Dot .Science tops the most abused TLD list for November 2016
On a daily basis, SpamHaus reviews millions of emails and keeps track of the abusive behavior originating from a large variety of gTLDs and TLDs. The latter is calculated as the ratio of abusive domains that exist per TLD, to the total number of active domains in that TLD. Quite ironically, in October, the list […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.ICANN57 : Women in Technology is now live
The live session of Women in Technology is now streaming live at ICANN57. The ICANN conference in Hyperabad, India, continues on its second day today. Audio quality of the stream is great, which should be the case as expensive audiovisual equipment had to be shipped twice by ICANN, due to a fire destroying part of […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.ICANN57 : Corporate inefficiency cost $700,000 dollars
ICANN57 is underway in Hyperabad, India, and a recent fire cost ICANN $700,000 dollars due to a case of corporate inefficiency. According to the ICANN blog, a fire broke aboard the ship which contained the packed equipment being shipped from Helsinki, Finland to Hyderabad, India. A 20ft container with ICANN gear heading to India, was […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Domain transfers : ICANN about to crack domain crime with a sledgehammer
ICANN is getting ready to deliver a resounding blow to domain crime, by changing the domain transfer process, once again. Nine years after the latest rules of domain transfers changed, the new procedure complicates things for domain investors. No longer will a simple change, such as editing a letter in the name or address or […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.XYZ : June 2016 growth the result of “penny” promo, at a 7 figure loss
In a recent post, XYZ Registry CEO and founder, Daniel Negari, gloated over the company’s growth in 2016. Negari stated that .XYZ registrations outsold those of .COM by “over 1 million in June.” That number might be true: more than 3 million .XYZ domains were registered in June, 2016, when an ongoing “penny” promotion allowed […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Yumi.com : Dirty Chinese spammers continue to harass domain investors
Serial spamming outfit, Yumi.com, has sent out a new barrage of spam to email addresses harvested from the WHOIS of domain names. We first reported those unrepentant phucksticks in August, when they sent out emails that insinuated the domains’ owners were in some kind of legal trouble. That scamming email is now being followed by […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.The 10 most abused Top Level Domains in October 2016 according to SpamHaus
SpamHaus, the guardian of domain and IP violations, also keeps track of the abusive behavior originating from a large variety of gTLDs and TLDs. Abusive behavior of domain TLDs is calculated as the ratio of abusive domains that exist in a given TLD, to its total number of active domains. Regardless of what domain investors […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Sergei Putanov : Now Kremlin controls the Internet, stupids!
The unthinkable has happened, and United States, the de facto overseer of the Internet no longer offers its stewardship. After almost five decades, the US handed over control to the United Nations thanks to an obscure ICANN committee that fought hard to promote “the multi-stakeholder model.” Russian billionaire domain investor, Sergei Putanov, responded to the […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Domainer Comics : The End of the Internet era
Welcome to another edition of Domainer Comics, the open-ended coverage of current domain industry events. Sometimes, it’s about fun subjects, other times it’s about serious subjects. Today, October 1st, 2016 marks the end of the Internet era as we know it. Effective today, IANA, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority responsible for the global coordination of […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Father Domainicus : The Internyet era is about to begin
Greetings and salutations, my domainer brothers and sisters; this is Father Domainicus, on a fine yet smoldering hot Sunday afternoon. Many a domain investor have asked me recently, Father Domainicus, what is going on with ICANN and the end of the United States’ God-given authority on the Internet? Without a doubt ICANN, a US-based non-profit, […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.The 10 most abused Top Level Domains in September 2016
Domain and IP security sentinel, SpamHaus, keeps track of the abusive behavior of gTLDs and TLDs in general. To quantify its results, SpamHaus utilizes a quasi-scientific methodology, that weighs the percentage of abusive domains that exist in a given TLD. In August, it was clear that .XYZ is nowhere to be seen among the 10 […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.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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