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Dutch disaster: Anti-piracy agency orders Dutch ISPs to block The Pirate Bay
07 February 2012, 11:55:36 AM from DomainGang
 

The Pirate Bay might have moved to a Swedish ccTLD but it’s already facing a new challenge, surprisingly in liberal Holland. Hague-based BREIN filed a lawsuit and won a court order against two major Dutch ISPs. According to the BREIN web site: “The BREIN foundation is the joint anti-piracy program of authors, artists, publishers, producers [...]

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Order of the Domain Knights: How domain auctions are won
07 February 2012, 10:51:51 AM from DomainGang
 

After months of research we are now able to share the details about a secret society of domainers, called The Rosemary Order of the Inverted Domain Cross. Its members gather every second Tuesday of the month, and arrange for the acquisitions and sales of domain names that will be announced months later. In essence, they [...]

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Meet the youngest LLL.com domain on the Internet!
06 February 2012, 03:14:54 PM from DomainGang
 

It’s hard to fathom that in the year 2012 we have LLL.com domains with a fresh registration date! Three letter dot com domains have long been used as “coinage” among domain investors and as useful shortcuts for companies and individuals for their online presence. There are 17,576 (26^3) three letter combinations and all of them [...]

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Large ISP in Africa lets its domain expire
06 February 2012, 11:26:08 AM from DomainGang
 

Africom- a large ISP in the African nation of Zimbabwe has allowed its domain name to expire. Not only that, but the 12 year old .com Afri-com.com is now in the hands of a speculator who hides pornography links in the landing page! Read the full embarrassing story, with pictures here.   Tweet This Post

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Large ISP in Africa lets its domain expire
06 February 2012, 11:26:08 AM from DomainGang
 

Africom – a large ISP in the African nation of Zimbabwe has allowed its domain name to expire. Not only that, but the 12 year old .com Afri-com.com is now in the hands of a speculator who hides pornography links in the landing page! Read the full embarrassing story, with pictures here.   Tweet This [...]

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QR.com – The Six Figure domain that didn’t sell at Domainfest
06 February 2012, 10:49:40 AM from DomainGang
 

The two letter dot com domain QR.com was initially listed as sold at Domainfest in Santa Monica; the shock came a little later, as it was revealed that the highest bidder thought he was bidding on the next lot, for 12.com Embarrassing as it may seem, these things do happen and there are provisions in [...]

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Super Bowl domains: You know you should not do it!
05 February 2012, 05:36:26 PM from DomainGang
 

“Super Bowl” is a registered trademark of the National Football League, going back to 1966. Naturally, the NFL owns SuperBowl.com – but what about those that think it’s ok to register domains abusing this famous trademark? Apparently, there are at least 2,968 domain names – including those operated by the NFL – that contain the [...]

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Andy Milonakis: Who will win the Super Bowl?
05 February 2012, 07:55:56 AM from DomainGang
 

It’s Super Bowl XLVI Sunday today – for those of you not into Roman numerals, that’s 46. The Romans counted it as “ten less than fifty plus five plus one“. Super Bowl XLVI (Giants vs Patriots) is today Sunday, February 5, 2012, at 6:30pm ET. Anyway, Andy Milonakis never liked the Super Bowl, as the video [...]

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Big Day for Morgan Linton and Patrick Ruddell
04 February 2012, 06:34:39 PM from DomainGang
 

Today’s a big day for two domainer personalities and for reasons that are quite similar. In an announcement, investor and developer, Morgan Linton, disclosed that he and fiancée Daina will be tying the knot pretty soon! “Off to meet with a wedding planner! We’ve narrowed it down to three and are going to pick our [...]

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Did Hank Alvarez sell out to new SnapNames owners?
04 February 2012, 10:44:15 AM from DomainGang
 

We haven’t heard from Hank Alvarez for a while – the notorious shill bidder that created the “halvarez” scandal as a former VP at SnapNames. Hank Alvarez – or “Hanky” as he’s often known – declared his repentance on multiple occasions, stating that he’s a changed man and an honest domain auction entrepreneur. Something is [...]

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