Apologies to Frank Schilling …
Dear Frank, I tried very hard to abstain from engaging in the abominable sin of gluttony. My initial plan was to wait until Christmas day, when it’s time to gather around the HDTV depiction of a cozy, wood-cackling fireplace. As we don’t get snow in Florida, it’s the next best thing to winter we can […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Winter Solstice: Which two popular domainers share the same birthday?
They say that December is the worst month of the year to have a birthday in; one’s very personal date is lost in the glitz of the Holiday season, and its shopping madness. Two very popular domain investors, however, seem to differ, and they share the same birthday – December 21st. Domain investor and serial […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Domaining 2014: The beginning of the new gTLD era
As we’re watching the final days of 2014 roll by, the year will be remembered by the domain industry for the barrage of new gTLDs. It all starts with a $185,000 dollar application fee, and ICANN raked in almost two thousand times this amount; hundreds of new gTLD extensions went live, and the concept of […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Liz Taylor’s legacy leads to UDRP loss for LizTaylor.Photography
The legacy of late Hollywood super star, Elizabeth “Liz” Taylor, carries on; three years after her death in 2011, the Elizabeth Taylor Trust takes its role seriously. The Elizabeth Taylor Trust, Interplanet Productions Limited and The Elizabeth Taylor Cosmetics Company were named as the Complainant in a National Arbitration Forum UDRP against the registrant of […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.How Cloudflare beat the Grinch and saved Christmas.com
Cloudflare provides traffic filtration, DDoS attack mitigation and Content Delivery Network (CDN) services. During the holidays, some web sites experience both a high volume of traffic and malicious attempts at bringing them down. Christmas.com is one of these busy web sites, and there are people out there who would attack Christmas.com during Christmas. These Grinches […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Raunchy .XXX video uses domain banana for suggestive emphasis!
A ‘raunchy‘ video put together by the fine folks of DNPost.com, seems to have used all the required elements for viral success: Buxom blonde: check Suggestive use of a banana: check .XXX reference: check While we haven’t seen much activity from the dot .XXX stables and ICM Registry recently, it seems they are doing just […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Crikey! Battleframe scifi novel to go on print without the .com
Domain entrepreneur, Michael Gilmour, is an avid science fiction writer. While we have not read any previous novels that he has written, Michael appears to be very excited in a video, about the upcoming released of ‘Battleframe‘, the first book in the ‘Mindwars‘ series. Last month, we put together a parody post about Michael’s novel, […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.What up?! WUP.com saved from UDRP
With three letter dot com domains remaining as the de facto coinage, it’s no wonder companies still attempt to wrestle them away in a UDRP, as opposed to paying fair market prices for them. In a UDRP filed at the WIPO, the domain WUP.com was challenged by a German company, Wengenroth und Partner. The owners […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Domaining 2014: Rise in domain theft attributed to ICANN requirement
As we’re wrapping up 2014 in domaining, it’s important to outline the effect a certain ICANN requirement has had this year. Beginning in January 2014, ICANN mandates that domain Registrars implement a verification mechanism – via email or phone – for all domain account holders. Citing the need to maintain valid WHOIS information, this method […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Breaking: North Korean hackers behind recent ICANN security breach
North Korean hackers that recently infiltrated Sony, were allegedly responsible for a recent breach of the ICANN’s CZDS and Wiki portals, according to corporate emails released today. The brazen act involved social-engineering of the ICANN CEO’s uncle’s first cousin, whose 14 year old son used the same password on his Xbox Halo profile. “It’s unfortunate […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Best Dot .Christmas ever: Uniregistry rum cakes have arrived!
Many thanks to Frank Schilling and Uniregistry for shipping a nice big box of Caribbean rum cakes to our door, all the way from the Cayman Islands. As you can see in the photo below, the creative folks of Uniregistry became a permanent part of the rum cake folklore, a tradition that has been going […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Alert: CCT.com is a stolen domain name – do not buy!
Another day, another stolen domain; CCT.com has been reported as stolen by an active member of DNForum. The domain’s lawful owner, Mr. Dean Vlahos, confirmed that the current status of CCT.com is not legitimate. Registered at Network Solutions, CCT.com appears to have been pushed to another NetSol account around December 12th; that’s when the WHOIS […]
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