Uniregistry: We run Santa’s domain namespace
A very creative ad campaign from Uniregistry, the brand new domain registrar and back-end provider, was revealed at ICANN 50 in London. The campaign features two gTLD assets of Uniregistry, dot .Christmas and dot .Gift, with the motto “If we can run Santa’s namespace, we can run yours.” Needless to say, Santa is pointing that […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.The old man and the stripper contest: A gTLD domain parable
Time for another editorial. Some domainers appear to be still in denial regarding the adoption of gTLDs, and for some reason have taken a hybrid approach. On one hand, they bad-mouth gTLDs in every way possible. On the other hand, they dip into the gTLD pool for “research“, or “for fun“, or “to experiment.” There’s […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Converted domainer: I think it’s the end of the .com as we know it
Charlie Jackson is your average Joe domainer; the Colorado father of two operates a local medical hemp farm, while delving in domains in his spare time. “When I started domaining so many years ago in 2007, the dot com was king and nothing else mattered,” says Jackson. “Recently, after seeing how much traction these gTLDs […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Baldrick Schwanz: Lucky owner of XYZ.Berlin talks about his freemium domain investment
The war of numbers between the gTLD domain registries is heating up; the XYZ Registry gave out 133,000 .XYZ domains in a Network Solutions promotion and now other domain registries follow suit. The proud German registry of dotBerlin launched a short-lived promo on dot .Berlin domains that didn’t last long, after Sedo sweethearts DomCollect tried […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Photoshop trademark: Will this be the first .XYZ domain UDRP?
Trademarks are meant to be enforced, or they risk becoming genericized; it happened with aspirin and others. Despite the recent (ab)use of “Photoshop” as a lower case verb indicating retouching of a photo or image, it is still very much a live trademark of Adobe, Inc. It comes as a surprise that Photoshop.XYZ is flat […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Stihl: First .CEO UDRP ends with a gTLD domain transfer
The domain name Stihl.CEO was lost in a UDRP.
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.HosterStats: 85% of the XYZ websites have an IP associated with the Virgin Islands
HosterStats, a long-standing authority on facts and figures related to domains and web sites, has published some interesting metrics about the development status of various gTLDs. Despite claims of ongoing development of XYZ domains into active web sites, a very low adoption rate is demonstrated by the HosterStats figures; currently only 1% of XYZ domains […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.It’s .CLUB against .XYZ in email spat between the two CEOs
The gTLD domain industry is heating up, after email messages were exchanged between Daniel Negari, CEO of .XYZ and Colin Campbell, CEO of .CLUB. According to a message posted by Colin Cambell at Rick Schwartz’s blog, Daniel Negari expressed his strong displeasure over recent comments by sending Campbell this email titled, “Ethics”: “Wow – Your […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.ICANN: Zone file system planned downtime
If you’re getting the latest zone file stats for gTLDs, you’re most likely aware of the controversy over the XYZ numbers. Regardless, the system, provided by ICANN to allow access to the Registries’ zone files, will undergo some down time. According to a notification email: The Centralized Zone Data Service (CZDS) website will undergo planned […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Tim Schumacher on .XYZ: How to know you really fucked up!
After reading Ron Jackson’s editorial on the XYZ “scandal”, Tim Schumacher, co-founder and former long-term CEO of Sedo.com stated: “A behavior like this is truly something I don’t miss, being out of the domain industry now for over two years… And on a side note: if even Ron Jackson, one of the kindest and nicest […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Flippa seller using artificial dot XYZ numbers to promote domains!
Pumped by an unprecedented promotion by Network Solutions, the registration numbers of dot .XYZ appear to have crossed the 100,000 threshold. As debunked by many reputable domain analysts, such as Mike Berkens, Kevin Murphy and Ron Jackson, these numbers should not be counted as valid domain registrations. Unfortunately, the damage to the general interest in […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Dyslexic domainers find paradise in gTLD names domains
The proliferation of gTLD domains has been a boon for many forward-thinking domain investors, who go after meaningful, keyword+gTLD strings. Another side of the gTLD success is the proliferation of its use among domainers, investors and end-users suffering from dyslexia. Indeed, combinations such as stool.bar, stop.rest and domainers.social are prime examples of reversed linguistic order; […]
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