Names.com – Carrying on family tradition since 1814
Michael Walshe, founder of The Historical Research Center, can easily claim he owns the oldest family business, now on the Internet. “My family has been involved in the study of heritage, families and family lore, the fascinating stories we are all linked to, for close to 200 years. To us, family lore is as important […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Uniregistry & Minds + Machines announce Silicon Beach TLD Fest
An one-day conference, titled “Silicon Beach TLD Fest” will take place on April 21st, in Santa Monica, California. Minds + Machines and Uniregistry are co-hosting the event; Antony Van Couvering and Frank Schilling will be at the event from their respective companies. “Over 500,000 new domains have already been registered in 70+ new Top Level […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Domainer Trade Show cancels its May domain conference
Domainer Trade Show canceled its May 2014 event citing event congestion in the domain industry.
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Heartbleed bug: Dynadot alerts its users to change their account passwords
As a side-effect of the so-called “Hearthbleed bug“, thousands of companies offering services over SSL connections are now scrambling to patch their software. Among them are several domain registrars; yesterday, we published a list of those that might have been affected, including those that are now patched. Dynadot was listed as a patched domain registrar, […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Uniregistry: Domainers live longer in the Caymans
Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry has another reason to celebrate its recent launch of a domain registrar: longevity of domain registrations through better health of their registrants. “In the Caymans we have between 349 to 360 days of full sunshine every year,” said Frank Schilling. “It’s a known fact that sunshine stimulates growth, eliminates depression and leads […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Divorcing the wife? Get the domain in a UDRP!
If you’re divorcing your spouse of several years in a bitter legal battle, what a better way to get even by taking her domain in a UDRP – right? That’s what the Complainant thought he’d do, in a case involving the domain name nammex.com. Registered in 1999 in the name of North American Reishi ltd., […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Heartbleed bug: Which Domain Registrars are safe?
With the Heartbleed bug affecting millions of web sites utilizing the OpenSSL certificate, one has to worry about the domain registrars using this type of software. The safe ones – at least as far as Heartbleed is concerned – are those that don’t use OpenSSL; primarily running Windows Server software. Even if they are safe […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.National Arbitration Forum redacts name of Respondent in lost UDRP case
In a strange UDRP case involving the domain name HormelFood.org, the National Arbitration Forum sided with the Complainant, Hormel Foods Corporation, Hormel Foods Sales, LLC, and Hormel Foods, LLC. It wasn’t the obvious violation of the Complainant’s long established trademarks that gave the case away, or the fact that Hormel came down as a Holy […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Sky Diegel: Customer support from Name.com you can depend on
Sky Diegel isn’t your typical Name.com employee; for starters, he learned how to skateboard back in the day that Lionel Richie still had #1 hits. In fact, as a pre-teen, Sky and friends actually met Lionel Richie – better than meeting Michael Jackson, we think. 😉 If that reveals his age, it’s not an indication […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Bounce.io contest: Win an iPad mini for your best bounced email
Bounce.io turns your bounced emails to money; the revolutionary email product has received rave reviews and a $4.8 million dollar Series A investment. And now, you can easily be the winner of an iPad mini – if your bounced email is chosen as the best among all submissions! “Here at bounce.io, we care about bounce […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Verisign: 271 million registered Domain Names worldwide at the end of 2013
Verisign – keepers of the vault for the .com and .net TLDs – announced today that during the last quarter of 2013, five million domain names were added, for a current total of 271 million domain names. They also published an infographic on these numbers, that you can download in PDF format. The press release […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Are you that stupid? Avvo user seeks legal advice to engage in RDNH!
One Avvo user – the online place to seek professional “free advice” on legal matters – is clearly in need of education on domain and trademark matters. The question asked was: ” If I Trademark a Website Domain that is currently owned can I legally have the owner forfeit the rights of ownership to me?” […]
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