Someone just lost $1,000,000 dollars by buying a stolen domain
Someone just flushed $1,000,000 dollars down the drain, after buying an apparently stolen domain name. Member “Dong Yuan” posted in a NamePros thread: “I have big problem i have buy domain for $1 Million USD on 8 May 2017 and transfer it to PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com then in 20 June 2017, My registrar sent […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Rick Schwartz returns to NamePros!
Rick Schwartz broke his dedication to Twitter on Saturday, heading over to NamePros for some spunky domain commentary. The Domain King, who until this weekend had made just one post since 2007, left several comments in a thread related to gTLD domain names. A week short of a comment-less decade as a NamePros member, Rick’s […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.NamePros member offers big prizes for guessing the forum’s millionth member
A NamePros thread is all about when the forum’s 1,000,000th registered member will sign up. Cyberian is offering 5 prizes to the best guess: Prize C1: One ticket to NamesCon 2018. Prize C2: Two tickets to NamesCon 2018. Prize N: 7-day site-wide notice that appears on every page of NamePros for members to promote your […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.NamePros : PayPal refunded payment linked to fraudulent domain sales
Quite unsurprisingly, PayPal refunded payments for domains that were fraudulently sold, but not those sent as a “gift.” A massive new fraud incident that was squashed at NamePros, unveiled some interesting facts: About 80% of all fraud that has taken place on NamePros over the past couple years, which is still a relatively small number, […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.NamePros combats shill bids : URUN but you cannot hide
The domain community of NamePros identified and terminated a shill bid situation in its making, ending it with a the closing of the associated accounts. A thread seeking offers for the domain URUN.com for sale escalated quickly, sending offers into the thousands of dollars. One small problem: one of the bidders was a shill account. […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Emerge.com : Confirmed to be a stolen domain name
The domain name Emerge.com has been confirmed as stolen, after its legitimate owner was contacted for further details. Eagle-eyed members of NamePros raised their concerns about the validity of statements regarding Emerge.com, in a domain evaluation thread. Someone claiming to have acquired Emerge.com for “less than $500” at a drop, used the domain hijacking method […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Emerge.com : NamePros locks down appraisal thread on suspicion of domain theft
NamePros locked down an appraisal thread for the domain Emerge.com, on suspicion of domain theft. The domain Emerge.com changed hands unexpectedly, less than a week ago, after EmergeTest.com, a domain controlling its Registrant and Admin accounts expired, and was re-registered. This is a classic example of domain hijacking, and the person who opened the appraisal […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.NamePros & NameThreads data mining : Most members not in favor of scraping domain sales
An innovative software product by NameThreads.com, seeks to provide a better search engine for domains for sale at NamePros. The third party service is not affiliated with the domain forum, and describes its mission as follows: “Easily search all the domains for sale in Namepros.com. We have well over 100,000 domains in our database. Domain […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.NamePros stats : Very close to hitting 1 million members
NamePros has been online as a domain forum since 2003, and it’s getting very close to hitting 1,000,000 members. While not all of these accounts could possibly be active concurrently, the forum administrators ensured us that new members are real people, not bots. The current number of members stands at 997,226 and Eric Lyon estimates […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.NamePros : Heidi Powell .com domain case raises the issue of domains as property
An ongoing thread over at NamePros raises, once again, the issue of whether domain names are property. Contributing his vast knowledge on the subject of domain law, IP attorney and recent grandfather, John Berryhill, states: “And here we come to one of my pet peeves – the irrational insistence by some domainers that domain names […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.NamesCon 2017 shocker : No electronic devices during Frank Schilling keynote speech!
NamesCon 2017 is merely days away; the biggest domain conference of the year opens its gates in Las Vegas, on Sunday the 22nd. An estimated 1,400 attendees will help set new records in how the domain industry is perceived by outsiders, and domain investors alike. Uniregistry founder, Frank Schilling, will be delivering the first keynote […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Domainer dating : NamePros member describes his “chick” quest problem
Imagine coming out of a long relationship, only to find out that the dating scene is full of chicks (or dudes) that don’t have a clue about what domainers do. A Canadian domain investor is sharing his current situation, with the following description, on NamePros: “How do you explain to a chick what you do […]
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