Adam Dicker lists Newfoundland.com on Flippa, clean of any “shill bids”
Adam Dicker, owner of DNForum, has just listed the domain name Newfoundland.com on Flippa. The apparent motive: Halifax.com that ended unsold on Flippa by some other seller, had a bid of $266,000 that looked quite suspicious; the seller claimed that the reserve was just $1 higher than the high bid. The Halifax domain has been […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Outbreak! Domain-eating bacteria turn .COM portfolios into .CO
BREAKING: A new type of bacteria that attack silicon is putting large, aged and valuable domain name portfolios to danger. There have been numerous such cases in the wild, indicating that the newly-classified bacterium, Domainococcus Neanderthalensis, assaults the microcode of .COM domain names, focusing on the last character of the TLD. “We are actively observing […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Operation Domainfall: Rick Schwartz finishes script of upcoming ‘007’ movie
You probably heard those rumors months ago: Rick Schwartz has been working on a ‘book‘ but little did we know that it was, in fact, a movie script! Last night, soon after releasing an updated portrait shot, the Domain King hinted of little known information, regarding the final script for the movie. With a working […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Verisign thanks Syrian hackers for huge increase in ‘Registry lock’ feature requests
Verisign, managers of the .com and .net TLDs have a lot of thanks to send to the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA). The alleged perpetrators of a recent DNS hack, temporarily took control of Twitter, NY Times and the Huffington Post UK domains, after accessing the accounts of a Melbourne IT reseller. “We are grateful to […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Really long domain names: Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.com
With a limit of 63 characters, domain names naturally offer a lot of possibilities when it comes down to branding and marketing. Naturally, the shorter a domain, the easier it is to type it in. What if you don’t want to type it in, but rather, link to it on another web page or even […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Wikileaks whistle blower: ChelseaManning.org sold on Sedo
A few days ago we pointed out that a support network for Wikileaks whistle blower, Bradley Manning, would have to change its name and domain name. The reason: Bradley Manning, who was sentenced to 35 years in prison and was demoted to private, wants to proceed with a gender change. Bradley’s new name: Chelsea Elizabeth […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.POLL: How secure do you feel at your Domain Registrar?
It doesn’t matter if you own one domain or 100,000 domain names: security is important. There are hundreds of ICANN accredited domain registrars, each one claiming to offer 100% security regarding unauthorized access. Several hacking incidents show a different picture, and apparently there is no such thing as an 100% secure domain registrar. Today’s poll […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Melbourne IT WordPress based blog hacked
Melbourne IT, the domain registrar involved in yesterday’s successful compromising of the Twitter, NY Times and Huffington Post UK web sites and domains, is apparently still the target of the Syrian Electronic Army. The corporate blog of Melbourne IT, apparently based on WordPress, was defaced and its content was substituted with the message: After this […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Unplugged: Name.com puts ‘Syrian hacker’ domain on registrar hold
Domain registrar, Name.com has put the domain name syrianelectronicarmy.com on “registrar hold“, effectively locking its update and resolution. The domain cannot be transferred out to another registrar at this time. The domain was used to share information related to a number of attacks on the DNS of several web sites, including Twitter, NY Times and […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Twitter.com domains get compromised
The domain name Twitter.com is registered with Melbourne IT, an Australian domain registrar. A team of self-styled hackers calling themselves “Syrian Electronic Army” apparently compromised the account holding the domain name Twitter.com. While there was no widespread downtime for Twitter users, currently Whois.com displays the following WHOIS record for the domain: Earlier today, DomainTools […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.New Money: A redesigned $100 dollar bill and the ownership of the .com
The Federal Reserve has been redesigning a new set of dollar bills for more than a decade, adding security features to deter counterfeiting. Despite recent setbacks that led to the destruction of $3 billion dollars worth of banknotes, the new $100 dollar bill is expected to become publicly available on October 3rd, 2013. To promote […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.OPS.com sells for $100,000
Dave Evanson, Sedo’s top “sales dog”, just announced that the three letter .com domain name OPS.com has been sold via the SedoMLS system. The price: $100k. Said Dave: “Just co-brokered ops.com through SedoMLS at GoDaddy for $100,000. Congrats to buyer and seller!!” Definitely a great set of letters for a three letter .com, and yet […]
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