Bizplan Labs : Does your business plan really suck ?
Today is Morgan Linton‘s birthday; the busy entrepreneur from California has been enjoying the results of hard work at his start-up, Fashion Metric. To achieve funding from a group of angel investors that include Mark Cuban, Morgan had to write a great, detailed and accurate business plan. While anyone can claim they are capable of […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Hillary Clinton 2016 : Don’t waste your money on political domains
Earlier today, Hillary Clinton announced that she’s running for president of the United States in next year’s elections. Have you read the news about ‘Hillary Clinton’ domains being on the market, some of them for tens and even hundreds of thousands of dollars? Those that blindly ‘invest‘ in political domains need to research the market […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.FBI issues WordPress warning regarding ISIS sympathizers
There’s one more a reason that the FBI sent its representative to NamesCon 2015, aside from participating in the stolen domains debate. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been monitoring the amount and type of web site defacements, performed by ISIS sympathizers. In particular, it seems that a lot of this type of hacking activity […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.The Chinese Way: Domain Market update, April 11, 2015
Who cares if Google is blocking the Chinese-issued secure (SSL) certificates? Domain economy in China is booming, and most domain investors are serious about spending money on short letter or numeric domains. Last time we reported some big names were moved, and in the 3 days since we have some new domain transfers, acquisitions or […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.It doesn’t have to suck: ICANN allows less expensive dot .BLOWS to launch
After a massive number of complaints were lodged against the allegedly pro-consumer gTLD dot .SUCKS, ICANN, the governing authority of domain names is taking a different approach. “Indeed, paying $2,000 dollars to protect one’s brand amounts to highway robbery, and we’re going to fix that,” said the ICANN CEO, Fadi Chehadé. “Why deal with the […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Still stolen: Domain Name Theft lawsuit pending for 14 LLL .com domains
A stash of 14 stolen domain names – all of them premium LLL .coms – is being challenged in a federal lawsuit filed in October 2014. Wiley Rein, a law firm specializing in IP matters, filed the lawsuit against several John Does in China; the stolen domains were unlawfully moved to the Chinese domain registrar, […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.GoDaddy wins pair of phishing, password-stealing domain names in UDRP
GoDaddy filed and won a UDRP for two domain names that were used as part of an elaborate email phishing scheme. As we pointed out in December of 2014, several domain names bearing the “GoDaddy” keyword and trademark, were registered at eNom. Their Chinese registrant used them in email phishing campaigns, in order to fool […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Forget the Apple watch, spend your domainer money on a great Drone!
In two weeks, the almighty Apple will be rolling out its Apple Watch to hundreds of thousands of ‘early adopters‘, who will – for a change – be able to order the item online only, instead of populating queues outside of Apple stores in embarrassment. Is the technology so groundbreaking in order to justify spending […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Staff changes at Domain Holdings?
There seem to be a few changes at Domain Holdings, the premier domain brokering company headquartered in Florida. Comparing the current Domain Holdings team page, to one cached from March 19, several key players are surprisingly missing. While this might be an internal decision based on restructuring the web site’s contents, we observed the following […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.10 years of deleted, canceled or not-renewed dot .GOV domains
The Freedom of Information Act ensures that the US Government and its officials remain transparent about their activity. Citizens can invoke the act to request information that is made available to the public and that it’s not otherwise classified. A fine fella named Donald Triplett III utilized this method to request a list of 10 […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.WIPO announces ‘Advanced Domain Name Workshop’ classes
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) announced an upcoming ‘Advanced Domain Name Workshop.‘ WIPO’s Advanced Workshop focuses on UDRP case trends covering the most relevant substantive and procedural issues. The Workshop also provides an overview of the various new ICANN Rights Protection Mechanisms (RPMs) available in connection with the launch of new gTLDs. The event […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Chinese Domain Market Update: PK.com, XX.net and others
The Chinese economy is exploding, although a lot of the capital goes towards building “ghost towns” for millions of inhabitants that never move in; check out Ordos. The short letter and numeric domain market in China is doing pretty well, and we cover any sales, acquisitions or other status changes for short domains in China. […]
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