Bored Apes worth $1 million stolen using a dot .land #domain name

Posted by DomainGang on April 26, 2022, at 5:47 pm

Some unfortunate owners of the highly valuable Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs lost their assets yesterday. The cybercriminals took advantage of a security lapse at the BAYC Instagram page, substituting the official link with one they controlled. Using the domain YugaLabs.land, the criminals set up a page mimicking Yuga Labs, operators of the BAYC franchise. […]

Filed under Domain Crime · Tagged with BAYC, Domains, NFT, Yuga Labs, YugaLabs.land, domain crime

#LimeWire is back as #NFT market after Limewire.com #domain sale

Posted by DomainGang on March 26, 2022, at 12:11 pm

LimeWire was a popular destination for peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing that shut down over a decade ago. It operated from the domain Limewire.com that was registered in 2000, when the service was launched. Apparently, LimeWire is back as an NFT marketplace. In other words, the new company has nothing to do with the old one, […]

Filed under Domain News · Tagged with Domainers, Domains, LimeWire, Limewire.com, NFT, p2p

Web3 #domain squatting a real problem

Posted by DomainGang on March 26, 2022, at 10:23 am

Riding on the NFT craze arrives the so-called Web3 domain name squatting. Numerous non-official TLDs that exist on the Ethereum Name Service (ENS) blockchain are being registered and that’s a good thing. What’s not so good is the high number of trademark and brand infringements that take place in that namespace. Popular companies, their products […]

Filed under Domain News · Tagged with Domains, ENS, ETH, Ethereum Name Service, NFT, OpenSea, Web3, domain squatting, trademark infringement, trademarks

Winamp relaunch with an #NFT focus

Posted by DomainGang on March 18, 2022, at 12:05 pm

When you obtain a legendary brand such as Winamp, the stakes are high. Operating from the domain Winamp.com, the iconic music player made MP3 music files popular in the late 90’s and early 2000’s but its popularity fell later on and AOL shut it down. The company was sold twice, first in 1999 to AOL […]

Filed under Domain News · Tagged with Domains, MP3, NFT, WACUP, Winamp, Winamp.com

Domain Apes.io sold for five figures a year after $155 dollar sale!

Posted by DomainGang on December 29, 2021, at 2:17 pm

The domain Apes.io was just announced as sold for five figures USD. The sale was shared by domain brokerage Mr. Premium – the brainchild of domain broker Mark Ghoriafi. Apes.io sold for $20,000 dollars, scoring a remarkable return on investment against its acquisition cost a year ago: a mere $155 dollars via Sav, according to […]

Filed under Domain News · Tagged with Apes.io, BAYC, Mark Ghoriafi, Mr. Premium, MrPremium.com, NFT, domain apes

Metamask.com: Crypto wallet company is a Reverse Domain Name Hijacker

Posted by DomainGang on December 21, 2021, at 2:30 pm

Metamask, a company formed to assist with crypto wallet transactions via the browser, was found guilty of engaging in Reverse Domain Name Hijacking. What happened: The company operates from Metamask.io and they filed a UDRP to usurp the domain Metamask.com. Why did the UDRP fail: The domain Metamask.com was registered in 2005, long before Metamask […]

Filed under Domain Law · Tagged with Domains, MetaMask, MetaMask.com, NFT, RDNH, UDRP, crypto wallet, reverse domain name hijacking

Domain pioneer to auction off massive #Theranos stock certificate as an #NFT

Posted by DomainGang on December 16, 2021, at 2:12 pm

In 1999, domain industry pioneer, Marc Ostrofsky, sold Business.com in a deal valued at $7.5 million dollars—a new world record at the time. According to Wikipedia, Marc Ostrofsky owns the domains Photographer.com, TechToys.com, Bachelor.com, HeartDisease.com, and many more. But domain investments isn’t Marc Ostrofsky’s primary business; as an early investor in the Theranos technology, he […]

Filed under Domain News · Tagged with Domains, Elizabeth Holmes, Marc Ostrofsky, NFT, OpenSea, Theranos NFT, theranos, theranos.com

Minting NFTs? Don’t use subdomains

Posted by DomainGang on December 1, 2021, at 4:00 pm

If you’re rolling out a fun new NFT, such as the Paradise Trippies, there’s one thing you should not do. No, it’s not about how many pre-minting (aka whitelisted) passes you give away, something that the Metasaurs NFT went all in. Once you choose the main domain that represents your NFT, don’t use subdomains. For […]

Filed under Domain News, Featured · Tagged with MintParadise.com, NFT, Paradise Trippies, Paradise Trippies NFT, mint.paradise.com

TrademarkMyNFT.com applies to register as a trademark

Posted by DomainGang on November 10, 2021, at 9:22 am

The operators of TrademarkMyNFT.com have filed an application with the USPTO to trademark TRADEMARKMYNFT.COM – quite ironic! According to their web site: Trademarkmynft.com is a trademark filing service for NFT brand creators from Carriman Law Group in NY. Registering a trademark for your NFT Brand Name gives government-backed ownership rights & protections that you don’t […]

Filed under Domain Law · Tagged with Domains, NFT, TrademarkMyNFT.com

Metasaurs.com: NFT project launches, copycat #domains registered en masse

Posted by DomainGang on October 18, 2021, at 10:02 am

Metasaurs.com, the NFT project by domain investor, Merlin Kauffman, launched on Friday among high levels of anticipation. After gathering more than 200,000 followers in its Discord, the Metasaurs project faced some pre-release glitches. Eventually, it sent fewer than 2,000 of the 10k NFT Metasaurs into the public mint process, whereupon they “evaporated” in under one […]

Filed under Domain News · Tagged with Domains, Merlin Kauffman, Metasaurs.com, NFT, trademarks

Known #domain broker bidding on OpenSea.com?

Posted by DomainGang on October 16, 2021, at 1:48 pm

OpenSea is the biggest NFT marketplace, operating from the domain OpenSea.io. The rapid increase in NFT interest has turned an already busy platform into the quintessential destination for trading NFTs. OpenSea just announced the launch of its OpenSea app, not forgetting to pat themselves on the back: Oh, and OpenSea is now in the top […]

Filed under Domain News · Tagged with Domains, GreatDomains, NFT, OpenSea, OpenSea.com, Sedo, Sedo.com, domain auction

OpenSeas.com: Best buoys and zero #NFT

Posted by DomainGang on October 2, 2021, at 11:40 am

OpenSea is one of the biggest NFT platforms with millions of dollars in daily transactions. The digital goods platform grew exponentially in 2021 and operates from the domain OpenSea.io. Sedo will be auctioning off the matching .com domain, OpenSea.com, in a Great Domains auction from October 14th, and while some people say that the only […]

Filed under Domain News · Tagged with NFT, OpenSea, OpenSea.com, OpenSeas.com, buoys

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