Mamoudou Gassama : Migrant hero’s #domain grabbed by [WHOIS REDACTED]
Mamoudou Gassama, a migrant from Mali who lives in France, saved a child’s life by scaling up a residential building. The impressive, Spider-man skills of Mamoudou Gassama were recorded on video, and millions in France praised him for his courage. The French president, Emmanuel Macron, made the 22 year old Mamoudou Gassama an honorary citizen, […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Domain Memes : The effect of the #GDPR on the #domain industry and life in general
Our Domain Memes open series are about fun snapshots of events related to the domain industry. Some of these events are funny, others are definitely serious. For example, the much hated GDPR and its consequences in everyday life. That’s right, Eurocrat bureaucrats want to dictate rules about data management to the world – not just […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Peter Thiel believes that #Europeans created the #GDPR out of jealousy
Peter Thiel is a successful Silicon Valley executive, having co-founded PayPal. In a March, Thiel made a statement at the Economic Club of New York, in reference to then pending GDPR legislation enactment: “The good reasons are these privacy concerns and the bad reasons are there are no successful tech companies in Europe and they […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Internet divided : A consultant’s great response to the #GDPR clusterphuck
GDPR took effect today, and Eurocrat bureaucrats are celebrating their supposed newly-found Internet freedom. The draconian law is creating a divide across the Atlantic, as many businesses located in the US have set up their firewalls to reject or redirect traffic from the European Union. This measure will become more popular after the first barrage […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Got #business cards? Start tearing them up per #GDPR requirements
Data collection is a dangerous practice under the GDPR. The Europe-centric law with extremely long arms, officially crossed over the European Union borders, ever so ready to intimidate start-ups and companies across the Atlantic with its fearsome penalties. It’s May 25th in Europe already, where millions of repressed consumers are getting ready to file a […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.#GDPR : All #European Union countries to be blocked effective May 25, 2018
After nearly 9 years of daily global access to our domain industry publication matched with consistent growth, our audience is about to shrink by 10%. Thanks to GDPR and its ridiculously over-reaching clauses, a decision has been made to block all European Union traffic, effective tomorrow, May 25th, 2018. GDPR is an Orwellian dream, as […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.After #GDPR kicks in, no more data about “final notice” #domain scammers will be shared
If you’re getting a lot of email spam from “final notice” scammers, you’re not alone. Those cybercriminals often hide in Asia or Europe, blasting emails to domain owners using WHOIS databases. Their emails serve a dual purpose: to ping the recipient’s email validity, and to attempt further scamming for unnecessary services, such as this: This […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Bottom line : Nobody knows WTF is #GDPR all about
When GDPR takes effect on May 25th, the European bureaucrats that glued together this abomination are expected to get a stiffie. A Euro lawyer’s wet dream, the General Data Protection Regulation is supposedly a method to ensure that personal information remains private, and under the control of the person it’s collected from. And yet, the […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.#GDPR now 3rd least popular word, after “Nazi” and “Mother-in-law”
GDPR is about to invade the United States, crossing over from Europe, on May 25th. The far-reaching legal concoction devised by Euro bureaucrats, has strict demands and penalties for anyone that dares mess with European data. According to the latest research on popularity, “GDPR” now comes in third after “Nazi” and “Mother-in-law” as least popular […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.#CentralNic publishes white paper on upcoming changes due to #GDPR
CentralNic has published a detailed white paper on upcoming changes, all thanks to the GDPR. The British company manages several distinct TLDs and ccTLDs, including .LA, along with new gTLDs such as .ART and .XYZ. The white paper shares those changes that will define the information publicly shared via the WHOIS for the TLDs managed […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Ano Nymous : French #WHOIS shows future of #domain data under #GDPR
GDPR, the nightmarish law that’s reaching well beyond Europe’s borders, is arriving on May 25th. The European Union bureaucrats that voted into law a group of loosely connected “rights” to privacy, must be getting a boner. Among the victims of GDPR is the WHOIS, a public information ledger about domain name ownership. The removal of […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.#GDPR victim? #ExpiredDomains .net no longer offers email notifications of #domains
The effect of GDPR is reaching far outside of Europe, and Germany-based ExpiredDomains.net apparently is being affected. Beginning tomorrow, May 9th, ExpiredDomains.net will no longer send out emails with domain search results. In a blog post made yesterday without additional explanation, the one liner stated: “The E-Mail Update Service for Saved Searches will be discontinued […]
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