Game of Thrones .com lost in UDRP
If you’re a fan of the popular series, “Game of Thrones“, then you probably got a stiffie when Game of Thrones – Season 4 premiered the other night. The award-winning HBO series draws millions of viewers to its official web site, HBO.com. Apparently, none at HBO or anyone from its mother company, Time Warner, thought […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Name.com: Angels lose their wings when you register crap domain names!
We’ve seen some pretty good commercials involving angels, but never before one related to the domain industry. So Name.com – one of the top domain registrars in phone responsiveness – had to create a fun video involving angels and crap domain names. The tag line, “every time you settle for a confusing domain, an angel […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.DNForum: Popular domain forum built on XenForo ‘steroids’
If you have been a long term user of the popular domain forum, DNForum.com, you’ll appreciate the recently implemented upgrades. Moving on from the sluggish, slow, snail-paced monstrosity of a forum software – vBulletin for short – DNForum rolled out a reboot of its community. DNForum now runs on XenForo, a lightweight forum software platform […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Heartbleed bug: Your secure data might be exposed even over SSL!
One would think the NSA was doing a fine job decrypting petabytes of data, but a recently discovered flaw in the SSL certificate managing secure transactions apparently outdid them. Named, the “Heartbleed bug”, this software glitch in the core of the secure certificate layer is now affecting approximately two thirds of the Internet that uses […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Cybersquatting: Registering corporate brands in the .Domains gTLD
An eagle-eyed DNForum member noticed that there are several corporate brands in the domain industry, that are currently being squatted upon in the .Domains gTLD. The culprit: a Chinese national who went all out by registering the following domain names at GoDaddy: NameJet.domains NetworkSolutions.domains SnapNames.domains Meanwhile, someone else registered TopNotch.domains and is offering it for […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Sad stuff on the Street!
Did you ever come across a dirty plush toy on the street, a lone shoe, or a well-used, soiled book on the sidewalk? Many of these items aren’t necessarily trash; they could have been lost or forgotten behind; and now there is a web site to share their sad existence with the rest of the […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Escrow.com: Some customers might need out-of-the-box attention
An issue involving the provision of a bank swift code for an Escrow.com transaction, started with a big bang headline over at DNForum; the “Escrow.com scam!!!” reference was quite emphatic. Escrow payouts in euro involve the disbursement of funds via bank wire, and for that function a swift code is required. The seller stated […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Hamdi Ulukaya dot com: Chobani yogurt billionaire domain parked
Hamdi Ulukaya is a self-made billionaire, having founded the Chobani yogurt empire in 2005. In the US, Chobani currently holds a 43% share of the ever popular ‘Greek yogurt‘ market, despite that definition being loose; the so-called ‘Greek yogurt’ is called strained yogurt in Greece, where the process originated. Once a dominant player in the […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.DNForum relaunches: Domain forum ditches vBulletin for XenForo
DNForum is being relaunched and the downtime will be well worth the wait, according to owner, Adam Dicker. Ditching the good old faithful vBulletin system for a modern, lightweight forum software was a smart decision; XenForo 1.3 was released a month ago, featuring some great advantages over vBulletin. Reviews from around the web praise XenForo’s […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Virus Shield: Fake Android #1 app is nothing but a scam
If you thought that spending $3.99 on an Android app is a bit too much, you’d at least expect the app to actually do something, right? Like, deliver the goods it promises. Virus Shield by a developer calling themselves “Deviant Solutions” received numerous rave reviews and recommendations at the Google Play store; as many as […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Donuts rolls out half page ad in Playboy magazine
We’ve been waiting for this moment since January; the time that a new gTLD registry actually spends some serious cash on advertising to the general public. Donuts, Inc. has just done that, by placing a half page ad in the upcoming May issue of Playboy magazine. “The ad is sexy yet tasteful, we are targeting […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Russian ccTLD tops list of most virus infected country domains
When it comes down to the number of top new virus infections, Russia and its dot .RU ccTLD tops the list. According to data provided by Avast antivirus, during the past 30 days, dot .RU domains provided 4,563 new infections. Germany is second with 1,368 and Brazil third, with 977 new infections. Meanwhile, in terms […]
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