Qihoo shocker: Buyer of 360.com allegedly gave ‘porno’ incentives to performing employees
Qihoo, the Chinese corporation that reportedly bought the domain 360.com for $17 million dollars, is making the news again. A report about rewards to performing employees includes a variety of perks, among which is a night with Julia Kyoka, a popular Japanese porn star. [NSFW link] The alleged leak of document bonuses was made on […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Flippa Escrow: New option for completing domain transactions is free
Flippa.com, the domain marketplace from Down Under, announced the availability of Flippa Escrow today; the service is free to use for all marketplace transactions. Payment can be made using Visa, MasterCard and wire transfers, and payouts can be made to bank accounts or PayPal. While the service is free, Flippa notes that small transactional charges […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.JebBushForPresident.com held by gay couple since 2008 to prove a point
There is plenty of noise in the political circles that former Florida governor, Jeb Bush, might be running for US president in 2016. Jeb Bush’s agenda on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues (LGBT) has not been exactly supportive over the years; in fact, Jeb Bush appears to be rather homophobic. A gay couple from […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.ALERT: Multi-million dollar business domain ShadesDaddy.com has been stolen!
ShadesDaddy.com is the domain of a multi-million dollar online business, retailing sunglasses since 2008. The Miami company’s domain name was registered with eNom; on Februrary 3rd, 2015 the domain was hijacked away, and was moved to the Chinese domain registrar, Ename. Mr. Pablo Palatnik, owner of ShadesDaddy, alerted us to the domain theft of ShadesDaddy.com; […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Le Figaro: French giant’s UDPR for Figaro.Club was denied
Le Figaro is a French giant in the media industry; their newspaper has been publishing a daily edition under the historic name LE FIGARO in France since the 1800’s. Not only do they own a bunch of trademarks, but these marks are strong, established and famous outside of France. It was therefore logical that they […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Marrakesh and ICANN52: No Ebola here, Singapore people!
Marrakesh in Morocco was scheduled to be the host of ICANN 52; the host city was moved to Singapore, under pressure for the Ebola outbreak in Africa. But was that move by ICANN exaggerated or was it a valid precaution? The organizers of the Marrakesh conference most likely lost large amounts of money from not […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Chinese domain market – Week of February 8, 2015
Starting a new, weekly column on the domain acquisitions made by Chinese companies, and what a better time to begin when the sale of 360.com for $17 million dollars occurred. We’ll also include domains that are made freshly available in the Chinese domain market, in case you’re interested in making such investments. This week’s discoveries […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Domain broker who handled the record sale of 360.com comes forward!
The expert domain broker who handled the record-setting sale of 360.com has come forward. Sold for $17,000,000 dollars, the domain 360.com changed hands last week, after it was moved from Vodaphone’s possession to that of the Chinese company Qihoo. We are confident that the same domain broker might have handled several other sizable sales on […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.ICANN considers limitation of domain registrations to 100 per person!
Following on the footsteps of a recent interview to Sputnik News, ICANN CEO Fadi Chehadé comes up with yet another shocker for the domainer community. Expectations about the multi-stakeholder model are running high, and the issue of Internet governance is one hot potato currently; the dessert is yet to come. According to sources, ICANN is […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.DNPost launches aggregator of domain news feeds
DNPost, the new kid on the domain forum block, has quietly launched a domain news aggregator. Aptly branded as DNPostNews, the “soft launch” of the news portal incorporates the usual domain-related news feeds, along with other resources related to the domain industry, including tweets and other social media announcements. Furthermore, the portal integrates with DNPost […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Not just numerics: China gobbling up LLL .com domains as well
The appetite of Chinese companies for numeric domains is definitely increasing; the sale of 360.com to Qihoo for $17 million dollars is merely the tip of the iceberg. It’s not just the volume of numeric domains and their acquisition prices, but the overall business attitude that dictates that a company must own its matching .com […]
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