Worldwide Media wins: UDRP on X-Videos.com decided for the Respondent
Worldwide Media, a company owned by popular domain investor, Mike Berkens, has won a UDRP filed at the WIPO against the domain X-Videos.com. The case involved two prominent intellectual property attorneys, the Randazza Legal Group for the Complainant, who owns XVideos.com and John Berryhill for the Respondent. When the adult industry is involved in a […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.The old man and the stripper contest: A gTLD domain parable
Time for another editorial. Some domainers appear to be still in denial regarding the adoption of gTLDs, and for some reason have taken a hybrid approach. On one hand, they bad-mouth gTLDs in every way possible. On the other hand, they dip into the gTLD pool for “research“, or “for fun“, or “to experiment.” There’s […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Forget the ‘XYZ’ trash: Premium domain DN.com goes on sale!
Seriously, what’s up with the ‘XYZ’ garbage domains getting a marketplace of their own? Sounds like a lot of unsold inventory so good luck with that. 😉 But look at this absolute beauty: Two letter .com domain, DN.com, is now available for sale, exclusively from Domain Holdings. Sporting a surprisingly fresh registration date of 1997, […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Converted domainer: I think it’s the end of the .com as we know it
Charlie Jackson is your average Joe domainer; the Colorado father of two operates a local medical hemp farm, while delving in domains in his spare time. “When I started domaining so many years ago in 2007, the dot com was king and nothing else mattered,” says Jackson. “Recently, after seeing how much traction these gTLDs […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Domainer dream team: 11 Domain investors talk about the World Cup
World Cup 2014 in Brazil is ramping up the soccer games that will lead to 16 teams making it to the next round; the events will continue for three more weeks. Seeing how this affects domains, domainers and domain investing in general, we asked 11 popular domain investors to share their thoughts. Not everyone loves […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Baldrick Schwanz: Lucky owner of XYZ.Berlin talks about his freemium domain investment
The war of numbers between the gTLD domain registries is heating up; the XYZ Registry gave out 133,000 .XYZ domains in a Network Solutions promotion and now other domain registries follow suit. The proud German registry of dotBerlin launched a short-lived promo on dot .Berlin domains that didn’t last long, after Sedo sweethearts DomCollect tried […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Ich bin Berliner: Dot .Berlin ends freebie domain promotion effective immediately
We received this announcement from 101Domain, notifying us of the immediate cancellation of the dot .Berlin free domain giveaway: 101domain has been notified that the .BERLIN promotion that was to run until Friday June 20th, 2014, has been extraordinarily cancelled early. As of 1pm PST today, June 18th, the free .BERLIN promotion will unfortunately come […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Amazon launches ‘Fire Phone’ – Acquires the matching .com domain
Amazon started a fire with the announcement of Fire Phone, a new smart phone with extended features. Fire Phone will be exclusively on the AT&T network, competing against the Apple iPhone 5S and the Samsung Galaxy S5 and will be priced at $199 for a 32GB model and $299 for a 64GB model. Alas, Amazon […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Non-domainer on Toby Clements: “I just would like people to do the right thing”
Another person that domain broker Toby Clements owes money to, has come forward to express their anger and frustration. Terri Camp Stevenson is not a domainer, but her late husband who passed away last year was; the 60-strong domain portfolio was given to Toby Clements for evaluation, last year. According to Terri, who is not […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Domain Name Jargon : Domain Robo-registration
Somehow, the splendiferous Domain Name Jargon series – the educational thesaurus of terms and trivia related to domaining – hasn’t been updated for a while; we’re thus going forward with another entry, right as the XYZ gTLD continues to make headlines. After all, our goal is to (re)define domaining without the need for silly equations or […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Photoshop trademark: Will this be the first .XYZ domain UDRP?
Trademarks are meant to be enforced, or they risk becoming genericized; it happened with aspirin and others. Despite the recent (ab)use of “Photoshop” as a lower case verb indicating retouching of a photo or image, it is still very much a live trademark of Adobe, Inc. It comes as a surprise that Photoshop.XYZ is flat […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Moniker’s BBB rating: Will the perfect “A” change if domainers complain?
The woes of Moniker are the result of a continuing failure to address customer issues effectively, along with a disastrous upgrade of its registrar backend system. One of the oldest domain registrars, Moniker changed hands in recent years; despite the goodwill of its officers, the problems run deep. Thousands of domain names remain in limbo […]
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