XYZ domains : Registry scheduled downtime has been completed
The XYZ Registry successfully completed its scheduled downtime today, to maintain the freshness and validity of its .XYZ domain inventory. “At exactly 7:30am Pacific time, I pressed the big red reboot button we have here at XYZ, and every domain was power-cycled to ensure its microcode stays up to par,” said XYZ Registry founder and […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.China : Domain investor arrested for buying “non-premium” letters
In a clear display of government authoritarianism, police in Beijing, China, arrested a domain investor last week. Xiao Ping Guo, a Chinese domain investor from Shanghai, was taken to the local police station for interrogation. The official charges: “Registration of domain names that do not conform to the Pinyin protocol and ethics, in accordance to […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.China Daddy: Expanding into the Chinese domain market
GoDaddy, the biggest domain registrar in the world, is leveraging the opportunity to expand its domain registrar business. Tapping into the large and lucrative Chinese domain market, GoDaddy is rolling out a redesigned portal of GoDaddy.com. If you are in China, this is what you’re currently viewing – click on image to enlarge. Independent domain […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Domain investing : Latvian students looking for cheap LLL .com domains
Dariusz and Gustaw Promenius are two brothers from Latvia, finishing school; domain investing is their passion and hobby. Wanting to extend into the lucrative LLL .com domain market, the Promenius brothers are now seeking LLL .com submissions. To promote their search, they posted a photo on Facebook with a brief message: “Hi guys! How you […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.GoDaddy Mustache Guy : Face of ‘hacker’ feature makes domainers nervous
GoDaddy has apparently launched a new, live service, depicting the photo of the person attempting to infiltrate your domain account. The new service, called “Hacker Face Live” internally, connects remote cameras that snap the photo of domain account hackers. Domainers are safe, for now, but they do feel nervous: “People with thin mustaches make me […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Fight Club : UFC to provide organized fighting events for domain brokers
It’s fight club time, and we’re not talking about the .XYZ vs. .CLUB animosity. Dozens of domain broker professionals are currently in training, after UFC announced it will be organizing fight events among domain brokers. The competition between independent and organized professionals in the domain brokering business, is the direct result of skyrocketing prices for […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Chinese Singles’ Day : New record as all 9N .com domains get registered!
China’s Singles’ Day set new records, with $9 billion dollars in sales at mega-store Alibaba alone – and the day is only half-way through. This consumerist display of “Communist Capitalism” is the Chinese version of Black Friday for the Western markets. According to Alibaba, Chinese domain investors spent a lot of money on a variety […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Domain terror : Owner “blows up” ancient .com domains
Old domain names are a heritage to the world, and the Internet as a whole. Despite efforts to preserve a portfolio of domain names registered between 1985 and 1990, the unthinkable has happened. Outraged by a recent turn in international politics, domain investor Selim Mehmet Admin proceeded with the forceful deletion of these domains. “Innocent […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Omar & Will : Dynamic domain duo caught Ellen DeGeneres’s attention!
Omar and Will, the dynamic domain duo dishing advice while sitting in their car, has been a great success. Aiming a camera at themselves while sitting in their car – a Honda Civic, we’re told – these two guys deliver positive thinking, humor and their own approach to domain investing. Their latest video takes things […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Blacknight CEO takes plane around Europe to ICANN54 destination
Michele Neylon, CEO of the Irish Internet services provider, Blacknight, is heading to ICANN54 in Dublin. The ever-busy entrepreneur and gastronomer has raked millions of airmiles, during more than a decade of trips to ICANN conferences worldwide. Not to be out-done this time, Michele decided to fly around Europe, in order to reach Dublin. “So […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Google might remove letters B,M,W from its Alphabet domains!
Google has been buying “alphabet” related domains left and right. Starting with the acquisition of ABC.XYZ, the search engine monolith created a separate mother company, Alphabet, Inc. This move did not sit well with Alphabet.com owners, German automaker BMW. The recent purchase by Google of the domain ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ.com wasn’t a surprise, but it’s expected to […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Sedo : Indigenous Americans to get domain discounts
Officially, we celebrate Christopher Columbus today, for fighting sea sickness and taking no showers for two months, in order to re-discover America. Today, many indigenous (native) Americans may still recall legends relayed through their families, of a long-lost era when it was free to roam the land. As appreciation to those long-oppressed tribes of American […]
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