Fadi Chehadé: ICANN 100 to take place on the lunar surface!
ICANN is currently sitting on an astounding $350 million in cash reserves, something that no other agency has achieved in such a short period of time. One can ‘blame’ it on the aggressive marketing and roll-out of the new gTLDs; with applications costing $185k it’s quick money in the ICANN vault. “The future of ICANN […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Domain conference NamesCon opens its gates offering a ‘crazy’ early bird price of $199
NamesCon aims to be the biggest upcoming domain conference of 2014, taking place in Las Vegas between January 13 – 15, 2014. Richard Lau, pioneer domain entrepreneur and CEO of several online ventures, including the Water School charity, announced the opening of “early bird” registrations. The early bird pricing: a “crazy” $199 per person! Registrations […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Movember.com: Calling all domainers to grow one!
Ah, it’s Movember once again, the leaves are showing off their earthly pallete. Did we just make a November typo? Not a typo, as according to the Movember.com web site: “During November each year, Movember is responsible for the sprouting of millions of moustaches around the world. With their “Mo’s” men raise vital funds and […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.How many donuts can you buy with $56 million dollars?
Yesterday, we described how Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry invested almost $10 million dollars in gTLD applications. The biggest investor in the new gTLD market is not Google and its billions in cash reserves. It’s not even Amazon, one of the most successful Fortune 500 companies. Having spent $56,425,000 in ICANN application fees alone, Paul Stahura’s Donuts, […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Uniregistry: Spending $9,990,000 is only the gTLD beginning
The coming months will increase the temperature underneath the gTLD cauldron to a scorching boil! 😀 The biggest players in the game have invested hundreds of thousands of dollars, and some millions; while the application fee of $185,000 per gTLD is (partially) refundable if the application is not approved, it’s still a lot of money […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.GoDaddy Halloween costume winner: Jean Claude Van Damme
Teri Dhooge, VP of Marketing at GoDaddy, announced on Twitter her favorite in-house costume for Halloween: It’s a Jean Claude Van Damme costume! 😀 Definitely a funny outfit, funnier than the aged b-movie actor who does the splits over two sacks of flour for GoDaddy. Happy Halloween guys!
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Obamacare.xxx – No pics of Michelle Obama on this venue!
Webfest Global keynote speaker, Kim Kardashian, had an online spat with the first lady, Michelle Obama after Kim’s husband, Kanye West, boldly stated: “Michelle Obama cannot Instagram a pic like what my girl Instagrammed the other day.” If Kanye meant that Michelle isn’t packing as much back as Kim, he’s correct; on a scale of […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.GoDaddy: This message will not self-destruct in 20 seconds!
With the departure of Bob Parsons from active duty at GoDaddy, a couple of changes stand out. First, they placed a total recall on the use of buxom ladies – the so-called, GoDaddy Girls – disappointing thousands of men of all ages, who were prone to order more services accompanied by images of busts. Second, […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Name.com homepage contest – Our entry!
Name.com is known for infusing mass quantities of humor in everything they do as a top tier domain registrar. Heck, if they are having a great time, who are we to judge? Quite often, Name.com posts a contest and while the prizes vary from Name.com pencil erasers to Name.com condom holders, we do it for […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Domain Holdings offering some killer domain names that didn’t make it to TRAFFIC
When we received this press release from Domain Holdings, we were flabbergasted. The list contains some truly killer domain names, and none of these made it to the TRAFFIC 2013 auction list. Why? At any rate if you are interested in any of these domains, contact Joe Uddeme at Domain Holdings. If you have the […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Wal-Mart shuts down Goodies.co service
Almost a year after its roll-out, Goodies.co, a snack subscription service that Wal-Mart introduced, has been shut down. Before the usual attacks on the .CO TLD begin, let’s just say that the Wal-Mart service displayed several issues of unsustainability, shared in the past by such mega-flops in the .com realm: WebVan.com, Pets.com, Kozmo.com were all […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Domain Guardians in exclusive brokerage of Novelties .com
A new Press Release from Domain Guardians: Novelties.com for sale exclusively through DomainGuardians.com. DomainGuardians.com are the exclusive broker of the ultra-premium domain name, Novelties.com. This category-defining domain is priced at US$450,000. Comparable sales include, Puzzle.com which sold for US$500K in 2011, MathGames.com went for US$725K earlier this year and GiftBasket.com sold for $350K in 2012. […]
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