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 © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.The DomainTools card is stellar!
DomainTools provides an indispensable WHOIS tool chest, that domain investors – and often, UDRP Complainants – use to their advantage. We’ve covered DomainTools numerous times during our 5+ years as a domain industry publication, and we’re thankful for their kind words in our long list of industry testimonials. This year’s holiday card from DomainTools is […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Krebs On Security identifies mega-spammer domains using DomainTools
Security experts, Krebs On Security, uncovered a long trail of spam, domains and hijacked Internet addresses; all the evidence leads back to a 37-year-old junk email distributor from San Diego, who was the first such spammer to be criminally prosecuted 13 years ago. Using DomainTools to identify, track and analyze the domain registrations of hundreds […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.DomainTools planned downtime causes stress, anxiety to domainers
The planned downtime of the popular destination for domain investors, DomainTools, is causing unnecessary duress on a Sunday. Thousands of visitors to DomainTools.com receive a message citing the planned downtime, and clearly this notice isn’t enough to calm down the spirits. “It’s suffocating me, I cannot breathe, the DomainTools.com homepage isn’t the relaxing, reassuring destination […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Stolen at GoDaddy and sold at Ename: TX2.com is a stolen domain – Part 2
Yesterday we unveiled how TX2.com is a stolen domain name, currently in the hands of a China based registrant. After contacting its legitimate owner, Mr. Sean O’Carroll, he explained to us how despite being a neighbor to GoDaddy’s HQ in Arizona, little was done since he filed a report late last year. TX2.com was sold […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Dofo WHOIS service switched to DomainIQ API
Dofo.com, the domain WHOIS service by French domain entrepreneur, Francois Carrillo, has recently changed its main provider of information. A shortcut for “DOmain inFO“, Dofo.com provides a quick toolkit to expand the simple WHOIS information of domain names, particularly: Metrics (Appraisal, Alexa, Compete) History (Past WHOIS, History, Screenshots, Archive, Registrars, NameServers, Hosting) Info (WHOIS, Wikipedia, […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.DomainTools releases graph of WHOIS activity during the World Cup
DomainTools, the definitive domain WHOIS tool for domain investors, has scheduled some maintenance today, from 10am to 6pm PDT. While some might think that the exact time frame was randomly selected, it’s in fact based on expert analysis of WHOIS query data. Analysis of WHOIS queries at DomainTools during the World Cup soccer in Brazil, […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Not happy: Domainer complaints about the DomainTools redesign
The recently deployed redesign of the DomainTools interface, left many active domain investors wondering about the future of their domain portfolios. While the user interface itself was practically the best ever, many focused on the lack of domain WHOIS beautification tools. “I can’t believe DomainTools won’t help improve my crappy domains, they still look like […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.DomainTools: Savant domainer shows up at NamesCon
A domainer with the ability to remember the registration date of thousands of domain names, without the constant use of DomainTools, showed up at NamesCon today. Buddy “Ray” Jabbit, a 27 year old savant from California, made it to hotel Tropicana in Las Vegas, after driving for 11 hours – far too late to attend […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.DomainTools: Expanding WHOIS in the new Internet era
With only a handful of gTLDs having gone live at the root servers, there is very little activity currently in the expanded Internet lanes. But this doesn’t mean that companies immersed in domain data aren’t preparing for the ‘Big Flood‘ – the big push of domain (re)branding that will manifest a huge change in how […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.DomainTools WHOIS: Java version to run on all devices
It’s the end of the year alright, but some domain industry companies are working overtime to present new products and technologies. Among them, DomainTools, the pioneering service and meta-toolschest provider for the active domain investor. “DomainTools will be introducing a suite of new products in 2014, and that’s a requirement really, what with the hundreds […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.List of most amazing domain names hosted on a single IP address
An important SEO mantra states that cross-linking web sites that reside on the same IP address, get less Google “link juice” than if they were on separate networks. What if those web sites are for killer, category-defining domains, however? Using the reverse IP feature of DomainTools, we located one such marvelous collection of domain names, […]
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