Saint Teresa : Finally, .com holder updates 1999 domain

A jubilant Pope Francis canonized Mother Teresa at the Vatican earlier today, officiating her title as Saint Teresa. The nun who passed in 1997 after years of caring for the poor in India, waited almost 20 years after the consideration of canonization began. Along with Saint Teresa’s new title as a saint, a very patient […]

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ICANN : IANA is ready to relinquish control of the Internet, god-willing

The United States Department of Commerce, sent an official notice to ICANN yesterday, regarding the final stage of the Internet control transition. The notice indicates that it is still NTIA’s intent to allow the contract to expire as of October 1, 2016, “barring any significant impediment.” There is no clear definition of what a “significant […]

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Internet sales tax : A serious threat to the domain investor community?

Republican Congressman, Bob Goodlatte, is currently introducing a bill enabling sales taxation on the Internet. In 1997, the federal government decided to limit taxation of Internet activity for a period of time. According to Wikipedia: The Internet Tax Freedom Act (ITFA) prohibits taxes on Internet access, which is defined as a service that allows users access […]

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Uniregistry : Cryptic message unveils more changes arriving in September

A rather cryptic message from Uniregistry arrived this fine evening, hinting of more changes coming up in September. That’s right, August is almost over, so here’s what the email from Uniregistry had to say: “Today Uniregistry released the 3 apostles build of our Uniregistry market. You’ll notice leads/inquiries are much easier to follow for buyer […]

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Aged generic .com domain remains unregistered!

Over the past 20 years, the domain industry has grown in volume and focus; millions of domain names have been registered. There are more than 23 million gTLDs for that matter, although dot .COM is still king. Domain investors eager to find valuable domains, often search high and low for aged, generic .com domains. There […]

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Chinese domain market report : Man arrested in Hong Kong scam

Cyber-attacks are causing millions of dollars in loss every year, and some of them originate in China. Corporate espionage or other activities often fund such unlawful activity. In Hong Kong, a man was arrested after causing the loss of 42 million euro to Austrian aerospace parts maker FACC; the scam involved posing as a high […]

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Paul Flammea beats CKL Holdings N.V. in UDRP over Flammea.com

A controversial act of a company seeking to wrestle away the domain Flammea.com from its owner, has been decided at the WIPO. CKL Holdings N.V. filed the UDRP against the owner of the domain, on the basis of a European Community trademark dated from 2008. Only problem is, Flammea.com was registered in 2006, before any […]

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THE Domain Conference 2016 : Cabana networking rules

THE Domain Conference is mere weeks away, and the biggest domain conference in the entire Florida is expected to be a huge hit among domain investors. As in the days of its predecessor, TRAFFIC, domainers eager to take advantage of the great Florida weather can get extra sunshine during “Cabana networking.” This exciting opportunity to […]

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Kimmel Scrap UDRP : Never let your developer own your domain!

When you hire a developer for your business web site, make sure that you register the domain yourself first. In numerous cases, the task of domain registration was incorporated into the web development services, which might seem convenient at first. Then, the relationship might go sour, and in the case of KimmelScrap.com, the domain remained […]

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Chinese domain market report : eName news “cock up” with copied parody story

The Chinese domain market is busy, despite the drop in volume and average prices, for the “domain Chip” category. China’s brightest domain investors gathered last month to discuss the present and future of domain investing, at the World Domain Conference. Recently, the Chinese government ordered popular portals to not produce their own news; the latter […]

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Chinese domain market report : China’s medal numbers plummet

The Olympic Games are over, and China has scored its smallest cache of Olympic gold in two decades. The Rio 2016 Olympics delivered  plenty of defeat in sports China once ruled, such as gymnastics and badminton, disappointing millions of Chinese fans. They also revived questions of doping among Chinese athletes, just 8 years after the […]

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Domainer Comics : THE Domain Conference Awards

Welcome to another edition of Domainer Comics, the open-ended, fun coverage of current domain industry events. If you missed any prior installments of the DomainGang comic series, you can catch up here. Today’s DomainGang comic about domains, covers THE Domain Conference awards; the industry event takes place between September 10 and 14, 2016. Many domain […]

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