BREAKING: GoDaddy reveals the REAL Superbowl XLIX commercial!
GoDaddy generated a lot of controversy yesterday, by revealing its Super Bowl ™ XLIX video that featured a lost puppy that gets sold online via a GoDaddy customer’s puppy mill business. Soon after, allegedly succumbing to negative backlash from animal lovers, PETA and even Michelle Obama, the GoDaddy CEO Blake Irving, called the video a […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.February 1st is National Punch a Domain Thief Day
During the entire 2014, domain theft increased to numbers unseen before, thanks to an ICANN imposed requirement for ownership verification. The Registrars rushed to comply, falling victims to a flood of email phishing originating mostly from China. Rogue domain registrars make life difficult to domain owners whose domains were stolen; although, there has been a […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Oreos: Who will catch the .com and potentially the UDRP?
As Mike Berkens noted, the domain Oreos.com has been in auction at DropCatch.com – an outfit of NameBright / Huge Domains. After other drop catching services failed to catch the former domain property of Kraft Foods, the current status of the auction which expires in less than a day, shows a top bid of only […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.The Negotiator Agency: Corporate proxy buyers for high value domains
Large corporations do not want their branding plans exposed to the public outright. When billions of dollars are at stake, Fortune 500 companies such as Microsoft utilize third party “proxy” buyers to acquire domain assets from their registrants. The case of HoloLens.com is a great example of how Wall Street operates; just because a company […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.ESQwire: Law firm assists with the return of 3 valuable numeric .com domains
It’s good news for the owner of three formerly stolen numeric domains: 224.com, 452.com and 605.com. ESQwire, the domainer-friendly law firm of attorneys Ari Goldberger and Jason Schaeffer, along with Greenberg & Lieberman, filed a lawsuit in November, to recover the domains on behalf of their owner. In late December, the Virginia court decided to […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Trademark application for ‘Holo’ : Microsoft planned ahead with HoloLens domain
Microsoft used Marksmen, a third party acquisition service – aka, proxy buyer – to buy the domain name HoloLens.com for a mere $6,750 and some pondered on the timeframe of their brand development. The domain was retained for less than a week by Marksmen, before Microsoft announced the launch of HoloLens and took over control […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Dot .CLUB Registry : It’s go ahead with Credit.Club
Dot .CLUB CEO, Colin Campbell, announced the results of the Registry’s official analysis, regarding the unexpected hand registration of the premium domain, Credit.Club by developer Bruce Marler. Clearing Marler of any wrong-doing, Mr. Campbell stated that the erroneous release of Credit.Club by the Registry will not be reversed. The registration of the domain Credit.Club and […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Nor’easter in Boston: Igloo offices to close early today
Igloo, the domain brokering company closed its Boston offices early today, as a hefty Nor’easter threatened the area. Despite being formed in New Zealand, the US offices don’t get to enjoy much of the beautiful landscapes of Kiwi-land; the latter, is reserved for co-founder, Gregg G. McNair. “It’s safety first; with all this snow we’ll […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Photo.com UDRP denied transfer to Complainant
The domain name Photo.com was challenged in a UDRP, brought forth by Fotocom Société Anonyme of Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. Short version: The complaint was denied, although there was no finding of reverse domain name hijacking, as one would expect. Registered in 1998, Photo.com is an extremely generic domain name, and it’s absurd that there was a […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Domaining Europe: Spaniards prefer their local ccTLD over .com and others
Spanish consumers registered more dot .ES domains – the local ccTLD for Spain – than any other TLD in 2014. According to a report by Internet development agency, Red.es, there was an increase of 3.46% in dot .ES registrations, accounting for over half of all domain names registered in Spain. The total number of .ES […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Brannan’s brokerage offers category killer domains in latest newsletter
Brannan’s, the domain brokering outfit operated by domain broker David Clements, has some absolute gems in its latest edition. As stated by David, there are several investment quality domains on that list, that are priced competitively. In other words, it’s a first come first served availability and some of these domains are absolutely stunning. We […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Holovisions: Large domain portfolio holder entered the field 10 years ago
After the successful acquisition of HoloLens.com by Microsoft via the use of a proxy buyer, the holography market is once again in the limelight. A domain pioneer in the field, is HoloVisions LLC, a Minnesota company formed by domain investor, inventor and entrepreneur, Robert Connor. Connor’s company manages an impessive domain portfolio with such names as […]
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