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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.

Mon 5th October 2015
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Big Up Swing In Personal Domain Registration To Point To Social Media Sites - GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY), and Verisign (VRSN) are seeing an upswing in people registering “personal domain names” just to point them to their social media sites. It seems people have gotten the word that they don’t control their social media pages, the underlying social media company’s do so they are registering these personal domain names and pointing them to a their social media page. According to a press release Godaddy published today said they are seeing an increase of 37% of such domains ... read more ...
 
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Comcast Launches "Watchable" Video Service, Paid Reported "Six Figures" For Domain Name - Comcast has launched a new digital video platform to take on YouTube, Facebook and more with the brand name of Watchable. Comcast has secured the exact matching .com domain name to use for its newest video brand, with the stand alone website being at: Watchable.com The latest product, Watchable.com, is a free video service and focuses on videos from online services like Vice, BuzzFeed, GoPro and more via an iPhone app, web-based player or directly on Xfinity. So when did Comcast buy the domain name ... read more ...
Sat 3rd October 2015
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Publicly Traded Autodesk, Inc. Purchases Graphic.com Domain Name From GoDaddy.com - Publicly traded company Autodesk, Inc. has purchased the premium generic domain name Graphic.com from another public company, GoDaddy.com. GoDaddy is listed on NYSE: GDDY with a market cap of $3.99 Billion. Autodesk is listed on NASDAQ: ADSK which has a $9.95 Billion market cap. The domain name was part of the domain name portfolio GoDaddy acquired from Marchex in a $28.1 Million dollar deal in April 2015. How much did Graphic.com sell for? That is a good question but not something disclosed at ... read more ...
 
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Netflix Loses It's 2nd URS This Week & Why This May Kill Off The URS - Netflix has lost it’s 2nd Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) decision of the week this time on the domain name Netflix.news A few days ago we wrote about Netflix losing the URS on the domain name Netflix.website in what we described as the strangest decision of the year, which was decided by the same Examiner as this case, David J. Steele Esq. Here we go again: The domain name doesn’t resolve but the domain holder said “I registered this domain with the intention of creating a fan site, with news ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD .Miami Gets Almost 5,000 Registrations After It's 1st Day Of Availability - The new domain name extension .Miami , which had it’s first day of General Availability yesterday, where it could be registered on a first come, first served basis got almost 5K registration including around 200 in Sunrise. According to ntldstats.com, .Miami had 4,959 domain names in the zone after its full day of GA. The Godaddy family of registrars, dominated the top 10 of domain registrars of .Miami taking 8 out of the top 10 spots and getting over 55% of all .Miami registrations. .Miami is ... read more ...
Fri 2nd October 2015
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Stolen Domain Name XAG.com Returned Via UDRP - Michael Evans and Chord Consulting Inc. d/b/a XAG (“Complainant”), represented by John Berryhill,just got the stolen domain name xag.com returned in a one member panel UDRP decision: John J. Upchurch found the Complainant has common law rights in the XAG mark through dating back to 2009 and found the domain holder registered and used the domain name in bad faith because it obtained the domain name through theft. “Complainant has provided evidence of previously owning the domain name in dispute, ... read more ...
 
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Three Letter Domain ABG.com Held By Brand Protection Company CSC Hit With UDRP - The three-letter domain name ABG.com has gotten hit with a UDRP. The domain name is being held under brand protection company CSC Corporate Domains, Inc on behalf of an unknown client The domain is not resolving at the moment. It appears the domain was sold in the past few days having been listed for sale at igloo.com It’s not uncommon for the big corporate brand protection companies like CSC or Mark Monitor to hold domains for their clients in their own name for a period of time. The company ... read more ...
 
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Frank Schilling's DomainNameSales Is Hiring Again; But You Still Have to Move To The Cayman's - I got this email from Frank Schilling’s DomainNameSales.com that they are expanding their 25 person sales team once again. A little over 2 years ago we put out the message that DomainNameSales.com was hiring and a bunch of people made a life changing move to the Cayman Islands and join the company. Well DomainNameSales.com is hiring again and they asked us to let people know they are looking for “aggressive/talented sales people and they do NOT have to have industry experience” “If your looking ... read more ...
 
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Here are Some .NYC Collision Domains That Won't Be Available To Be Registered Next Week - .NYC updated it’s list of domain names it will be releasing from the collision list next week. The collision domains will be release on 8 October 2015, these domains are being offered on a first come first served basis at normal registration fees with no premium renewal fees. There will be no auctions other than possibly at the registrar level for these domain name. The applicable names will be released in random order beginning at 3:00pm EDT and will be completed by 5:00pm EDT or sooner. Someone ... read more ...
 
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Namejet Sells Over $1.3 in Domain Names in September -

Namejet.com only reported over $1.3 million in domain sales in September.

Only sales of $2,000 or some-more are enclosed in a news and over 50% of a sales were from a sale of one domain name GJ.com that sole for 694,095.00

 

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Domain Movers: RSL.com, WakeUpHappy.com, RealEstate.com & More Domains - Domain Movers is an exciting series that uses domain names as a driver to breaking and interesting news relating to some of the largest companies in the world. Welcome, enjoy and spread the word about this cool and always interesting series. 4 new domain names have been registered by the “Bic” brand? The whois details on each domain name are generic at this time but contain the Bic brand name in some of the domains, which may be who the actual owner is. The domain names are: BicTrailer.com, BillionsTrailer.com, ... read more ...
 
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PassItOn.com sells for $64,000 on Sedo - PassITon.com sold for $64,000 on Sedo,when I saw it I wondered if Mike Berkens owned it because Mike does well with popular phrases. Just yesterday Mike sold LoseYourShirt.com for $10,000 on Go Daddy. The owner was not Mike but a company called Commerce Stream. The domain has been registered since 1997 and it looks like it has had a few corporate owners over the years. In 2000 a company called SoftLock owned the domain name, then in 2003 a company called Internet Retail Billing owned it for about ... read more ...
Thu 1st October 2015
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BMW Wins The Right To The Domain B.MW in a UDRP - Bayerische Motoren Werke AG of Munich, Germany, (BMW) just won the rights to the domain hack b.mw in a UDRP decision. We wrote about the filing of the UDRP back in July 24th of this year, as .mw is a ccTLD (country code domain extension) This is another case where a panel looked at both of sides of the dot to grant trademark protection Here are the highlights: It is apparent to the Panel that the Respondent was aware of the Complainant’s distinctive and well-known BMW mark when registering the ... read more ...
 
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Readers Digest Association Rebrands To Trusted Media Brands, Inc Buys TMBI.com Domain - In a historic move, The Readers Digest Association, Inc. has changed its corporate name after 93 years, to Trusted Media Brands, Inc. Back on June 1, 2015 TheDomains discovered that The Readers Digest Association had acquired the domain name TMBI.com from Get On The Web, but we were not sure “why” at that time, but now we do know why. TMBI.com had a $16,950 asking price by Get On The Web on a landing page directly on the domain name but it is not known what the actual purchase price of the ... read more ...
Wed 30th September 2015
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ibuystores.com Loses Bid To Grab iBuy.com in UDRP - IBUY Stores, Inc. of New York, just lost its bid to grab the domain name ibuy.com in a UDRP IBuy Stores owns the domain name ibuystores.com This case really should have gotten a Reverse Domain Name Hijacking ruling. The domain holder applied for a trademark in 2008, they bought the domain name in 2007 and the Complainant first filed its trademark in 2015 however the one member panel of David H. Bernstein did not even bring up the issue. Here are the highlights: Complainant is the owner of a United ... read more ...
 
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Strangest Decision of The Year? Netflix Loses URS On The Domain Name Netflix.website - Netflix, Inc. just lost a complaint filed under the Uniform Rapid Suspension System (URS) on the domain name Netflix.website I have read through the short decision several times and still don’t understand it The domain owner said he doesn’t even own the domain. The domain which was had a website about Netflix service was found to be inactive when the Examiner David J. Steele, Esq. looked at it, yet he found in favor of the domain holder Here are the highlights: “At the outset, it is necessary ... read more ...
 
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Domain Movers: Jackrabbit.com, FreeBasics.com, JC.com & More Domains - If this is your first time seeing a Domain Movers series, I highly suggest you checkout past articles. This series is all about detecting domain names on the move for one reason or another by large corporations. These companies often purchase already owned domain names by others for new brands, products or services and for many more reasons. These are early findings and the following is often the first time publicly that the information is announced. Microsoft Corporation registered 27 domain names ... read more ...
Tue 29th September 2015
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Florida Owner of UberPromotions.com Sues Uber.com For Trademark Infringement - UBER PROMOTIONS, INC. a Florida corporation filed a federal lawsuit today against the the world famous Uber.com whose formal corporate name is UBER TECHNOLOGIES, INC for trademark infringement, unfair competition under the Trademark Act of 1946, under Florida law and under common law. The Florida corporation alleged they had a website for transportation services started in Gainesville Florida in 2006, home of the Florida Gators, several years before what we all know as Uber.com started. Here are ... read more ...
 
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Three Letter Domain Name TPP.Com Hit With UDRP - The domain name TPP.com has been hit with a UDRP The Complainant  is unknown  at the moment but the domain is owned on behalf of a client of MarkMonitor which generally means big corporate client and was owned earlier this year by Thomson Reuters Holdings Inc a client of MarkMonitor.com since at least 2005. There are at least 7 different trademarks for the world-famous term TPP in the USPTO going back to 1992. The UNITED STATES GOLF ASSOCIATION filed the 1st trademark in 1992 and then LOCKKHEED ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $1million led by Pionier.de - Over the past week, 697 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1m. 57% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.     Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: youconnect.com at 20,000 USD Top ccTLD: pionier.de at 19,500 EUR Top “other” TLD: opex.net at 4,500 USD New GTLD sales: bethel.church    999    USD   ... read more ...
 
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.Com Tops 120 Million Total Domain Names & Over 119 Million Active Domains - Verisign is reporting that the number of .Com domain names has topped 120 Million for the 1st time and likewise the number of domain names active in the .Com zone file top 119 million. The .Com domain name base which has topped 120 million domains is explained as: “”The domain name base is the active zone plus the number of domain names that are registered but not configured for use in the respective Top-Level Domain zone file plus the number of domain names that are in a client or server hold ... read more ...
 
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After Setting Records On Kickstarter, Smartwatch Company Pebble Secures Pebble.com - Smartwatch company Pebble Technology first made headlines 3 years ago when it raised $10 Million dollars for the e-paper watch on Kickstarter. In early 2015, Pebble broke Kickstarter records when it crowdfunded Pebble Time raising $1 Million in 49 minutes and then set a record for raising the most money on Kickstarter,  over $20 Million dollars for its smartwatch Pebble Time. The company has been using the domain name GetPebble.com which has been registered since May 27, 2011 but according to whois ... read more ...
 
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Sen. Cruz Asks The GAO to Determine Whether Obama Has "The Power to Give Away a Internet" - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who is also running for President, along with Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), Chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet, sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) yesterday “requesting an affirmative determination of whether the Obama Administration’s plan to transfer U.S. ... read more ...
Mon 28th September 2015
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One Direction Wins a Right to a Domain Name OneDirection.video - 1D Media Limited of London, just won control of the domain name OneDirection.video in a UDRP on behalf of one of the most famous pop bands in the world. The one member panel of Richard G. Lyon awarded the domain on a pretty easy case saying “that the term ONE DIRECTION has no sensible or reasonable meaning that does not relate to the Complainant or its activities.” The panelist found that The Complainant demonstrated bad faith in both registration and use of the disputed domain name which was ... read more ...
 
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Uniregistry Takes Over New gTLD .HIV - According to imstilljosh.com, who seems to be involved with the .HIV registry,  the new gTLD string .HIV is being transferred to Uniregistry. “”Today, Uniregistry takes over the lead in this unique journey to use a top-level domain to promote a social good. The dotHIV charity will continue its work for .hiv and focus on community support. The creative agency thjnk from Hamburg, Germany, longstanding partner of the initiative, will continue to work on behalf of the .hiv top-level domain, exploring ... read more ...