Felony charges: Former employee attempts to hijack domains from GoDaddy
The former manager of Ghost Ranch, a dining and entertainment venue in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, faces felony charges after hijacking domains owned by her former employer. According to the Steamboat Springs publication, Steamboat Today, Donna “Tonie” Roberts was charged with “theft, computer crime and felony criminal impersonation”. Roberts posted a $2,000 dollar bail and was […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.CERN: GoDaddy is the new sponsor of elusive particle
Physicists in CERN, Switzerland, have announced the discovery of Parsonium – the elusive sub-quark element also known as the ‘God Particle’. From now on, the generic name of Parsonium will be the “GoDaddy particle“, after the #1 domain registrar in the world declared its official sponsorship of CERN. Often noted for its irregular spin and […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Quick Poll: How many .XXX domains did you register?
We thought we’d wrap the week of the .XXX launch with an open poll about domain registrations. More than .XXX 55,000 domains were registered on day one and the numbers should increase daily – about half of the registrations were through GoDaddy and its numerous registrar outfits! But in the end, it’s a domain investor’s […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Go Montenegro, go!
Go Montenegro! Go! Go! Go! And by that, we don’t mean the country or the popular dot .me registry. š It seems that GoDaddy uses several registrar outfits to keep a large piece of the domain registration pie when connections to a registry are numbered. One of our .XXX registrations went through Go Montenegro Domains […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Bob Parsons message scares millions of GoDaddy users!
GoDaddy CEO Bob Parsons sent a scary message today, appropriately timed to coincide with Halloween. The GoDaddy founder used the usual scare tactics of mentioning imminent price increases for domain name registrations and renewals. The message read: IMPORTANT NOTICE: On January 15, 2012, VerisignĀ® will increase prices for .COM and .NET domains. Beat the increase. […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.GoDaddy blocks DNS queries to thousands of high-volume domains
This isn’t about WHOIS queries; something that the biggest domain registrar in the world, GoDaddy, is known to do for several years now. The newest issue appears to be complete DNS blackouts for domains that exceed a particular DNS query volume. In other words, your ultra busy web site might actually be facing shutdowns to […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Once a week, GoDaddy gets spoofed
It’s domainer beware: there’s yet another GoDaddy spoof email in the wild; this one appears to be coming from godidiaddy.com The domain godidiaddy.com was just registered today, at Yahoo, according to DomainTools – as it’s the case with the most new spoofed registrations lately. Remember: avoid clicking on any email links, always visit the domain […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.GoDaddy back up after major renovation
GoDaddy went down for almost 3 hours earlier tonight, but the #1 registrar in the world is now back up. “We had some issues with the new template layout”, said Ricky Parsons, visual artist at GoDaddy and nephew of CEO, Bob Parsons. “The image of Danica Patrick withstood some enhancements, removing some moles and we […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.GoDaddy tricks DomainTools in new WHOIS
Shocking? GoDaddy is attempting to bypass the service of popular WHOIS tool, DomainTools.com Any WHOIS queries that are performed via DomainTools.com on domains that reside with GoDaddy as the registrar, are given a URL link instead, pointing to the GoDaddy platform, such as: ForĀ completeĀ domainĀ detailsĀ goĀ to: http://who.godaddy.com/whoischeck.aspx?Domain=domain.com This is a crafty method that GoDaddy is using to […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.It’s a small world: Madoff used Dropped Domain for business venture
Mark Madoff, son of convicted pyramid scheme operator Bernie Madoff was found dead in his New York City apartment, having committed suicide by hanging himself. Despite the involvement of Mark Madoff in his father’s business that resulted in the loss of $65 billion in investor funds, it’s sad seeing another human being taking his life. […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Is GoDaddy encouraging Premium Domain tasting?
According to a domainer complaining over at DNForum about a sales reversal at GoDaddy, there’s something fishy going on at GoDaddy’s premium domains marketplace. The domain owner sold a domain through the so-called GoDaddy premium domain auctions. The seller was waiting for the funds to hit his account, while the buyer took control of the […]
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