Australian ISP iiNet sold for $1.4 billion AUS dollars
It’s mergers and acquisitions time Down Under; the latest Australian mega sale is that of established broadband provider, iiNet. TPG Telecom, a Chinese owned corporation in Australia is paying an $8.60 AUS price per share, for the remaining stock of iiNet it does not yet own. The total cost of the acquisition is valued at […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Penis transplant : Dot .com registrant ready to cash in; New procedure a success!
Male domainers with a small penis, rejoice! It took just four months after a penis transplant, for a victim of penile mutilation to regain full control of his male organ. According to news reports, the world’s first successful penis transplant was performed on a 21 year old man from South Africa. A team of surgeons […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Domain yogurt: Sedo food truck appears at SXSW Festival with gTLD decals
The Sedo guys hauled a bunch of food onto a truck and are giving away free frozen yogurt with gTLD toppings. Plastered with decals featuring gTLDs such as .sexy, .CLUB and others, the Sedo truck can be found at the South By South West (SXSW) festival that takes place in Austin, Texas. Admittedly, a creative […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.WHOIS privacy unmasked at 282,867 eNom domains in Google Apps snafu
Long before becoming a registrar, Google partnered with eNom to roll out domain registration services via its Google Apps. While thousands of registrants opted for WHOIS privacy, some glitch in the Google Apps software instructed eNom to reveal the registrants’ information at the time of the domains’ renewal. The glitch slowly but surely affected a […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Thirty years ago, dot .COM registrations happened once in a blue moon!
Three days from now, it’ll be 30 years since some pencil-pushing bureaucrat stared at a stack of papers, then punched some numbers into a rudimentary piece of software, thus registering the first application for a domain name. Symbolics.com was officiated on Friday, March 15th, 1985 – the very first .com domain to be registered via […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Blocked resources: Google delivers some bad news for domainers with affiliate content
If you’re blogging about domains and host advertising content, or developing web sites with content that is pulled remotely from another source, take notice. Google has issued an update that has created a thorny problem overnight among web masters, developers and naturally, domain investors. The issue lies with the blocking of resources via the robots.txt […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Wall Street Journal : Domain Crime and the loss of domains and businesses
The Wall Street Journal made extensive coverage to domain theft and cybercrime that targets businesses yesterday. In an epic article covering the domain theft of ShadesDaddy.com and MLA.com – both of which we covered extensively in the past – the WSJ shares feedback from important industry attorneys. Philip Corwin, counsel to the Internet Commerce Association, emphasizes […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Dot .College gTLD prepares for March launch
Dot .College, the only educational TLD other than .edu and .education, is priming its curriculum for a March 17th launch. According to the web site: “.College is an unrestricted, generic platform for people and organizations of all types to come together for a common purpose and common future” Trademark holders will have an exclusive opportunity […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Archeo Domains: $1.7 million in domain sales during Q4 of 2014
Archeo Domains has released its fourth quarter report of domain sales for 2014, totaling $1.7 million dollars. According to the report, the most popular type involved 2-word .com domains, with an average length of 11 characters; more proof that shorter isn’t always better. Here’s a small sample of domains sold by Archeo Domains during Q4 […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.How to get 500+ connections on LinkedIn
LinkedIn is renowned as the #1 social network for professionals. Unlike, say, Facebook, professional connections are established to interconnect profiles of individuals in their respective markets. There are plenty of domain industry professionals on LinkedIn, and making it into the 500+ “Club” is not easy, because every connection needs to be validated by the recipient […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Gibson Brands found guilty of Reverse Domain Hijacking in Epiphone Amps UDRP
Who says the big guys always win? A UDRP that was filed by Gibson Brands, Inc. against the Chinese registrants of the domain EpiphoneAmps.com, was denied. The musical instrument monolith uses the brand “Epiphone” since 1939 and operates Epiphone.com since 1995. The Respondent manufactures electronic amplifiers in China, where it has a trademark for Epiphone […]
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