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Happy New Year! Goodbye 2021 and hello 2022. Depending on which timezone you’re on, this may have happened already; if not, it will happen in a few hours, whether you like it or not. 😀 Let me start by wishing everyone the very best for the next 3...
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December 31, 2021 DomainGang
Editorial, Happy New Year, HappyNewYear.com
‘Tis the season to be jolly – the year is about to end, pushing 2021 out like a giant piece of processed food. But no worries, with 2022 ante portas, domain investors are eager and hopeful to commence sales and forge new alliances and relat...
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December 28, 2021 DomainGang
Editorial, penniless students, poor students
If you remember what you were doing on September 26, 2009, without a second thought—congratulations, you’re either a prodigy or a savant! As it happens, it takes a particular reason to recall a specific day in time 12 years ago and for us that...
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September 26, 2021 DomainGang
12 birthday, Editorial
It’s a sad realization of corporate greed: Verisign secured in its .com contract to increase its base pricing up to 7% annually. ICANN, overseers of TLDs and a company that is supposed to negotiate better contracts benefiting the consumer did not...
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August 4, 2021 DomainGang
.com prices, Editorial
Call me stupid, but I just had to join Clubhouse. It’s an iOS app, so for us Android plebes it’s a no-go. My fingers typed in www dot apple dot com and minutes later I was ordering a spanking new Apple iPhone 12. Seven hundred dollars light...
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January 25, 2021 DomainGang
Clubhouse, Clubhouse domainers, Editorial
Like millions of others, watching the 1st presidential debate yesterday I was hoping for an open dialog between two – very old – adults. Alas, it was a Shitstorm.com. You can buy that domain on Afternic. Tantrums and interruptions ensued, l...
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September 30, 2020 DomainGang
debate domains, Editorial, political domains
After 11 years on Twitter, we are now blocked by domain registrar NameCheap. The trigger: We pointed out abusive domain registrations – at a discount – and the pattern is typically the same: NameCheap as the domain registrar, Cloudflare as ...
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July 14, 2020 DomainGang
abuse, Editorial, Namecheap, Spam
A lot of ignorant commentary in blog posts today suggests that your domains at Uniregistry are in some type of “danger,” or lockdown. Others raise a “warning” that if the supposed transition fails to move your domains to GoDaddy...
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April 6, 2020 DomainGang
Editorial
A nasty attack by dot .COM Registry under contract, Verisign, attempts to point the finger at domain registrants, Registrars, and the Internet Commerce Association (ICA.) In the process, it accuses domain Registrars that informed their customers of upc...
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February 18, 2020 DomainGang
Editorial
It’s time to say goodbye, farewell and adios amigos to all domain name investors. The ride so far has been fantastic, the stories and news were matched by the great personalities of both real and imaginary characters – but it’s time t...
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December 31, 2019 DomainGang
Editorial, goodbye 2019