Project C.Y.B.O.R.G. aims at putting Microsoft back on the “glass” wearable market

Posted by DomainGang on October 20, 2014, at 1:28 pm

With interest in Google’s tightly-controlled Glass turning lukewarm, Microsoft corporation announced the existence of Project C.Y.B.O.R.G. Allegedly standing for Control Your Bing Operating Rendering Glass, the project takes over where it last left more than a decade ago, when Microsoft founder Bill Gates was still the CEO. “Cybernetic deep meta-processing of contextual imagery is just […]

Filed under Domain News · Tagged with Bing, DomainGang.com, Domainers, Domaining, Domains, Duane Forrester, Google Glass, Microsoft C.Y.B.O.R.G., Parody news, Project C.Y.B.O.R.G., bing.com, domain name gang, domain news, domain news done right, domaingang, microsoft, wearable technology

Top domains acquired by 10 Major Corporations today!

Posted by DomainGang on August 5, 2014, at 12:47 pm

With billions of dollars in steady revenue, large corporations engage in constant domain asset investment; the Wall Street wizards are well aware of the power of the .com and other TLDs. We often wonder, which domain names were bought by Fortune 500 companies on a given day? Thanks to some crafty research in the zone […]

Filed under Domain News · Tagged with Amazon, Apple, Comcast, DomainGang.com, Domainers, Domaining, Domains, Exxon Mobil, Humana Inc., Morgan Stanley, Parody news, PepsiCo, The Walt Disney Company, Wal-Mart, corporate domains, domain name gang, domain news, domain news done right, domaingang, microsoft, which domains companies bought

Microsoft unveils new logo after 25 years but misses on a special .com

Posted by DomainGang on August 24, 2012, at 12:02 am

Microsoft unveiled a new corporate logo yesterday; it’s first corporate identity change in 25 years! Which means, there is still room for change here at DomainGang, as we’re approaching the electronic publication’s 3rd anniversary. Said Jeff Hansen, General Manager, Brand Strategy, about the new Microsoft logo: “In advance of one of the most significant waves […]

Filed under Domain News · Tagged with DomainGang.com, Domainers, Domaining, Domains, Microsoft domains, Microsoft logo, MicrosoftLogo.com, domaingang, microsoft, trademark domains

$2 Billion Dollars spent today!

Posted by DomainGang on April 9, 2012, at 2:10 pm

Two related companies, Microsoft and Facebook, spent a combined $2 billion dollars today. Microsoft, a long term Facebook supporter, bought several hundred patents that once popular community, America Online, held for almost 15 years. By spending $1.056 billion dollars on those 800 patents, Microsoft is thus shielding partner giant Facebook from any potential competition regarding […]

Filed under Domain News · Tagged with $1 billion dollars, AOL, AOL patents, DomainGang.com, Domainers, Domaining, Domains, Facebook, Facebook buys Instagram, Instagram.com, Microsoft buys AOL patents, case of the Mondays, domain news, domaingang, microsoft

Googlighting: Microsoft takes on Google’s tactics with hilarious new video

Posted by DomainGang on February 21, 2012, at 5:55 pm

Microsoft rolled out a new video called “Googlighting” – a play on the popular 80’s TV series, “Moonlighting”. Says Microsoft: “Googlighting is what happens when the world’s largest advertising business tries to sell productivity software on the side. In fact, according to Gartner, Google Apps accounts for merely 0.5% of the ad company’s revenue after […]

Filed under Domain News · Tagged with Domainers, Domaining, Domains, Google is evil, Google video, Googlighting, Microsoft parody, Microsoft video mocking Google, domain news, microsoft

Flippa Friday: Microsoft domain hits the chopping block

Posted by DomainGang on February 10, 2012, at 5:16 pm

Flippa.com, the domain and web site auction house Down Under, continues to allow trademark violations on its marketplace. Not content with iPhone and Apple trademarks, Flippa goes full house this Friday with a listing that clearly violates one of the famous Microsoft trademarks. MicrosoftFeed.com is presented by its seller at Flippa as “A top quality […]

Filed under Domain News · Tagged with DomainGang.com, Domainers, Domaining, Domains, Flippa domains, Flippa.com allows tm domains, Microsoft trademarks, cybersquatting, domaingang, domains on Flippa, flippa, microsoft, trademark domains, trademark domains on Flippa

Move on: 10 Years of Windows XP

Posted by DomainGang on October 26, 2011, at 11:20 am

When Microsoft launched Windows XP in October 2001, it was deemed a revolutionary operating system that brought many improvements over Windows 2000. Exactly ten years later, Microsoft is about to roll out Windows 8 and WindowsXP.com points to a really sad portal. What will happen to those that still prefer to use Windows XP? Microsoft […]

Filed under Short News · Tagged with DomainGang.com, Domainers, Domaining, Domains, Windows, Windows XP, WindowsXP.com, microsoft

Microsoft demonstrates Windows 8 without the .com

Posted by DomainGang on September 13, 2011, at 5:50 pm

Microsoft provided a tablet loaded with Windows 8 to every paid attendee, at its Build conference in Anaheim today; beginning its push to sell software developers on the new operating system, Windows 8. Meanwhile, the almighty operating system developer does not own the domain name Windows8.com according to DomainTools. We’ll have to wait and see […]

Filed under Short News · Tagged with DomainGang.com, Domainers, Domaining, Domains, Microsoft Windows, Windows 8, domaingang, microsoft

Microsoft gets hacked!!!

Posted by DomainGang on February 8, 2011, at 2:34 am

Microsoft, the giant software publisher has just gotten hacked. Don’t go rushing to Microsoft.com to view some strange page though – that’s not the type of hack we’re talking about. In the language of domainers, a “hack” is a clever way to shorten a word or phrase to its shortest possible or practical manner. An […]

Filed under Domain News · Tagged with Bi.ng, Bing, DomainGang.com, DomainHacks.com, Domainers, Domaining, Domains, Francois Carrillo, Microsoft Bing, Microsoft domains, Nigerian domainers, domain hacks, domaingang, microsoft

Microsoft browser market share plummets – Do domainers care?

Posted by DomainGang on October 6, 2010, at 2:29 pm

Apparently Microsoft is losing the “war of the browsers” – new reports indicate that for the first time ever, the Internet Explorer use has dropped below 50%. The remaining 50% is shared among Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari and other lesser browsers. Still, do domainers really care about browser use? According to current trends, the majority […]

Filed under Domain News · Tagged with DomainGang.com, Domainers, Domaining, Domains, IE, Internet Explorer, developed domains, domain mass development, domaingang, firefox, microsoft, web browsers

AOL turns $400 million into less than half that!

Posted by DomainGang on April 29, 2010, at 2:19 am

How do you turn $400 million into half as much? Simple: you run America Online corporation. The much-hated mass-mailer of floppies and CD’s in the 90’s bought instant messenger service ICQ.com in 1996 for a whopping $400 million dollars. Around the same time Microsoft spent another $500 million to buy Hotmail.com but at least they […]

Filed under Domain News · Tagged with AOL, DST, Digital Sky Technologies, Domainers, Domaining, Domains, Facebook, Farmville, ICQ, ICQ.com, Mafia Wars, chatroulette, chatroulette.com, microsoft, money

Windows cleaner takes Microsoft to the WIPO over domain name

Posted by DomainGang on October 15, 2009, at 9:15 am

Two years ago, Salim Darim Salim arrived to America with his family from Iraq; leaving behind a village destroyed by the ethnic cleansing between the supporters of Saddam Hussein and the pro-democracy forces. Salim was lucky to have won a family visa at the annual visa lottery, an event that for many citizens of impoverished […]

Filed under Domain News · Tagged with Bill Gates, Business, Domain, Domainers, Entrepreneur, God is great, Immigration, Iraq, Praise God, Salim Darim Salim, Window-Cleaning, Windows 7, Windows cleaner, microsoft

« Previous Page — Next Page »