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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.

Fri 14th February 2014
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.London Launches Apr 29, Predicts Over 218K Registrations Just From Small Business - Dot London Domains Ltd (“Dot London”), has today announced that .LONDON will begin taking registrations on 29 April 2014, marking the formal launch of the .LONDON domain. More than 200,000 small businesses in London say they are likely to register a new .london internet address when the domain names go on sale at the end of April. A YouGov survey of small businesses in London found that more than one in four (26 per cent, equivalent to 218,140 companies ) were likely to register for a .london ... read more ...
 
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Lush Cosmetics Wins Trademark Battle With Amazon - Lush Cosmetics has won its high-profile trademark battle with Amazon, with the High Court ruling against the retail giant’s use of the word ‘lush’ in its search marketing. Insider Media covered the story, The cosmetics business, which is headquartered in Poole, took legal action against Amazon.co.uk and Amazon EU after complaining that the retailer was infringing its trademark. Lush does not permit its cosmetics to be sold on Amazon. However, visitors who typed ‘lush’ into the search box ... read more ...
 
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Domains Gone Wild - Girls Gone Wild is liquidating their domain names reports TMZ The company which filed for bankruptcy last year is liquidating their portfolio of 69 names. BestBreastsEver.com … MardiGrasInvasion.net … SpringBreakExplosion.com … WeddingSubmissionVideo.com Some more names include: – BannedFromTV.com– HottestMomentsEver.com– MyExGFClub.com– SexStarvedCollegeGirls.net– And practically every other GGW-themed name you can think of (GirlsGoneWild.com, GGWbus.com, GGWcams.com, GGWdating.com, ... read more ...
Thu 13th February 2014
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.Club Is The Platinum Sponsor For Domainfest & Will Launch the Landrush during The Conference - DomainSponsor®, the organizer of DOMAINFest®  announced that .CLUB will be the Platinum Sponsor for DOMAINFest Hollywood, which will be held from March 31 to April 2, 2014 at the luxurious Loews Hotel in Hollywood, California. The .CLUB gTLD will sponsor the welcome party and reception at DOMAINFest. During the conference .CLUB will launch its Land Rush period with thousands of premium quality names included at Land Rush prices. Over 60 registrars have already signed on, including Network Solutions, ... read more ...
 
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Domaining for Links - Peter van der Graaf wrote an article today on Search Engine Watch that deals with domaining for links. Van der Graaf writes that even though this is old school it is still a method that works for acquiring link value. From the article: What Domains Do You Buy? Domains with link value become available once the current owner has little use for it anymore. This happens in various occasions, which all have their unique signal for Google to pick up and act on when they suspect unnatural behavior. Expired ... read more ...
 
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SnapNames/Moniker 2014 Kick Off Premium Auction Is Live & Nova.com Has a $60K Bid - Moniker® and SnapNames®, both KeyDrive S. A.  today announced their 2014 Kick-Off Premium Auction catalog and the auction is in fact live. One domain name, Nova.com, already has a $60,000 bid however the reserve range is $50k- $100K and the domain has not hit reserve. The auction ends on March 6th at 3:15pm EST in according with Snapnames.com closing rules. Some of the more interesting domains include; 4k.com, Bop.com; Click.com; and handshake.com Here is a list of all the domain names in the ... read more ...
 
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.CEO Starts Sunrise Today & Releases Another Video To Celebrate - Registry operatory dotCEO TLD announced today it has entered its 30-day Sunrise period and issued another video to celebrate the occasion (which appears below) .CEO,  is being marketed to brand leaders,  in a partnership with dotCEO parent company PeopleBrowsr Inc. Jodee Rich, CEO of dotCEO TLD said: “The Internet is evolving from the days of dotCom to the many colors and flavors of new Top Level Domains. Instead of viewing domains as “addresses”, people will embrace domains as online “Identities”. The ... read more ...
 
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IBM Wins Its URS On IBM.ventures & IBM.Guru 6 Days After Filling - IBM has won the first Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) filed on new gTLD domain names. On February 6th IBM filed the first URS on the new gTLD domains IBM.ventures and IBM.Guru Yesterday the Nation Arbitration Forum is showing as the domain names being in SUSPENDED FINAL status. Unlike the UDRP dispute resolution system, the winner of a URS does not get ownership of the domain name but only gets the right to have the domain name suspended from the registrant. The “decision” should be issued today.   Google+Michael ... read more ...
 
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UDRP Filed Over ThamesRivers.com - FC Management Limited has filed a UDRP on the domain name ThamesRivers.com The domain name ThamesRivers.com is the site of the Thames River Capital Group Limited which “is a privately owned investment company. The firm provides its services to institutional investors and entrepreneurs . It launches and manages equity, fixed income, and balanced mutual funds and hedge funds for its clients. The firm invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. It was founded in 1998 and ... read more ...
Wed 12th February 2014
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Tucows Reports: Revenue Up 11% But Misses on Earnings & Revenue - Tucows Inc. (NASDAQ:TCX, TSX:TC), reported its financial results for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2013. Although Tucows revenue increased 11% but missed by $0.98M. off of estimates Summary Financial Results All figures are in U.S. dollars. (In Thousands of US Dollars, Except Per Share Data) 3 Months 3 Months 12 Months 12 Months Ended Dec. Ended Dec. Ended Dec. Ended Dec. 31, 2013 31, 2012 ... read more ...
 
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The .Com Firewall: Is A .Com Registration Better Protection From New gTLD’s Than Trademarks? - An interesting point of view on new gTLD’s, trademarks and .com registrants was published today by Cybrands.com Basically the author of the post is claiming that owning a .com can be better protection against potentially infringing new gTLD domain names than a trademark. He calls it the .com firewall: “In computing terms, firewall has many definitions.” In domaining terms, what I’m referring to is the practice of registering the .com version of a domain name which can effectively quash incentive ... read more ...
 
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BrandShield Raises $1.4 Million & Launches Its Brand Protection Software System In US - BrandShield, announced today backed by $1.4 million in seed funding its rolling out of the Brand Protection Software System in North America. BrandShield helps companies combat online brand abuse from brand parasites that steal traffic, scam users, sell counterfeit goods, register domain names in violation of trademark or otherwise impersonate or infringe brands online. BrandShield provides organizations of all sizes with the ability to easily identify brand infringement across the web and automatically ... read more ...
 
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Mike Daniels Former NSI Chairman: Dot com Became a Brand of Choice & we Believe it Will Be in a Future - Mike Daniels who served as Network Solutions (NSI) chairman from 1995 – 2000 and orchestrated the sale of Network Solutions to VeriSign for $19.3 billion in 2000 shared his thoughts on the new gTLD’s with BroadwayWorld.com Will the new crop of domain registration companies be as successful as Network Solutions? Probably not. Dot com remains the most important domain because that was what we publicized in the mid-to-late-1990′s during the .com boom days. Dot com became the brand of choice and ... read more ...
 
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.Toyko & .Nagoya Selects Pool.com For Sunrise & Landrush Auctions - .Tokyo and .Nagoya, announce their partnership with Pool.com and its auction services platform to help accelerate their introduction to global markets. “Auctions are the best way to resolve contending applications during the introduction of new top-level domains,” says Pool.com CEO Richard Schreier. “They offer open access, quickly set true market value for web addresses, ensure the name space will draw real users and give the registry the resources to continually invest in technology and services.” “We ... read more ...
 
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.Vegas To Launch Summer of 2014 & Registrar Expects Registrations To Easily Exceed 900,000 - According to a press release out this morning the  .Vegas Registry is expecting to launch in the Summer of 2014 and expects 900,000 registrations. According to the PR .Vegas will have a 60 day Sunrise period then right to Go Live with no Landrush or other priority period in between. Jim Trevino, CEO, of Dot Vegas, Inc is quoted as saying: “We are doing everything we can to ensure that those with trademarked brands, along with local Las Vegas companies and individuals, have the first opportunity ... read more ...
 
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Breaking: The EU Wants Global Control Over ICANN In Wake Of NSA Revelations - In a press release issued by the European Commission this morning entitled “Commission to pursue role as honest broker in future global negotiations on Internet Governance”. The EU stated the intend to “pursue role as honest broker in future global negotiations on Internet Governance” “”In the wake of large-scale Internet surveillance and reduced trust in the internet, the European Commission today proposes a key reform to the way the Internet is managed and run. The proposal calls for ... read more ...
 
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DomainHoldings Launches New Ad Exchange Bidtellect; Names Lon Otremba as the CEO - Adweek.com just covered Domain Holdings new ad exchange Bidtellect and the company’s new CEO Lon Otremba who previously ran the social gaming firm Tylted. “Bidtellect is the brainchild of John Ferber, who along with his brother Scott co-founded Advertising.com in 2004.” “Otremba and Ferber said they’ve built a new tech platform that can help brands buy native ads in an automated fashion, at scale. “ “That contradicts much of the conventional wisdom surrounding native ads, which depending ... read more ...
 
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Survey: Internet Trolls are Sadists - CNN did a story on Internet trolls and whether or not they are psychopaths. The story looked at what is behind the trolling and if there is pleasure gained in such activity. From the article – If you’ve ever complained that the trolls junking up online comment sections are a bunch of sadistic psychopaths, you might be onto something. An online survey by a group of Canadian researchers suggests that Internet trolls are more likely than others to show signs of sadism, psychopathy and “Machiavellianism”: ... read more ...
 
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Go Daddy/Afternic Weekly Sales sum $1.9 Million -

Go Daddy/Afternic Sales totalled  $1,965,970

Radiant.org was a tip sale for a week during $23,000, .org also took series dual with trees.org during $18,500.

3 names were tied for initial place in .com, Teacha.com,PropertyCapital.com and AspireTechnology.com all sole for $15,000.

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Infographic “Beginner’s Guide To Domain Auctions” - Who Is Hosting This put together an infographic that is a primer on domain auctions that may be helpful to send to clients or prospects who don’t really understand domain auctions. (click to enlarge) ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Opens Up Comment Period On Inconsistent Decisions On CAR/.CARS and .CAM/.COM - ICANN has just opened up a comment period “to solicit community input regarding a proposed review mechanism to address perceived inconsistent Expert Determinations in the String Confusion Objection process in the New gTLD Program” The comment period is limited to the Expert Determinations made on String Confusion objections for .CAR/.CARS and .CAM/.COM. The comment period closes on March 11, at 23:59 UTC To file a comment you can do so by sending an email here. The String Confusion Objections ... read more ...
 
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1st UDRP Over New gTLD Domain, As Canyon Bicycles Gmbh Files Over Canyon.Bike - Canyon Bicycles GmbH has filed what appears to be the first  UDRP on a new gTLD domain name Canyon.bike The domain name was registered on February 5th under privacy at Godaddy.com Although this marks the first new gTLD domain name hit with a UDRP, IBM filed either a UDRP or a URS a few days ago on the domain names  IBM.Guru and IBM.Ventures It appears that as we have chatted about while trademark holders are not playing the sunrise registration game or the domain blocking game in a big way they ... read more ...
Tue 11th February 2014
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Sedo Transactions Total $1.7 Million - 793 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.7 Million 48% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: ·         Top .coms: cornerstonehomes.com at 150,000 USD ·         Top ccTLD: gentz.de at 10,000 EUR ·         Top “other” TLD: nxt.org at 10,000 EUR   <![CDATA[]]> Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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1st Aftermarket Of .Guru Domains Launches & Is Full Of Trademarks - gurudomainnamesforsale.guru which appears to be the first aftermarket site dedicated to .Guru domain name launched today. The site unfortunately has many .guru domain names listed for sale that are trademarked terms, including: ChickFilA.guru GoldmanSachs.guru NeimanMarcus.guru CocaCola.guru MGM.guru PGA.guru TheMasters.guru TheUSOpen.guru JohnnyFootball.guru Some generic’s for sale include: OklahomaFootball.guru AlabamaFootball.guru TexasFootball.guru The site also has several political names: Hillary.guru Obama.guru Clinton.guru RNC.guru DNC.guru TeaParty.guru JebBush.guru ... read more ...
 
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Sedo To Hold .Club Premium Winter Sports Domain Auction Feb 19-26th -   Sedo, and .CLUB Domains have partnered to offer a Winter Sports Auction of never before released .CLUB domain names. The auction will place February 19-26, and will include 25 premium winter sports-related names with the .CLUB extension, including Snowboarding.club, Skiing.club, IceHockey.club, figureskating.club, sochi.club alpineskiing.club, skiers.club, and speedskating.club to name a few. The highest bidder will be given first priority to acquire the domain name from .CLUB at the winning ... read more ...