if Greece won against Costa Rica. Fortunately, the game was decided in a penalty shoot out, […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.DomainTools releases graph of WHOIS activity during the World Cup
DomainTools, the definitive domain WHOIS tool for domain investors, has scheduled some maintenance today, from 10am to 6pm PDT. While some might think that the exact time frame was randomly selected, it’s in fact based on expert analysis of WHOIS query data. Analysis of WHOIS queries at DomainTools during the World Cup soccer in Brazil, […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Generic domain BrandEnhancement.com lost via ridiculous UDRP
A very peculiar and rather crafty UDRP at the National Arbitration Forum has resulted in the loss of the generic and aged domain name, BrandEnhancement.com. The domain was registered in 1999, and it has been renewed every year since. The Complainant, Leonhard Kurz Stiftung & Co. KG, is a large international company and a supplier […]
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