Update: YN.com no longer a stolen domain; was returned to FMA
The premium two letter .com domain, YN.com, has been returned to its legitimate owner, Future Media Architects. As part of a cache of domains stolen at Moniker during a much-reported mass breach of accounts, YN.com was frozen at Name.com where it was transferred by Egyptian domain thieves. Currently, the process of reclaiming one’s stolen domains […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Our best wishes for a Happy Thanksgiving!
It’s travel season for millions of Americans, as they reunite with their families for the customary Thanksgiving gathering. Our best wishes for a safe trip to your destinations and back, if you’re traveling. Thanksgiving is a special day of expressing one’s gratitude for what they have, and for the people that made it happen. We’ll […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Nissan Motors acquires Nissan.com for $25,000,000 dollars
After more than a decade of furious legal battles all the way to the Supreme Court, Nissan Motors has acquired the domain name Nissan.com. Infused with cold cash from the recent sale of Z.com for $6.8 million dollars, Nissan Motors ponied up the remainder, making an acquisition valued at $25 million dollars for Nissan.com. “We […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Video: Name dot com employees strip down like it’s the 80’s
Ah, the 80’s! 😀 Music, clothes, hairstyles – everything was so different. Does anyone remember Jane Fonda and aerobics? Or break-dancing? These were the days of unisex skin tights, leg warmers and guys with hairy chests – think of the Bee Gees. Apparently, the Name.com employees want to relive the 80’s, encouraged by a recent […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Amegy Bank lost UDRP over a domain with a different vowel
Amegy, amogy: They are the same, right? Apparently, Amegy Bank National Association thought so, when they filed a UDRP with the WIPO against the owners of the domain Amogy.com. The Bank operates from Amegy.com and owns the trademark for AMEGY BANK. The Respondent, Wolfgang Moecklin of Germany, fought back, stating that the two are substantially […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Cache of domains stolen from an eNom account
Yet another domain theft was unveiled: A group of domains that were pushed away from an eNom customer’s account, were then transferred out to GoDaddy. Despite the Chinese owner’s proof of ownership and other provided details about how these left his account, eNom deemed the transfers to be “legitimate” and has not acted upon requesting […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Insecam: Worldwide effort to take insecure camera mapper offline
There is an ongoing effort by several government agencies to bring down Insecam.com, a web site that displays a database of insecure web cameras organized by location. Insecam.com is a domain registered with GoDaddy, using their WHOIS proxy service; the domain forwards to Insecam.cc and the content is hosted on a server in Russia. The […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.ALERT: The domains 224.com, 452.com and 605.com are currently stolen
Domain theft has been a hot topic this year; an increased appetite by Chinese domain investors has led to numerous incidents of stolen domains. Many of these domains end up at Chinese domain registrar and selling venue, Ename. Ename.com has generally been uncooperative in blatant cases of domain theft, and despite efforts of losing registrars […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Adam Dicker launches iBobble for custom made domainer bobbleheads!
Adam Dicker, owner of DNForum, has announced the launch of iBobble – a customized bobblehead figure producer. Coming in two flavors, iBobble.com and iBobble.ca, the new web site aims to tap the Joe Domainer market, with affordable, one in a 7 billion bobble figures. “Every bobblehead should be as unique as you are, eh!” Adam […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Domainer in Buffalo, NY defeats all odds at domain auction
A domainer from snow-covered Buffalo, NY, defeated all odds on Thursday afternoon, winning a premium domain auction on NameJet. Thomas Shovel, a native of Buffalo, invests in domain names and was expecting the final countdown of a NameJet auction, right as the first of several feet of snow came down through an opening in his […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.DNForum launches member Chatroom; more upgrades expected
DNForum owner, Adam Dicker, announced the launch of a live chatroom for its registered members today. The live chatroom, found at DNForum.com/chat is the first of several new additions and improvements scheduled for the coming weeks. After upgrading to the XenForo forum software, DNForum temporarily lost some of the features its users knew and loved […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Shocking report: 95% of all domains are parked
Recent data from .com and .net managers, Verisign, unveil a shocking reality of the Internet: only 5% of all domain names are actual web sites. With parked or otherwise “for sale” domains representing 95% of all domain registrations, there’s an important issue right there. “Every damn web site I visit, I see this stupid Sedo […]
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