Web hosting woes: HostGator apologizes for downtime but why is the .com for sale?
HostGator, a well-established web hosting provider, faced an extreme downtime yesterday, that lasted several hours. Angry customers, irritated by the prolonged outage that was caused by a seemingly routine maintenance at the HostGator datacenter, demanded that they get compensated for the downtime. Said Sam R.: “This is not an isolated incident, hostgator provo datacenter has […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Subspace: Who would pay $99,999,999 dollars for a domain name?
Back in the late 1990’s, the Internet was still young and innocent. Then domaining began to attract opportunists; the 6:30am domain gold rush was the finest moment in the new round of up and coming domain investors, that gave birth to Frank Schilling‘s domain empire. One can still make money in domaining, and there is […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Registrar insight: What do Name.com employees do during the weekends, anyhow?
Name.com has been awarded our prestigious top registrar award, during a recent crash test on phone responsiveness for domain registrars. The company culture allows the fine employees of Name.com to partake in fun activities, that begin with a beer-fest on Fridays. But what do they do on the weekends? Name.com asked a question about their […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Name.com & Social Media VP Vic Dixon sex drive the Tesla
Last Friday, Name.com Social Media VP, Vic Dixon, uploaded a video response to object to our unbiased post regarding the objectification of women in domaining. That video, was clearly the best so far from Name.com and its creative stable of beer-fed employees. Today, what with being the last work day of the week, Name.com and […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Domainer conference: First NameProsFest a complete success!
The first NameProsFest domain conference ended earlier today in San Diego, California, after 24 hours of non-stop domain action, sales, gaming and debates. Sponsored by Pepsi, the domain conference was produced by the domain forum NamePros, popular with teenage domain flippers and soccer moms that occasionally delve in domaining. “It was cool to meet other […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Frank Schilling: Snatch you out of a tight spot with ‘Camel Tow’
Some of Frank Schilling‘s domain registrations are intriguing. You might recall that the thrice winner of the much coveted TRAFFIC ‘Domainer of the Year‘ award already owns such gems as InvisibleMonkey.com and MidgetGirls.com along with a bunch of food related domains. The ever-busy domainer isn’t just registering meaningful two-worders, however, but also brandables that are […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Domain bloggers: WordPress rolls out version 3.6 with focus on content writing
WordPress has released its updated version 3.6 today, incorporating a number of visual and functional improvements since 3.5.2. The upgrade is painless and takes a few seconds to complete. As always, back up your database first! For starters, the WordPress editor has been substantially improved, to store and maintain revisions in an effective, intuitive way […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.SnapNames chargeback scam artists increasingly affect domain sellers
A domain seller who claimed his cash balance was ‘stolen’ from his SnapNames account, is reporting that the chargebacks were reversed by SnapNames. Despite this satisfactory closure, other users are reporting that the SnapNames domain selling platform is inviting scammers that reverse their payment – some as late as 120 days later. The end result […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Greek Gaming Commission orders Greek ISPs to block 401 gambling web sites
In a move that disregards European regulations related to online gambling, the Greek Gaming Commission has released a “black list” of 401 gambling web sites to be blocked in Greece. A decision that was made on July 24th, defines the initial black list of web sites that “are not licensed to provide gambling services in […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.New York City Mayoral race heats up with Weiner.XXX domain
New York City mayoral candidate, Anthony Weiner, has been receiving a lot of criticism recently, due to the extended play of a sexting scandal that occurred more than a year ago. One of the women that the Democrat candidate communicated with, using the alias “Carlos Danger“, is apparently costing Mr. Weiner the Democratic nomination. “We […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.True Cybersquatter: GeorgeAlexanderLouis .com hits the Sedo chopping block
We must have awakened from a domainer dream. Just four days ago, domainer Luc Biggs proclaimed his plan to protect the domain name GeorgeAlexanderLouis.com from “true cybersquatters”, in a guest post at Elliot’s Blog. The exact name of the future king of Britain was registered “with no clear goal in mind“, according to Luc Biggs, […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Flippa launches ‘Words with Domainers’ as a sidekick to flourishing domain auctions
Flippa, the domain and web site marketplace from Down Under, is once again exercising its pioneering role in the domaining industry. “Our successful launch of the much coveted Flippa classifieds section, which is currently flourishing and threatening the existence of Craigslist, provided us with the initiative to keep on rolling out useful products with a […]
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