Funky and weird gTLD domains: What were these registrants thinking?
There is not much to say about gTLDs, other than they are here to stay. Whether you like it or not, there is plenty of action across the first 21 gTLDs, with more than 140,000 registered in less than three weeks. Some of these domains, however, leave a lot to be desired. The response would […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Domain data: Updated gTLD totals for February 21, 2014
There are many ways to gauge the performance of new gTLDs, but the best way is to track their absolute numbers. The first group of gTLDs went into landrush less than three weeks ago, and thousands of domains have been registered since. Somehow, one cannot possibly believe these are all registrations made by domain investors, […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.O, Canada! USA loses crucial hockey game, Adam Dicker parties on!
Canada beat USA 1 – 0, in a crucial hockey match between the world’s top two teams, for the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Canadian domainers are very passionate about their teams, and DNForum founder, Adam Dicker, could not be happier: “Canada beats USA 1-0 to advance to Gold Medal game! I love the USA […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.WhatsApp, Facebook? Interview with the man who sold the .com – Not for $19 billion dollars!
Leroy de Rouwe registered the domain name WhatsApp.com in 2008, as a “brand moment”, motivated by the rising usage of tablets and mobile phones. Surely, nobody can predict the future, including how popular the WhatsApp application would eventually become; Facebook eventually acquired WhatsApp for $19 billion dollars in cash and stock. But let’s go back […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Namecheap hit with a DDoS attack
Domain registrar Namecheap faced some serious network problems earlier today, after being hit with a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. After almost six hours of problematic connectivity, Namecheap appears to have regained control of the situation. According to status.namecheap.com, the problem started around 11am EST: To our regret most of our Free DNS and […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.White spaces: Bounce.io turns digital email junk into a gold mine
Bounce.io CEO, Scott Brown, attended NamesCon – the best new domain conference of 2014 – and pitched a very interesting new email product at select attendants. Essentially, Scott Brown’s company, processes several billion bounced emails every month; about 60% of it gets opened. Instead of displaying a bunch of cryptic messages, Bounce.io replaces the content […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Gaijin UDRP winner: “Ended with a whimper, not with a bang”
A while ago we broke the news of a successful UDRP defense of the aged domain, Gaijin.com, against predatory giant Gaijin Entertainment. Not only did the domain remain in the hands of its long term registrant and owner, Brandon Harris, but the case was withdrawn at the WIPO. Brandon Harris is a senior designer for […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Eight key points of a gTLD hater’s profile!
Dissenting boys and girls, there’s no need to be upset by the way things are changing in the domain namespace. As mandated by ICANN, gTLDs are not an experiment of a couple of new extensions, they are a relentless tsunami and are here to stay. Better take a deep breath if you don’t plan to […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.WhatsApp acquired by Facebook for $16 Billion: A Dutch domainer cries tonight!
WhatsApp, a popular app has been acquired by Facebook for an insane $16 Billion dollars in combined stock and cash, along with as much as an extra $3 Billion in restricted stock units for the WhatsApp founders. According to sources, the cash part is $4 billion dollars! The story gets even more interesting, as WhatsApp […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Dot .Photography: Finally, photographers wake up, but is it already too late?
An article over at Lensvid – an online magazine covering the collective class of photographers, photography and equipment – has posted an article on the new gTLDs available to photographers. Since the article title bears the word “exclusive” next to its “New Domain Names for Photographers” title, we assume that not many publications covering photography […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Nigerian entrepreneurs thrive on news of Internet gTLD expansion
So far, the Internet namespace expansion appears to be a monumental venture into the gold mines of the early 90’s, when the dot .com era was in its infancy. More than 20 years have passed, and the evolution of the TLDs as gTLDs continues to thrive, creating explosive new markets in its wake. One such […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Another Page Howe special as gTLD convert snaps important single letter domain; Mark Hershiser does too!
We told you so: the time would come that doubting Thomases would accept the word of the Domain Lord – to paraphrase Father Domainicus. 😀 In all truth, the game hasn’t even started yet, but since we covered Page Howe and others yesterday, we took a better look at this gTLD convert’s recent acquisitions. Page […]
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