George Kirikos shares numerous #domain sales using new big data mining tool
Canadian domain investor and fintech sleuth, George Kirikos, announced a series of remarkable lowball sales using his domain research tool, Canadrill. The data mining tool can scan 100 trillion WHOIS records in under one hour, churning out detailed reports on past registrants, financial records with the SEC, and even trademark databases in Morocco, Palestine, Benelux, […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Network Solutions : #WHOIS fear and loathing of your #domains and data!
Network Solutions, the original domain Registrar, has been receiving some heat on Twitter recently. It’s all about the pressure it puts on domain registrants, urging them to use “Private Registration” and protect themselves from spammers. Of course, that’d cost you extra. The big green letters say it all: “Warning: Your personal information is in danger.” […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Back to the future: Has the Symbolics.com #domain registration date changed?
Savvy domain investors know that Symbolics.com, the first hand-registered .com domain, was marked with a registration date of March 15th, 1985. It was a Friday, and during that same week people in US were listening to “Can’t Fight This Feeling” by REO Speedwagon, all while in the UK the Dead Or Alive had sent “You […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.#DomainTools on scheduled maintenance
DomainTools, the quintessential domain research tool, has scheduled maintenance for the first week in March. During this event, various DomainTools resources, including www.domaintools.com, research.domaintools.com, and api.domaintools.com may be unavailable or occasionally slow to respond, multiple times throughout the window. The anticipated downtime schedule is as follows: Start Time: 03/05/2020 22:00 PST End Time: 03/06/2020 02:00 […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.#GDPR bullshit : Cause of #WHOIS nightmare is not a Euro money maker
GDPR, the bullshit Euro-law crafted to generate penalty money for the Eurocrats, is failing its privacy claims. According to a report from Digi.me, GDPR driven data breaches result in penalties only for 0.25% of the cases! This astonishing fact makes everyone in the domain world wonder why in fuck’s sake did ICANN push for WHOIS […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.#RiskMethods .com : Lack of a #WHOIS update leads to a messy #UDRP
The domain RiskMethods.com was sold for 25,000 euro in 2017; allegedly, the new owner, Lever10 Inc., of Las Vegas, Nevada, failed to update the WHOIS information. Its former owner, Level2 LLC, was named as a Respondent in an ensuing UDRP. A German company with a registered trademark for RISKMETHODS stepped in, and filed a UDRP […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.#Panama gets bad rep thanks to #WHOIS privacy services
Several companies are formed and based in Panama, in order to provide WHOIS privacy services. Long before the onslaught of the GDPR that rendered WHOIS information useless, the privacy WHOIS option enables both legitimate parties seeking peace of mind, and unscrupulous spammers. New data about digital piracy of images, shows that Panama accounts for 6.76% […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Alex Stamos on #domain WHOIS and Michael Cohen : European push for #GDPR enables criminal activity
Security expert, Alex Stamos, worked for Yahoo! and Facebook at managerial positions; he’s currently at Stanford as an Adjunct Professor at Stanford’s Freeman-Spogli Institute. Under the light of Michael Cohen’s testimony at the Congress, Mr. Stamos pointed out that the domain ShouldTrumpRun.com was under the control of a “Michael Cohen” with a NYC address in […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.“Fake #domain WHOIS” claims power MPA piracy cases in #India
If you are using India’s dot .IN domains to facilitate digital piracy, you are already in trouble. The Motion Picture Association (MPA) of Hollywood has come to an agreement with the Indian domain registry NIXI, enabling them to suspend pirate sites. What’s new in this approach is that such anty-piracy cases are powered by claiming […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.#DomainTools : Small change in #brand alerts makes a big difference
DomainTools is the quintessential domain research tool, for domain investors and industry professionals. It’s often used by security experts, attorneys and representatives of the law, to identify and track down cybercriminals. Despite the onslaught of the GDPR that took away many features of the WHOIS data, DomainTools maintains the biggest historic WHOIS database on the […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Free reverse domain #WHOIS service from #DomainTools reverses #GDPR damage
DomainTools announced its free reverse domain WHOIS today, called Iris Mirror. ™ The service is available to everyone, even those without a credit card, and it’s quite revolutionary, according to those of us who beta-tested it for the past six and a half weeks. “Iris Mirror ™ is the next step in digital data digestion, […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.#Domain business, law, and the “gutting” of the #WHOIS by the #GDPR
Domain investors have been utilizing the information provided by the WHOIS database for well over two decades. Despite the fact that such public domain registration information was regularly abused, the information itself helped engage professionals, in a variety of business transactions, including that of domain name sales. The introduction of the GDPR in Europe has […]
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