Author Archives: The Domains

About The Domains

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 5K domain names . Michael is also a Director of RightoftheDot.com which is a consultant in the new gTLD space and a broker of super premium domains. Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest this year.

Sat 20th February 2016
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UDRP Filed on Two Letter .Com Domain ZT.com - A UDRP has been filed on a two letter .Com domain name ZT.com It appears the domain name was owned in 2014 by Cincinnati Bell Telephone/Fuse Internet then transferred into privacy in September 2014, then transferred to a Raymond Liu in August 2015 and then was transferred to another Chinese buyer in October 2015, and transferred once again to another Chinese registrant in December 2015. The domain name is currently going to the site in the screenshot above. The complaint was filed at this point ... read more ...
Fri 19th February 2016
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Market Recap 2/19/16 GoDaddy finishes a week adult strong - Market Recap 2/19/16 Go Daddy (GDDY) was up close to 5% on the day. The stock finished the week up over 10%. Tucows (TCX) was up 1% on the day. Disclaimer – Any stock price and market data provided on our website is for informational purposes only, and should not be relied upon for trading purposes. Historical and current stock price performance data is not necessarily indicative of future performance. The writer of this article has no positions in the stocks mentioned. Staff of TheDomains.com ... read more ...
 
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Domain Registration on Record Pace? Over 750K Added Yesterday Alone - Registrations of domain names seem to be going on at a record pace. Yesterday saw the number of domain registrations across all Top Level Domain (TLD) names have a net add of over 750,000 domains according to registrarstats.com “Net Add” mean its the amount of domains registered less the number of domain names deleted. The gross numbers of domain names registered yesterday were close to 900,000. These total include all legacy domain names extensions like .com, .net and .org (22 in total) and ... read more ...
Thu 18th February 2016
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Market Recap 2/18/16 Endurance Intl adult tighten to 10% - Market Recap 2/18/16 Endurance Intl (EIGI) went on a ride today, trading as low as $8 and then closing at $10.28, up close to 10%. The company said they were buying Constant Contact earlier in the week and reported earnings today. GoDaddy (GDDY) was off 3.75% as investors digested their earnings report from last night. Disclaimer – Any stock price and market data provided on our website is for informational purposes only, and should not be relied upon for trading purposes. Historical and current ... read more ...
 
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Radix set to Launch .Store in April - Radix put out a press release today that they will be launching .Store in April. Dot store will start Sunrise on 6th April. The TLD will follow the same rollout as Radix’s last 3 launches. Sunrise will be followed by an Early Access Phase .store will enter General Availability on 14th June, 2016. Full Press Release: Dubai (18th February, 2016): Radix, the portfolio registry behind several new extensions including .site, .tech .online today announced they are gearing up for the launch of the first ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD Add Over 1 Million Domain Registrations in Just Last 5 Days - According to ntldstats.com, the number of new gTLD’s domain registrations grew by 1.1 million domains, in just the last 5 days. In terms of percentage of increase, the 1.1 million increase in new gTLD domain names, is close to a 9% increase in just 5 days. On February 13th, there were a total of 12,675,000 new gTLD domain names registered. Today on February 18th, ntldstats.com shows the total number of new gTLD’s domain name registrations at 13,782,837 meaning that the number of new gTLD domains ... read more ...
 
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In Less Than 2 Years, .XYZ Passes 14 Year Old .BIZ to Become 5th Largest Domain Extension - The new gTLD domain name extension, .XYZ is which won’t be two years old until, June of this year, just surpassed the  domain extension .Biz which has been around since 2001 in the number of domain registrations. According to RegistrarStats.com, .XYZ now has 2,369,039 domain name registered which passed .Biz which has 2,305,687 domains registered. In passing .Biz, .XYZ becomes the 5th largest Top Level Domain (TLD) in terms of domain name registrations. Only .com, .net. .org and .info have more ... read more ...
Wed 17th February 2016
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Market Recap 2/17/16 GoDaddy adult over 7% reports earnings - Market Recap 2/17/16 Go Daddy (GDDY) was up over $2 today or 7%, they received a buy recommendation from Deutsche Bank and reported earnings after the close. Fourth Quarter Financial Highlights Revenue of $425.4 million, up 14.4% year over year, or approximately 16.7% on a constant currency basis. Total Bookings of $464.0 million, up 13.3% year over year, or approximately 16.7% on a constant currency basis. Adjusted EBITDA of $73.5 million, up 30.3% year over year. Unlevered free cash flow of $52.3 ... read more ...
 
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.Me Passes 1 Million Domain Name Registrations +28% in 2015 - The .Me registry announced today that for the 1st time, the number of .Me domain registrations passed 1 Million domains. .Me is the country code or ccTLD for Montenegro. According to the Ministry for the Information Society and Telecommunications, the total number of registered domains amounted to 1,014,867, representing a whopping 28.36% annual growth in 2015. For the country Montenegro it’s a special that they passed 1 million domain registrations, of in the year in which the country is celebrating ... read more ...
Tue 16th February 2016
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Market Recap 2/16/16 Go Daddy adult tighten to 9% day before gain report - Market Recap 2/16/16 Go Daddy (GDDY) up close to 9% the day before they release earnings. The company received an outperform rating from RBC Capital today. Web.com (WWWW) the parent company of Network Solutions and Register.com was down close to 4%. Disclaimer – Any stock price and market data provided on our website is for informational purposes only, and should not be relied upon for trading purposes. Historical and current stock price performance data is not necessarily indicative of future ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $2 million led by CustomFit.com - 685 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $2m. 57% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: customfit.com at 21,000 USD Top ccTLD: leasing.co.uk at 9,999 USD Top “other” TLD: ekspres.net at 5,500 USD There were a few triple repeating letter sales in .Club with RRR.club leading the way at $3,000. ... read more ...
Mon 15th February 2016
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.Com Tops 125 Million Domain Registrations - According to Verisign (VRSN) the registry for .Com, the number of .Com registration crossed the 125 million mark in the Domain Name Base. The active zone file is just over 124 Million domain names. The active zone file does not include domain names that are not configured for use, and those in client or server hold status. At TheDomains.com when we report on .Com domain registrations we always use the Domain Name Base figure. In January 2014 the number of .com registrations stood at 112 Million. By ... read more ...
 
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The Story Of How Harvey Levin Bought The Domain TMZ.com For $5K - The Newyorker, just published a very interesting story on the history of TMZ, including the story on how the founder of the company, Harvey Levin bought the domain name for just $5,000 back in 2005. “The site needed a name, and “Feed the Beast,” “Frenzie,” and “Buzz Feed” were all considered, according to Rowe’s notes. Then, one day, a Telepictures executive suggested “Thirty Mile Zone.” It was an old movie-industry phrase, dating back to the mid-twentieth century, which designated ... read more ...
Sun 14th February 2016
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.Club Passes 9 Year Old .Mobi In Numbers of Domain Registrations - .Club has just passed .mobi in terms of domain name registrations. According to RegistrarStats.com .club has 691,522 domain registrations while .mobi is at 691,342 .Mobi become available to be registered in 2006. .Club was 1st available for general availability on May 7th 2014 making it less than 2 years old. According to registrarstats.com, .club becomes the 9th most registered TLD, including .com, .net and .org ... read more ...
Sat 13th February 2016
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LeBoeuf Corporation Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on Leboeuf.com - LeBoeuf Corporation (“Complainant”), represented by Jeffrey M. Rosenfeld of KRONENBERGER ROSENFELD, LLP, California, USA, has just been found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on the domain Leboeuf.com “”The three member panel of the Honorable Karl V. Fink (Ret.) (Chair), David J. Steele Esq., and The Hon Neil Anthony Brown QC found that the domain name was generic as the term “le boeuf” is French for “the beef” or “the ox”; found that the complainant had no registered trademark, ... read more ...
 
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Your Tax Dollars At Work: Clinton Department Of State Email's Shows Interest In A Domain - “”Domain Names: “The World We Want” Per your request, I have investigated the availability of internet domain names derived from or related to the phrase “The World We Want.” By way of summary, the most desirable names related to this phrase are already owned. However, at least one owner is plainly willing to sell and others appear to be potentially receptive to purchase offers. One of the most desirable domain names would be Worldwewant.com It was purchased on September 21, 2011 for ... read more ...
Fri 12th February 2016
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Market Recap 2/12/16 Web.com adult over 10% - Market Recap 2/12/16 Web.com (WWWW) was up over 10% today, the company posted earnings last night (Non-GAAP EPS were $0.66, three cents above estimates) and received several upgrades today. Verisign (VRSN) was up close to 4% today and closed at $76.97. The company reported earnings on Thursday. Tucows (TCX) was up over 5% on the day. Disclaimer – Any stock price and market data provided on our website is for informational purposes only, and should not be relied upon for trading purposes. Historical ... read more ...
 
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Rightside Establishes Wholly Foreign-Owned Enterprise in China & Plans To Be Licensed in 2016 - Rightside (NAME) announced today its expanded operations in China by establishing a Wholly Foreign-Owned Enterprise (WFOE). Rightside says that there are almost 90,000 domains registered in the their portfolio of 39 new gTLD’s in the Chinese market, with .LIVE, .NEWS, and .PUB being the most popular. There are currently 5.4 million new TLDs registered in China, which represents 45% of all new TLD registrations. China is requiring all domain name registries to acquire a license for their domain ... read more ...
 
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.Pro Domain Extension Hits All Time High Number of Domain Registrations - On November 15th, 2015 the restrictions on the TLD .Pro were lifted. Since it was approved in 2000, .Pro domain names had been restricted to to three classes of professions; lawyers, doctors, and accountants. According to Domainincite.com, “.pro started this July with about 122,000 registrations.” According to RegistrarStats.com, .Pro never hit 150,000 registrations when it was restricted but as of today according to .Pro domain registration sits at almost 170K domains, most of us wish we owned ... read more ...
 
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Verisign Working On Getting Contract To Operate .Com Registry For 10 More Years - In the earnings call today, Verisign (VRSN) announced that it was in “in the final stages of drafting the new Root Zone Maintainer Agreement with ICANN “to perform this Root Zone Maintainer role as a commercial service for ICANN upon the successful transition of the IANA functions.” “To ensure that root operations continue to perform at the same high level during the expected 10-year term of the Root Zone Maintainer Agreement, ICANN and VeriSign are in discussions to extend the term of the ... read more ...
 
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Verisign Expects Higher Non-Renewal Rates From Those 4th Q Domains Reg By Chinese Investors - Verisign reported its earnings for the 4th quarter of 2015 and financial results for 2015. In the earnings call today, Verisign made some interesting comments about that huge volume of .Com domain name registration we saw from Asia the 4th quarter of 2015: Bottom line Verisign expects those domain names registered in the 4th quarter, which those in the domain investor community, know consisted of a lot of numeric domain names NNNNNNNN.com going into the 8,9 and even 10 digits long, and domain names ... read more ...
 
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Web.com Buying Local Ad Co. Yodle for $342M Which Is About 40% of Its Market Cap - Web.com (NASDAQ:WEB) announced today it’s acquiring Yodle, a provider of local online ad/marketing services for 50K+ small businesses, for $300M in cash up-front + payments of $20M and $22M at the first and second anniversaries of the deal’s closing date. Web.com closed today with an $826M market cap. At a $342 Million dollar purchase price that represents over 40% of its market cap although like many stocks, the company is trading close to its 52 week low of $15.71 with a 52 week high of $26.04 Web.com ... read more ...
Thu 11th February 2016
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Market Recap 2/11/16 Verisign Reports Earnings Down in After Hours - Market Recap 2/11/16 Verisign (VRSN) reported earnings after the close, the stock was up on the day but is down in after hours. VeriSign, Inc. and subsidiaries (“Verisign”) reported revenue of $273 million for the fourth quarter of 2015, up 6.5 percent from the same quarter in 2014. Verisign reported net income of $102 million and diluted earnings per share (“diluted EPS”) of $0.76 for the fourth quarter of 2015, compared to net income of $65 million and diluted EPS of $0.48 for the same ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $1million led by VacationUSA.com -

Over a past week, 534 exchange took place on Sedo’s marketplace and around SedoMLS, totaling $1m.

 57% of sum sales were a outcome of Buy Now listings.

Highlights of open sales are:

  • Top .com: vacationusa.com at 20,000 USD
  • Top ccTLD: bestbaby.de during 3,900 EUR
  • Top “other” TLD: blt.net at 4,800 USD

Via: thedomains.com

Wed 10th February 2016
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Market Recap 2/10/16 Tucows adult 8.2% - Market Recap 2/10/16 Tucows (TCX) was the top performer on the day, after announcing a $40 million stock buyback the stock closed up 8.2%. Verisign (VRSN) was up over 1% today, earnings are out tomorrow. Disclaimer – Any stock price and market data provided on our website is for informational purposes only, and should not be relied upon for trading purposes. Historical and current stock price performance data is not necessarily indicative of future performance. The writer of this article has no ... read more ...