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.

Wed 30th April 2014
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Autos.de Sells For $166,000 - The domain name Autos.de just crossed the Sedo sales wiring selling for for 120,000 Euro’s or around $166,000 based on today’s exchange rates. The buyer of the domain appears to be DAY Investments GmbH out of Austria whose website is at Day.eu The previous owner of the domain was one4vision GmbH which acquired the domain in 2007. Congrats to the buyer and seller. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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ThreatConnect Partners With DomainTools & Farsight Security - According to a press release just out, Cyber Squared Inc. which owns ThreatConnect™, a leading threat intelligence platform, entered into a partnership with DomainTools and Farsight Security, Inc. to provide ThreatConnect users with the industry’s most powerful domain and passive DNS intelligence. “We know that the most sophisticated and mature organizations are using our data to assess network-counterparty configuration history and associated risk, and to amplify the value of their threat ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines Wins Auctions For .Garden & .Yoga Loses .Deals & .Property & Pays $5.97M - The Directors of Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX) are delighted to announce that following the private auctions held last week for .deals, .garden, .property and .yoga, the Company has secured the uncontested application rights for .garden and .yoga. The net cost to the Company for securing the sole application status for .garden and .yoga was approximately $5.97 million (circa £3.6 million), once the proceeds of the .deals and .property private auctions are taken into account. The above ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Transactions Total $1.1 Million Led By FlashCards.com For $250,000 - During the past week 445 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.1 Million Dollars 48% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · Top .coms: flashcards.com at 250,000 USD · Top ccTLD: tel.fr at 22,000 EUR · Top “other” TLD: ejm.net at 9,800 USD     Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Tue 29th April 2014
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Go Daddy/Afternic Sells $1.7million in domains for a week -

GoDaddy and Afternic’s reportable weekly domain sales for a week of 4/21/14 – 4/27/14.

The tip sale for a week was Modernize.com during $25,000.

Prostate.info was a tip non .com sale during $15,000

Total Sales $1,778,547 for a week.

Buffalo.org was a good buy imo for $2,100 and Mike.co sole for $2,500 with this already adult on a site:

Because .com was taken !

Via: thedomains.com

 
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Twitter Reports Earnings – Stock Down 9 % in after hours trading - Twitter just released their earnings for Q1 2014, earnings were actually better than expected. Monthly average user numbers continue to be a problem and disappoint analysts. Tech Crunch wrote: Twitter just released its earnings report for the first quarter of 2014, saying it has grown its monthly active user base to 255 million. Will that be enough to avert more awkward questions about growth during today’s analyst conference call? Well, maybe … but probably not. This means MAUs grew 5.8 percent ... read more ...
 
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Uniregstry’s Affiliate Program To Date: 5,367 Clicks No Transactions, No Revenue - We turned on the Uniregisty’s Affiliate program about 10 days ago, that places a banner on the bottom of parked pages marketing new gTLD’s registrations. So far the results have been less than impressive As you can see below we have had almost 5,500 clicks, no transactions and no revenue. Today, Domaininvesting.com, wrote about some new landing pages for Franks own portfolio: “In place of the PPC links, Schilling has put a call to action to encourage visitors to search for domain names ending ... read more ...
 
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NetNames Acquires WebIP - NetNames, an online brand protection and corporate domain name management, has acquired WebIP, a leader in corporate domain name management in the Australian market. This acquisition provides access for Australian corporations to NetNames’ online brand protection services, which are used by many global brands to prevent counterfeit sales and other forms of online brand infringement. I n addition, Web IP’s clients will have access to NetNames’ global domain name registration platform and the ... read more ...
 
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I Gave Up Bahamas.Tv With a $500 Annual Bill & Got The .Com For $98 - So as the new gTLD are rolling out and we see the pricing that many are carrying some of them  with an annual renewal fees that reminds us of the .TV days I wanted to share a couple of personal decisions we made regarding our own portfolio. As most of you know the .TV registry had premium renewal prices on most of all their good premium domain names until a few years ago when they accepted a one time premium payment and normal renewal fees. However old legacy .TV domains that had an annual premium ... read more ...
 
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Go Daddy Continues Global Expansion - Go Daddy is expanding all around the globe. The company now  Supports Localized Product Support in 37 Countries, 42 Markets, 44 Currencies 17 Languages. Go Daddy put out a release announcing some of their expansion plans. GoDaddy, the world’s largest technology provider dedicated to small businesses, today announced its continued expansion into international markets. After beginning this international expansion fewer than two years ago and a recent successful release across Latin America, GoDaddy ... read more ...
 
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U.S. Government Looking to Cash In Seized Silk Road Bitcoins - As a decentralized currency Bitcoin has proven itself to function well with the “If the majority feels a change should be made” then it can, and promptly like with the double spend bug a few years ago that required miners to adopt a new fork. This is an excellent advantage as it can be adaptable but not easily manipulated. I believe we, the Community, Miners, and Dev’s should use the power again, this time to remove the seized coins as they represent a huge threat. Investors all over the world ... read more ...
Mon 28th April 2014
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Ficep.com Registrant Wins Again and Panelist Declares RDNH - Second time around is no better than the first for Ficep SPA, they filed a second UDRP to try to get the domain FICEP.com. This was not company vs domain investor but rather an Italian company founded in 1930 vs a French company founded in 1978. The panelist did not seem too happy that the Italian company filed a second UDRP on the same name with basically all the same facts.  Janet Seager went on to say, Furthermore the Panel finds that the Complainant has engaged in RDNH because, at the time that ... read more ...
 
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The Prediction Made On TheDomains Comes True As The 2 Chinese IDN Both Make The Top 5 - Back on March 19th we published an interview with Simon Cousins about the two extensions TLD Registry is rolling out the Chinese IDN for Online (.在线) as well as  Dot Chinese Website (中文网) Back then Simon told TheDomains.com that: “I would say we have a greater than 50% chance of both of our strings being in the top 5 new gTLD’s in terms of domain name registrations  at the end of landrush.” Well it took a couple of days longer until the 1st day of general availability (GA) but  ... read more ...
 
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Live.TV offered for $500,000 Joins Small Group of non dot coms offered for $500,000 plus - Live.tv was reported sold on Namepros by Ammar from Quest Financial. He has been in communication with Cyber Tavern and was working with them to get the sale reported to DN Journal. (Live.tv is NSFW) Live.TV enters the exclusive club of reported  non .com sales that have sold for $500,000 and up. Shopping.de    $2,858,945 9/2009 Sedo Kredit.de          $1,169,175     Sedo     11/25/08 Cruises.co.uk  $1,099,798     Pvt Sale     2/5/08 Poker.org         $1,000,000 ... read more ...
Sun 27th April 2014
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USA Today Interviews Web.com CEO - Steve Strauss did an interview with the CEO of WEB.com, David Brown on USA Today. The article did not mention domains specifically but more of a focus on small business. This is now the focus of the some of the bigger companies out there in the space. Since Blake Irving has taken over at Go Daddy his focus has been squarely on small business. No more ads with provocative clothing or language, but rather a focus on how Go Daddy can be a one stop shop for small businesses online and for those looking ... read more ...
 
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Fashion Television Media Acquires Fashion.tv for $125,000 - Fashion.tv sells for $125,000. First off tip of the hat to Ammar from Legacy Fund who did some research and posted on Namepros that Fashion.tv,Fun.tv and Play.tv have all been sold by Cyber Tavern. Cyber Tavern was a partnership which was headed by the late Igal Lichtman. .TV investors checking the whois over the years, regularly saw the name Cyber Tavern or Mrs Jello. The names owned under Cyber Tavern he once told me were names he owned with partners where the Mrs Jello names were just him. I interviewed ... read more ...
Sat 26th April 2014
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Venture Beat “Domain bullion rush: Why your association needs to pronounce Chinese online” - Kathy Nielsen from Sedo did a guest post on Venture Beat discussing domain names and the upcoming Chinese new gtlds. From the article: By now, many savvy businesses and investors have heard about the expansion of the domain name system. New extensions (known as “top-level domains” or “TLDs”) are joining .com, .org, .net and the others we’ve grown accustomed to – extensions including generic names such as .bike, .camera and .club, as well as brand name extensions such as .Canon, .Deloitte ... read more ...
 
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Xapo Looks To Bring Bitcoin Debit Card to Market - Robert MCMillan of Wired wrote an article on the upcoming Bitcoin debit card from Xapo. The article points out that there are some other prepaid Bitcoin cards out there, the author noted they feel rather “fly by night”. Xapo has actually raised $20 million in VC and is looking to comply with U.S. law. From the article: Bitcoin may be the future of digital money, but it has a big problem here in the United States: why use it to buy anything when millions of merchants already accept debit and ... read more ...
Fri 25th April 2014
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After The Meeting On Internet Governance NETmundial Publishes Draft “Outcome Document” - The Global Multistakeholder two day meeting on the Future of Internet Governance Netmundial just concluded in Sao Paulo, Brazil . They report that 1,480 people attended the the meeting from 97 nations. “During the two-day event, the participants from 97 countries had the opportunity to contribute to the revision of the document through the discussion sessions. The sessions still consider the 1,370 comments made by the public on the outcome document, published on the official website of NETmundial, ... read more ...
 
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Our Picks of 400+ Domains From The 12K Domain .Club Landrush List - The Landrush period for the new gTLD .Club closes next week on May 1st. Land Rush is the period during which  .Club domain name is available for registration which has for an extra fee  you get priority ahead of general availability which begins on May 7th Simply put if you  place a Landrush application on an available  .Club domain (reserve domains, domains registered to trademark holders in Sunrise and those domains on the ICANN collision list are not available) you will get the domain. In ... read more ...
 
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A Look At The Wearable Tech Space - Wearable Technology has been a big buzzword in the tech space and in domaining over the last year. The Wearable Tech showcase and discussion thread on Namepros has had 393 replies and over 16,000 views. There has been a lot going on in the news from people wearing Google Glass in San Francisco getting mugged, to Google having a one day sale and selling out Google Glass, to the recent news about Nike shutting down their fuel band product. ZDNet is out today with the news Google Glass is available ... read more ...
Thu 24th April 2014
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Verisign Reports: Revenue adult 5%; There are 128.5 Million .Com & .Nets As of Mar 31 - ; VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), today reported financial results for the first quarter of 2014, reporting revenue of $249 million for the first quarter of 2014, up 5% from the same quarter in 2013. Verisign reported net income of $94 million and diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.64 for the first quarter of 2014, compared to net income of $85 million and diluted EPS of $0.52 in the same quarter in 2013. The operating margin was 56.1 percent for the first quarter of 2014 compared to 56.4 percent ... read more ...
 
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Cannabis Capital Acquires WebCongress.com In A Deal Valued At $25 Million - Cannabis Capital Corp. (OTCBB: CBCA) announce today it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire WebCongress, Inc.. The package deal is valued at over $25 Million, based on CBCA’s current share price, and consists of a combination of cash, shares, and management fees. This is an actual operating business and not just a domain name. Cannabis Capital Corp will retain the current WebCongress executive management team to continue driving the growth of WebCongress. WebCongress produces global digital ... read more ...
 
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The Domain Business Can’t Make The Customer Pay For Someone Else’s Mistake - Kevin Murphy over at Domainincite.com wrote a post yesterday, entitled “Guy hit with $1,600 bill a month after registering “premium” name for $12.99″ The post goes onto explain: “One DI reader, who said he’d rather not be named, received a bill from the registrar today for $1587.01 for a .みんな domain name he hand-registered March 10 for the base fee of $12.99. The email from 101domain stated that unless he pays the bill by 5pm PST tomorrow, his domain will be deleted: It has come ... read more ...
 
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Publicly Traded Company Announces Acquisition of FindIt.com - In a pretty unusually worded press release sent out by Artemis Energy Holdings, Inc. (OTC Pink: ARTT) (PINKSHEETS: ARTT) it said it “recently entered into an agreement to purchase the domain name Findit.com. The company has opened escrow and made the initial payment.” “The domain Findit.com has been transferred to Escrow.com and Artemis Energy Holdings, Inc. now has control of the Findit.com URL. ” “The deal provides Artemis Energy Holdings, Inc. to make monthly payments while using the ... read more ...