AOL & Yahoo : Once again sold!
AOL and Yahoo, two of the internet’s iconic brands, are being sold once again. Verizon is taking a $4 billion dollar loss, by selling the pair for $5 billion to private equity firm, Apollo Global Management. In a press release, Verizon said the sale allows the company to “aggressively pursue growth areas and stands to […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.AOL bought “Oath” domain from a NamePros member
A member of NamePros shared an interesting story: AOL bought the domain OurOath.com from him, for a “very beautiful price.” AOL and Yahoo merged, rebranding to Oath, and acquired the domain Oath.com. It seems that the domain OurOath.com is to be used along the same lines, extending the Oath brand. The Chinese seller of OurOath.com […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Domain crime : Get your domains away from AOL, Yahoo and Hotmail accounts fast!
Global alert : Domain hackers are attempting to steal domains, where the registrant uses AOL, Yahoo or Hotmail accounts. There have been numerous instances of such attempts and even successful domain theft incidents that we’re aware of. Changing one’s managing accounts to secure free email providers such as Gmail or ProtonMail is the first step […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.The sad history of Yahoo! from beginning to the end
Internet search engine and news portal Yahoo! has been acquired by Verizon, to the tune of $4.83 billion dollars. The former number one Internet portal keeps its Alibaba shares, Yahoo! Japan, and as many as 4,000 patents and other intellectual property. The rest, goes to Verizon that already owns another Internet relic, AOL. As hindsight […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Yahoo! Sold to Verizon for $4.8 billion dollars
Ending months of byzantine scenarios, Yahoo! has been sold to Verizon. The price tag is a not-so-whopping $4.8 billion dollars, a far cry from its heyday value of more than $125 billion. According to Bloomberg, the sale of the Yahoo! core assets to Verizon will be announced tomorrow Monday, before the stock markets open up. […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Rumor mill : Will Daniel Negari buy Yahoo?
Daniel Negari‘s offer of $5 million dollars to acquire several gTLDs from the Rightside stash was recently rejected. With Yahoo up for sale, now it’s the time for the XYZ Registry founder and CEO to think big! It really makes sense for the XYZ Registry to buy out Yahoo, and here are some reasons why […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Overture : The demise of a great tool and domain in the hands of Yahoo!
Overture was an once great keyword search tool, having formed in 2001 after GoTo.com renamed itself to Overture Services, Inc. In the years that followed, Overture ‘swallowed’ both Altavista and AlltheWeb, and in 2003 it was itself acquired by Yahoo! for $1.63 billion dollars. So what has happened to Overture.com ? The domain is currently […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Yahoo wants to get rid of account passwords altogether!
The average person can recite between 5-12 online account passwords from memory, without resorting to stored records of them or resetting them. When this happens every single time, you know you have a memory problem, or far too many accounts. Yahoo! wants to get rid of account passwords altogether, and allows for “on-demand” access of […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Data security and encryption: Alex Stamos rocks Yahoo!
Alex Stamos, formerly of the Artemis.net Secure project, is the Chief Information Security Officer at Yahoo! The changes at Yahoo! are clearly a direct result of his expertise: “When I joined Yahoo four weeks ago, we were in the middle of a massive project to protect our users and their data through the deployment of […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Trademark crossfire: Who cares if Tumblr is down? Tumblr does!
Tumblr is notorious for being down often; Yahoo’s $1.1 billion acquisition has a long way to go to be considered a reliable blogging platform. That’s exactly what Zach Inglis from London, UK, thought and he established IsTumblrDown.com. By pinging the popular blog destination, Inglis’s web site has been offering a valuable service to millions of […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.RIP AltaVista
Yahoo is restructuring its digital assets and pulling the plug on a number of online products, including AltaVista. Once the search engine of choice, AltaVista launched in 1995, the early days of commercial Internet. Here is the earliest archived page from 1996 at Archive.org. AltaVista is being retired on July 8th, 2013, barely 18 years […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Yahoo’s CEOilf: Google’s former minimalist engineer at work
Someone created this web site as a probable prank towards the new CEO of Yahoo!, Melissa Mayer 😀 Melissa Mayer, touted as the “CEOilf” of Yahoo!, notoriously worked on the minimalist look of the Google homepage. We aren’t sure how many woman-hours that took to complete, but it’s why we all love Google, right?
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