Turakhia brothers: Millionaire investors focusing on gTLD domains
Brothers Bhavin Turakhia and Divyank Turakhia are barely into their thirties, and yet, the Indian entrepreneurs became multi-millionaires, after Endurance International Group acquired the web business part of Directi for approximately $100 million dollars. A fresh article in the Economic Times of India, details the early steps of the two brothers, beginning with a small […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Indian technocrats unhappy with the success of dot .Guru
Thousands of professionals from India, are quite unhappy with the newfound success of dot .guru, one of several new gTLDs launched by Donuts, Inc. The name “Guru”, is a special reference to “master”, “teacher” and “guide” and those that share that first name might claim they don’t feel special all of a sudden. “How can […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Government censors at work: Mass filtration of XXX web sites in India
The government of India issued a mass filtration directive for numerous web sites that facilitate the exchange of pornography. The Department of Telecom has instructed more than 150 Indian ISPs to re-route traffic to 39 web sites, some of which share non-pornographic content as well. Adult pornography is not banned in India, but apparently, the […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.No porn domains in India
Pornographic domain names are not allowed in India, where an anti-obscenity law instructs domain registrars to block such registrations. In a case involving 36 .in domain names that somehow avoided this blockade, the operators of those active web sites uploaded pornographic movies, making them available to the public. The Times of India mentions that police […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Indian Domainer gets triple gift on 12.12.12
Indian domain investor and developer, Jay Mahal, has approximately three reasons to be ecstatic today. For starters, it’s Jay’s birthday; but that’s not all: Jay’s wife, Sukh, delivered a healthy baby daughter, on this elusive day marked as “12.12.12” on the calendar. Congratulations to Jay, who made headlines on DomainGang earlier this year, after selling […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.India’s biggest problem – Available as a dot com
It’s shocking seeing how a country with one of the oldest cultures in the world is still doing it in the woods. India, with its 1.2 billion population, suffers from hygiene in the most basic of all functions: going number two. Public defecation is so prominent in large metro areas such as New Delhi, that […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Alarming censorship in India: ISP blocks 25 million blogs
Tata Photon, an Internet Service Provider in India, blocked the entire WordPress.com realm, effectively shutting down access to 25 million blogs hosted on the popular CMS. The Indian ISP claims it was following orders of the Indian government to block access to allegedly offensive content. Freedom of speech is an unknown species in the second […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Four-figure Twitter handle sale shakes ICANN-laden blogosphere
Today’s news is 99% about ICANN, what with the revealing of almost 2,000 new gTLD applications. Even the Domain King noticed the plethora of news blogged about by us and other domain blogs! 😀 But this sale of a Twitter handle for 2,750 British pounds (or $4,279 dollars in current exchange rates) is quite shocking. […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Thousands of domainers flock to Domainfest in Santa Monica!
Thousands of domainers are flocking to Domainfest, which opens its gates tomorrow, January 31st in Santa Monica, California. The three-day domain conference will accommodate a large party of domain investors from India and Pakistan, where domaining has exploded in 2011 due to new regulations by their respective governments. “We are prepared to welcome and host […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Government of India seizes Penis Domain
If you’re an active investor of the Indian TLD .in beware: the Indian government might decide that your domain is used in a manner that’s immoral or obscene. The word “lund” in Hindi means “penis” and apparently to own one in the .in TLD is a crime in India, so Lund.in was recently repossessed by […]
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