Twitter closes “video loop” service Vine down

Posted by DomainGang on October 27, 2016, at 3:34 pm

Twitter is closing down its Vine video loop service, which it acquired in 2012 for $30 million dollars. The sudden announcement shares the sad news of how one of the top 10 social media sites will be closing down – but not today: “Since 2013, millions of people have turned to Vine to laugh at […]

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Bob Parsons : I told you so, Twitter!

Posted by DomainGang on October 27, 2016, at 1:04 pm

GoDaddy founder, Bob Parsons, is well-known for his entrepreneurial acumen, often delivering advice in a direct, factual manner. The former Marine and decorated Vietnam veteran, recently made a comment on Twitter, about the financial hardships the latter faces: 2011/Twitter refused deal easily worth millions every yr. Told me “we don’t care about revenue.” Bet they […]

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Hacker steals @LAU Twitter account, attempts to sell it

Posted by DomainGang on August 17, 2016, at 1:39 pm

Richard Lau’s Twitter account got compromised a few days ago, by a hacker who attempted to sell it. The premium, ultra-short @LAU account was obtained by Richard Lau in May, to be used for his family. A hacker managed to gain access to the Twitter account, reset the password, and changed the email address it […]

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Frank Schilling : Verified domainer on Twitter

Posted by DomainGang on August 9, 2016, at 2:57 pm

Domain investor and entrepreneur, Frank Schilling, has been verified on Twitter. As far as we know, he’s the only domainer to have acquired the blue check mark of Twitter verification. 😀 That check mark indicates that the person operating the Twitter account is a public figure, and it implies authenticity. According to Twitter: “We approve […]

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Domaining : Francois bids “au revoir” to Twitter

Posted by DomainGang on June 30, 2016, at 7:29 am

French domain entrepreneur, Francois Carrillo, left a cryptic message on Twitter yesterday. The one liner read: “The End.” Today, Francois announced that he’s leaving Twitter behind, after it failed to deliver any marketable conversion. Although the @DomainingCom account was established way back in 2009, it has only 124 tweets. That’s half as many as we […]

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Richard Lau : NamesCon founder celebrates birthday with new LLL on Twitter

Posted by DomainGang on May 12, 2016, at 11:05 pm

Domain investor and serial entrepreneur, Richard Lau, celebrates his birthday today. The NamesCon co-founder owns a great number of quality domains such as Resume.com and Ocean.net, including his very own last name, Lau.com. If that weren’t an achievement on its own, Richard also owns the two letter domain RL.com, his initials; that’s a minimum of […]

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Periscope up : Twitter UDRP against PeriSearch.net is quite overreaching

Posted by DomainGang on April 7, 2016, at 4:38 pm

Once in a while, we see a major corporation, such as Twitter, exert its full corporate weight to squash improvisation. In the UDRP case involving the domain Perisearch.net, its Turkish programmer was forced to surrender a domain that in our opinion violated no trademarks. Twitter acquired Periscope, a live video streaming service for between $75 […]

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New gTLD Registries : Do they own the matching Twitter account?

Posted by DomainGang on February 4, 2016, at 1:10 pm

Twitter is an important medium for domain companies to engage with their customers. The launch of several hundred new gTLDs is making the domain name space rather crowded, and there is more competition than ever. While Twitter’s policy forbids the resale of Twitter accounts, many such transactions occur “under the hood.” How many new gTLD […]

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Tweet #AmazonCart to add stuff to your Amazon shopping cart!

Posted by DomainGang on May 5, 2014, at 5:15 pm

Right as we thought that it doesn’t get any crazier in the world of social media, Amazon and Twitter come along to prove us wrong. A new joint feature of Twitter and Amazon allows people to find a tweet that contains an Amazon product and respond with the hashtag #AmazonCart, instantly adding it to their […]

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Was your Twitter account hacked?

Posted by DomainGang on November 8, 2012, at 4:39 pm

Twitter sent an email to an unspecified number of its users, yesterday, urging them to log in and change their account password as the system reset it. The email read in part as follows: “Twitter believes that your account may have been compromised by a website or service not associated with Twitter. We’ve reset your […]

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Voula Papachristou: No more tweeting!

Posted by DomainGang on August 3, 2012, at 5:04 pm

The Greek triple-jumper, Voula Papachristou, has apparently learned a hard lesson and has quit tweeting. Since her public apology about a tweet that was deemed racist by the Greek Olympic Committee, resulting in her banishment from the Greek Olympic team, Voula Papachristou has not tweeted. Papachristou also deleted the offensive tweet, which can still be […]

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Domain names, Olympic tweets and chicks with toned bodies

Posted by DomainGang on July 26, 2012, at 12:01 pm

You might not be able to read this editorial, because for the past 20+ hours, DomainGang is being hammered by thousands of visitors. Our article about Voula Papachristou – the Greek triple-jumper with the toned body and nice glutes – went viral; thousands of Olympic ogling males are looking for pictures of the banned athlete. […]

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