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.

Thu 20th February 2014
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Is ICANN Leaving The US? Here Is Akram Atallah Of ICANN’s Answer - At the Fairwinds Beyond The Dot conference today that was held in Washington DC the question was asked to Akram Atallah of ICANN; is ICANN planning on moving from the United States? Here is the answer of Mr Atallah: There are no plans to move outside of the US, but you have to be somewhere, your have to be incorporated somewhere, so its an ongoing issue When ICANN was first created by contract with the US,  it was always envisioned that the multistake model would work so well that at a certain point, ... read more ...
 
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Go Daddy/Afternic Reports Sales of $2.16 Million for a Week -

Go Daddy/Afternic reports $2,168,125 in sales for a week.

GoodNeighbors.com was a tip .com during $25,000

Diamonds.info was a tip non .com during $20,000

Via: thedomains.com

Wed 19th February 2014
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.Wiki Picks Namejet.com For Sunrise and Landrush Auctions - Top Level Design, LLC, the applicant for the new top level domain .wiki, has selected NameJet, to operate the sunrise and landrush auctions and help with future premium auctions. Sunrise is expected to begin in March, 2014. The .wiki TLD will make wikis more valuable through greater visibility and ease of use. Most Internet users are familiar with the concept of wikis, thanks to Wikipedia.org’s status as one of the most highly trafficked websites in the world. “There is something unique and ... read more ...
 
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Marchex Reports & Archeo Sells 262 Domains For 1.6 Million In 4th Quarter of 2013 - Marchex, Inc. (NASDAQ:MCHX), today announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2013. Archeo Q4 Business Highlights: Revenue. Archeo non-GAAP revenue was $3.7 million for the fourth quarter of 2013, which excludes domain sales recognized in GAAP revenue. Domains sales. During the fourth quarter of 2013, Archeo sold a total of 262 domain names that yielded $1.6 million. To save you the math, that is just over $6,100 per domain name which is well below the ... read more ...
 
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.BUZZ Release Premium Domain List With Prices As High As $46,880 - The new gTLD .Buzz has released its premium list of domain names on its website, names.buzz . The most expensive domain name on the list is Games.Buzz  at $46,880 but its on the ICANN collision list so its not quiet available yet. The most expensive domain not on the collision list is Jobs.Buzz at  $42,000 Business.Buzz  is priced at  $33,500 Clothes.buzz is priced at $30,000 NewYork.buzz is priced at $28,300 Software.Buzz is priced $16,800 Also priced at $16,800 each are Consulting.buzz, NYC.buzz, ... read more ...
 
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If You Want To Bid On A .Club Auction Domain At Sedo You Need To Send In A Form -   The Sedo.com auction for 25 .club domain names started today but you won’t be able to bid on any of them unless and until you fill out the Auction Bidder Certification form print it out and submit it to Sedo.com via email or faxed. This requirement seems to apply to all bidders even those who have been qualified by Sedo in the past, even those authorized to bid $10K or more even $100K or more in other auctions. The .Club auction like other themed Sedo auction only last a week and I know many ... read more ...
 
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.Org Adds 206K Registrations; Up 2.6% in 2013; 85% Of Registrants Renew For 3 Years Or More - PIR, the not-for-profit operator of the .ORG Top Level domain name extension, today released the results of its bi-annual domain name report, “The Dashboard,” detailing the increased growth of .ORG throughout 2013. The report reveals that 206,542 new .ORG domains were registered from January to December 2013, bringing the total number of .ORG domains under registration (DUM) to more than 10,346,000 globally. Other findings outlined in “The Dashboard” include the following: · The number ... read more ...
 
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The New gTLD .HIV Project Has Pretty Creative Way Of Distributing Money To Non-Profits - At the Fairwinds Beyond The Dot conference this morning a presentation by the supporters of the new gTLD .HIV explained that part of the project will “generate funds to support the dedicated all over the world, raise awareness of the topic HIV/AIDS and work against the stigmatization of people living with the virus.” The .HIV new gTLD is being described as more than just a domain name, its  “A Digital Red Ribbon”, the Red Ribbon of the digital age if you will. Out of the he planned retail ... read more ...
 
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.UNO Wants To Be The Spanish Equivalent of .Com - At the Fairwinds Beyond The Dot conference this morning Shaul Jolles President and CEO of the the .Uno registry laid out his goal for the .UNO registry .UNO wants to be the .COM to the spanish speaking market. .UNO will globally connect over 490 million Spanish speaking businesses, consumers and individuals. Mr. Jolles in laying out his vision cited some live .UNO “sites” However each and everyone is being forwarded to site built on either a .com or a .org Here are the sites cited by Mr. Jolles: AARP.Uno ... read more ...
 
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13 Year Old SocialPoint.com Saved In UDRP - Social Point, S.L. of Barcelona, Spain, just lost it attempt to grab the domain name socialpoint.com who was represented by Erika L. Hengst, Esquire of Florida The domain name SocialPoint was registered on August 30, 2001. The Complainant is the developer of social games such as “Social Empires”, “Dragon City”, “Monster Legends” and “Social Wars” that can be played through the website “www.facebook.com” on streaming or downloaded to be played with iOS and Android apps. The Complainant ... read more ...
 
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Capturing a Gold by Stepping Up Your Game With a Right Registrations - FairWinds Partners  is hosting the Beyond the dot conference in Washington D.C. today, Michael is at the conference for TheDomains.com and RightoftheDot.com The 2014 Beyond the Dot Conference will be held at the Newseum tomorrow, February 19. The event will bring together policymakers, corporations, non-profits, government officials, and average Internet users to explore and discuss what they will mean to all Internet users and how they will change the way that we approach Internet navigation, ... read more ...
Tue 18th February 2014
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Dot Desi Reseller, LLC selects LogicBoxes’ Vertical Integration solutions for a .desi gTLD - Dot Desi Reseller, LLC selects LogicBoxes’ Vertical Integration solutions for the .desi gTLD LogicBoxes, the Vertical Integration solutions provider for New gTLD Registries today announced that it has been selected by Dot Desi Reseller, LLC (an affiliate of Desi Networks, LLC Registry for .desi gTLD) to manage their wholesale and retail infrastructure and provide marketing assistance. As part of the deal, LogicBoxes will provide a custom Vertical Integration solutions package. LogicBoxes will ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Transaction Total $1.8 Million Led By One Of Ours Malls.com; Also 1st Reported new gTLD Sale - Sedo just reported 743 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.8  million dollars, led by one of Our domains (MostWantedDomains.com) Malls.com which sold for $320,000 48% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. For the first time, the sales list includes an nTLD sale that was transferred successfully on Sedo’s marketplace: finde.singles (“finde” is German and means “find”) which sold for 2,000 Euro’s Here are all the reportable sales:   Google+Michael ... read more ...
 
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Several one minute new gtlds listed for sale in newsletter - There are several one letter new gtlds that were listed in the Toby Clements newsletter today. I.directory$6,250   idirectory.com is developed X.estate   $5,000    xestate.com Buy Domains parked page I.equipment$3,950 iequipment.com redirects to Tequipment.net U.estate   $3,500     uestate.com does not resolve U.clothing $3,500  uclothing.com is developed N.clothing $1,300 nclothing redirects to nclothing.tumblr.com F.clothing $1,300 fclothing.com is showing the index for its site V.clothing ... read more ...
 
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Sedo 2013 Annual Market Study - Sedo released their 2013 Annual Market Study, they also included an infographic of the year in review. 4 of the top 10 sales were handled by Sedo brokers $577 was the median price across all sales $1,893 was the mean price across all sales (click to enlarge) ... read more ...
 
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Candy Crush Saga Maker King.com Filing for IPO - We have written a couple times about King.com and their intellectual property goals of trademarking the words candy and saga. Today the company announced they are looking to do an IPO. The company will look to trade under the symbol KING. CNET covered the story King Digital Entertainment, a digital-gaming provider perhaps best known for its Candy Crush Saga title, has filed papers with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to go public. King’s statement with the SEC is exceedingly short ... read more ...
 
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CentralNic Signs Agreement with Domain Venture Partners - CentralNic signed a deal with Domain Venture Partners as stated in the press release below. Central Nic is a publicly traded company on the London Aim, the stock is up about 2.4 % to 84.5 pence. Domain Venture Partners is a fund that has been set up by new gtld applicant Famous Four Media. Press Release: CentralNic plc (AIM:CNIC), the internet platform business which derives revenues from the worldwide sale of internet domain names, today announces that it has signed an agreement (“agreement”) ... read more ...
Mon 17th February 2014
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JD.com Might Have Sold For As Much As $5 Million - Back last March, we reported that the domain name JD.com was purchased by China’s” leading direct B2C e-commerce company”, Jingdong , who bought it to to re-brand from  360buy.com According to the company, Jingdong had 35 million active users and 80 million registered users as of  December 2012. Today our buddy George Kirikos reported that browsing through some SEC filing the domain may have sold for as much as $5 Million dollars http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1549802/000104746914000443/a2218025zf-1.htm ... read more ...
 
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“Exciting Times for TLD Holdings as .London Launch Looms” - ProactiveInvestors.co.uk did a small write up on TLD Holdings the company which just recently raised another $33 million and said they would change their name to Minds+Machines. The stock is up 11% today, of course the stock trades for a very low price so it does not take much to get a large percentage move. I can say this is a perfect example of procrastination on my part, as I constantly was having discussion with a couple friends when the stock was at 5 1/2 pence. I felt it was a cheap hedge in ... read more ...
Sun 16th February 2014
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Redirecting a .com to a .clothing ? - DJChuang.com did a small article on companies actively using a .clothing domain. They also noted what the sites used to be, A couple redirect to the .com as expected. LocalUnderdog.clothing which used to use LocalUnderdog.com does not even have the .com pointing it just does not resolve. One, CountryWear.clothing is noted as used to be HorseandHoof.eu, now there are no redirects, both sites are the same, they say they are redirecting horseandhoof but that is not happening yet. They used a quote from ... read more ...
Sat 15th February 2014
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Look out Bitcoin, Here Comes NoFiatCoin - BitCoin has certainly had a tumultuous week, from exchange problems and transfers frozen to a $2.7 million theft, this caused Venture Beat to ask if the end was near for Bitcoin. Silk Road 2.0, a black market drug-trading site based on untraceable Bitcoins, reports that 4,474 Bitcoins, valued at about $2.7 million, have been stolen from the site. The virtual currency is encrypted computer code that is stored in a virtual wallet, and only a limited number of Bitcoins are created. The site’s administrator, ... read more ...
 
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The Russians Are Forwarding The Official Site of The Olympics Sochi.Ru To a .Com Sochi2014.com - If you have watched any part of the Winter Olympics from Sochi, and I know you have, you have undoubted sighted a Sochi.ru domain name banner that is flying across the the venues. One of the readers of thedomains.com points out that although the Sochi.ru domain name is being displayed hundreds of times each day on television stations all around the world,  if you type the domain in it forwards to Sochi2014.com I would say it is interesting that the Russian who are an extremely proud nation are ... read more ...
Fri 14th February 2014
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Domainfest To Feature Private Concert With Stone Temple Pilots -     DomainSponsor has just updated the Domainfest site and the on Tuesday night party will be  held in a top secret location but will feature a private concert with legendary, Grammy award winning rock band Stone Temple Pilots with Chester Bennington! “It wouldn’t be Hollywood without a VIP event.” “That’s why we’re treating DomainFest full conference attendees to a private concert with legendary, Grammy award winning rock band Stone Temple Pilots with Chester Bennington! “Venue ... read more ...
 
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Deals.XYZ Sells For $8,100 On NameJet.com - In a Namejet.com auction which just closed today the domain name Deals.xyz just sold for $8,100. The price marks the highest amount paid for a .xyz domain name, a new gTLD extension which hasn’t even been delegated yet. If should be noted that the application fee for .XYZ was $185,000 so this one domain name repays the registry 4% of the application fee. We have already heard of aftermarket sales of recently released new gTLD domain names, but this has to be a record for a new gTLD prior to delegation Congrats ... read more ...