Francois scores with DomainScore
A domain name currently owned by Francois – the French domainer entrepreneur behind Domaining.com – has received a lot of interest recently, potentially from no other than Verisign. DomainScore.com – an obvious reference to the value or worth of domain names – is currently on sale at CAX.com which Francois operates. The domain was registered […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Verisign celebrates 17 years in a quiet fashion
Verisign, the domain Registry for dot .com and dot .net domains, celebrated its 17th anniversary on April 12th. There were no parties, fanfare or other glitzy parties reminiscent of the roaring 90’s, when millions were spent by start-ups in lavish demonstrations of paper wealth. The dot com bubble burst, but not before Verisign acquired Network […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.GoDaddy founder Bob Parsons angry about Daytona 500 postponement
GoDaddy founder and Daytona 500 team sponsor, Bob Parsons, is upset over the race’s postponement. GoDaddy sweetheart, Danica Patrick, crashed the GoDaddy car in a wall, during preliminary races last Thursday. “Gosh darn it, this is absolutely preposterous, that God would not grant Danica Patrick her much-deserved win at Daytona 500”, said a livid Bob […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Darth Verisign controls 400,000 ‘dark matter’ domains!
By crawling the Internet’s most remote areas, top WHOIS tool DomainTools has managed to reach into the vault of what appears to be a repository of ‘dark matter‘ domains. Unlike regular domain names that maintain a pair of nameservers, dark matter domains only exist at the Registry with no hope of ever seeing the light […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.i.net: The only Domain Registrar that didn’t raise prices for its customers
With Verisign raising prices for the .COM and .NET domains, domaining turned more expensive for thousands of domainers. “I hate what they did, with a passion”, said Jonas Brik, a domainer from Boston. “Verisign constantly takes my weekly allowance money and pays database admins in Lahore, Pakistan! I now have to ask my father to […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Finally, New York gets a glimpse of Danica Patrick’s legs!
Two days ago we provided a scoop on the new, full page ad of GoDaddy featuring Danica Patrick‘s flesh tones. The ad appeared on the December 23rd edition of USA Today and cost almost a quarter of a million dollars! The New York Times featured the same ad today, as seen at AllThingsDigital. Our scan […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Danica Patrick’s legs priced at $242,600 and what GoDaddy did with them!
A full page color ad for GoDaddy appeared on the Friday, December 23rd edition of USA Today. We’re talking about the print edition, which costs $1 at the newsstands across the US. The GoDaddy ad, features a seductive Danica Patrick appearing all leggy and smiling, hiding most of her upper body behind a panel, inviting […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Verisign: Internet safe despite 5.9 Quake in Virginia
A 5.8 earthquake has hit the Virginia area, home of Verisign that commands two of the world’s 13 root nameservers. “There has been no noticeable disruption of the Internet”, said Nick Fadamidis – a spokesperson for Verisign. “Ever wonder where your money goes when you renew those domain names? Now you know, it goes to […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Spam solved: Dashed domains to become More Expensive
If you have the patience to scroll through your spam mailbox these days, you will soon discover an obvious pattern. The majority of the domains sending out the bulk of spam, are descriptive long tails with dashes in-between. Spammers do this to achieve two things: first, supposed openness about their “warez” and second, to be […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Registry ready to charge Domain Resolution Fee in 2011
The party was over the moment the Registry started to charge the $100 fee per two years of domain registration. It was free until then. Nowadays, the registry fee makes up for a small portion of the total fees imposed per domain, resulting in a small profit margin for the Registry. “We have kept our […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Verisign: Really old domains go bad
It might be that Symbolics.com is the oldest .com domain in the world, what with having been registered in 1985 – a year many of you were not even born – but at least it has been actively used since then. Verisign is known for being in control of the .com and .net domains and […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.New Domain Renewal Service is the most aggressive yet
Let’s face it: as domainers, sometimes we forget to renew our domains on time. Other times, we do not want to renew our domains at all and we let them expire, letting them fade away into dropcatching hell. Soon, these will be options of the past. Domain Renewal Enforcer (DRE) – a product of Innovative […]
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