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.

Mon 28th September 2015
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Study on Facebook Users: 14% Check It During A Funeral; 15% in The Shower - Stop Procrastinating published the results of a survey of 2,000 people that use Facebook Regularly and it contains some pretty interesting results: 56% described their Facebook use as compulsive and of these, 68% were worried by their inability to control their use of Facebook. Examples include: Leaving a restaurant meal with friends or their partner to visit the bathroom or toilet to check Facebook. Checking Facebook at the cinema during a film. Commenting on a post at their own wedding or a friend’s ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
TripAdvisor.com Loses UDRP On a Domain Tripadvosor.com - TripAdvisor, brought a UDRP on two domain names, tripadvosor.com and trpadvisor.com and walked away winning one and losing the other David A. Einhorn as Panelist awarded the domain name Trpadvisor.com to TripAdvisor but refused to hand the domain name tripadvosor.com over to the company. The same person owned both domain name and didn’t bother filing an answer. CitzenHawk represented TripAdvisor. Tripadvosor.com was created on June 11, 2004 and tripadvisor.com was created on April 14, 2004. Here ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
DNpric.es Compares Aftermarket For .Guru, .Expert & .Ninja -

Having pronounced that here are a reported sales of $150 or some-more for any of these 3 new gTLD’s according to DNPric.es.

Also to be transparent these are Aftermarket sales and does simulate what people spent in Early Access Periods to acquire domains in these extensions

Here are a reported sales for .Expert:

Here are a reported sales for .Guru:

Here a reported aftermarket sales for .Ninja of $150 or more:

Via: thedomains.com

 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
ICANN Releases Results of Its 1st Global Registrant Survey - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) published the findings of its first Global Registrant Survey, which was conducted on its behalf by Nielsen. Here are the key findings: Awareness of new gTLDs is higher among registrants of domain names than among general Internet users; 65% of domain registrants reported awareness of at least one new gTLD versus 46% of general Internet users. While 65% of general Internet users said they had visited a domain in a new gTLD, 64% of registrants ... read more ...
Sun 27th September 2015
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Amazon Turns On AmazonRegistry.com To Sell New gTLD Domain Names - Amazon applied for 76 new generic top-level domain names (gTLD’s). When Amazon applied for their new gTLD’s they applied to operate them on a closed basis meaning the public would not be able to register any domain names without Amazon allocating them, but the Governmental Advisory Council (GAC) to ICANN nixed the plan for the most part, while still allowing .Brand Applications. Amazon won the rights to some of new gTLD’s it applied for; In an ICANN Auction of Last Resort, which results are ... read more ...
Sat 26th September 2015
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Domain Holding Brokers The Sale Of Bluestar.com for $90K: A Very Interesting Story - DomainHoldings.com has brokered the sale of the domain name Bluestar.com Hobi Michalec wrote a post giving a lot of details about the sale, how it was negotiated and the different price points that were offered by two different companies along the way. What makes the story particularly interesting is that the Seller wound up selling the domain for $10,000 less, to the 2nd highest bidder, as they were unhappy about the way the highest bidder conducted himself, who at the end offered the asking price ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
20 year Old Bart.net Lost in UDRP to Owner of Bart.org & Bart.Gov - The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (“Complainant”), which is known As BART and owns the domain Bart.org and Bart.gov, just won the rights to the domain name Bart.net The sole panelist Dennis A. Foster awarded that the domain name which was registered initially in 1995 and has been sold and resold by a number of entities until Respondent acquired the name in June 2015 where is now going to a non-resolving page. The panelist also took note that within days of acquiring the domain ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Blackjack.com UDRP Thrown Out With Reverse Domain Name Hijacking Ruling - Complainant Cary Pinkowski, Darren Little, and Joe Whitney (together the “Complainant”), which were represented by Eric Misterovich of Revision Legal, Michigan, USA, was just found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on the domain name Blackjack.com The three member UDRP panel of Sandra J. Franklin, Dawn Osborne and The Honourable Neil Anthony Brown QC  quickly dismissed the complaint finding that the Complainants which previously owed a company, Hanger Holdings Limited, which previously ... read more ...
Fri 25th September 2015
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
New gTLD Totals This Week .Rent 540; .Tickets 523; .Courses 447 - Three new TLD extensions went live this week and here are the numbers .Rent which was bought to you by the .XYZ guys has around 540 registrations. .Tickets which is a one off registry, has a retail cost of around $500 per domain and has 523 registrations. .Courses  which was sponsored by OPEN UNIVERSITIES AUSTRALIA PTY LTD which honestly I don’t know much about has 447 registrations All of these numbers include Sunrise registrations by trademark holders and any landrush or any Early Access periods ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
.Top Adds Over 75k Domains In 2 Days Moving Into 2nd Place For All New gTLD's -   The .TOP registry has been on fire adding over 75,000 domain name registration in the past two days According to RegistrarStats.com .Top now has over 362,000 domains registered moving past .Science and is now only 2nd to .XYZ as the top registered new gTLD domain name extensions. Yesterday according to RegistrarStats.com .Top picked up over 42,000 registrations and as you can see from the chart (also courtesy of RegistrarStats.com) had just around 220,000 registrations at the end of August. I ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
In a Rare Loss; Philip Morris Loses UDRP On New gTLD Domain Marlboro.Party - Philip Morris just lost a UDRP on the new gTLD domain name marlboro.party The disputed domain name was registered on February 18, 2015 and the domain owner represented himself in the suit and claimed he registered this domain and hundreds of other as a Geographic domain such as Marlboro, New jersey rather than anything to do with the cigarette brand. Here are the highlights: The Complainant contends that the Respondent has registered and used the disputed domain name in bad faith with full knowledge ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Adidas Announces "Sport Infinity" Zero Waste, Didn't Secure Domain & It's Cheap - Adidas announced a new zero-waste sporting project, made of a “inexhaustible 3-D super-material” that would prevent the products from ever being thrown away. The name of it is Sport Infinity. Interestingly, Adidas has yet to secure the matching domain name: SportInfinity.com,  is listed for sale on a buy now basis for just $1,999 on GoDaddy.com According to the article: “Sport Infinity, its plan for a new breed of sporting goods that will never be thrown away. Instead, soccer players will ... read more ...
Thu 24th September 2015
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Publicly Traded Co. Registers 44 Domains Calling Donald Trump a Bully Among Other Things - Symform, Inc. which was acquired by Quantum Corporation for $500,000 in 2014, registered 44 domain names at corporate domain name registrar MarkMonitor according to whois records yesterday, all relating to US presidential candidate Donald Trump in less than a flattering fashion. Quantum Corporation is a publicly traded company on NYSE: QTM Qauntum has a market cap of $207 Million. Both Symform and Quantum seem to be in the cloud storage business. Donald Trump is a registered trademark Trump is also ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Google Threatens To Block Repeat Offenders of the Webmaster Guidelines - In a blog post yesterday Google warned sites that volatile Google’s Webmaster Guidelines repeatedly can be barred from the search engine results pages (SERPs) permanently. “In order to protect the quality of our search results, we take automated and manual actions against sites that violate our Webmaster Guidelines. When your site has a manual action taken, you can confirm in the [Manual Actions] page in Search Console which part of your site the action was taken and why. After fixing the site, ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
The Brooklyn Brewery Corporation Files 7 Separate UDRP - The Brooklyn Brewery Corporation has filed 7 separate UDRP’s this year the most recent one was filed yesterday. The company owns and operate its website under the domain name BrooklynBrewery.com The company has a Federally Registered Trademark for the term “Brooklyn Brewery”     I searched the USPTO and did not find any trademark for the term Brooklyn Beer: Here are 5 pending domain names on which The Brooklyn Brewery Corporation has filed UDRP on: BrooklynBeer.com BrooklynBeers.com BrooklynAle.com BrooklynBrew.com BrooklynBrews.com The ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
The DNA Launches Its Own YouTube Channel With Interviews With "Industry Leaders" - The DNA trade association launched a YouTube channel with video’s from “DNA “Industry Leaders” including; Becky Burr of Neustar; Roland LaPlante of Afilias; Roelof Meijer CEO of the company that runs the .nl ccTLD; Jodee Rich of .CEO, .Best  and .Kred and Jeff Sass of .Club The video are also streaming from DNA’s website here The DNA YouTube Channel is here. Here are direct links for each interview: Becky BurrRoland LaPlanteRoelof MeijerJodee RichJeff Sass     ... read more ...
Wed 23rd September 2015
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Domain Movers: Doers.com, Store.com, ColorSnap.com & More Domains - This is Domain Movers! This exclusive series focuses on domain names that are on the move for one reason or another and most of the time this is because of a domain name sale. Domain Movers focuses on corporate transactions, startups and simply valuable domain names. These are often early detection’s and can lead to new advertising campaigns, new brands, products, services and much more. Here we go with the latest. PLR IP Holdings, LLC has registered the domain name PolaroidSnapCamera.com . New ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
My Most Ridiculous Domain Pricing Award In The New gTLD Space Goes To Mind & Machines - I just got a renewal  bill from my registrar, Hexonet on some Minds + Machines domain names I registered last year at normal registration prices. I have spent well into the six figures on new gTLD’s, so I put my money at risk all the time in the very speculative new gTLD space. In this case there was an issue with the pricing sent over by the registry Minds + Machines to  my registrar, Hexonet. Along the way in the registration process the retail price got screwed. Unlike mostly every domain ... read more ...
Tue 22nd September 2015
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $1.3million led by v68.com during $44,000 - Sedo had 615 transactions take place on their marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1,3m. 59% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.  Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: v68.com at 44,000 USD Top ccTLD:  tutu.de at 6,800 EUR Top “other” TLD: tgl.net at 10,000 EUR New Gtld sales: sportsbetting.tips    4,700    EUR com.ink                       1,250    USD sun.energy                     999    USD abnehmen.club             ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Did You Know That New gTLD's .Men: & .Lotto Launched & .Game Got Delayed? - I read Andrew’s post yesterday on DomainNameWire.com, about new gTLD extensions launching this week;  Tickets, .Rent and .Courses. I realized  that a couple of  other strings launched in the last couple of weeks that basically went unnoticed by the domain blogger community. .Lotto was launched by Afilias, at 101domain.com a .Lotto registration, not a premium but any .Lotto registration will set you back $1,899 a year per domain. The .Lotto domain extension was offered, not over a 5 day Early ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
JC.com, KC.com and MW.com 2 Letter Domain Names All Sell - It seems I have been reporting A LOT lately on 2 letter .com domain name sales and today is no different with 3 more changing ownership. A couple of things to keep in mind: There are only 676, 2 letter .com domain names Minimum wholesale IMO is riding about $600,000 USD based on a couple recent sales around that price point BrokerageFirm.com who I personally do not know much about prior to recently, had its hand in two of the recent purchases. According to its website: “We’re a confidential digital ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Minds + Machines Finds Operating New gTLD Much Less Profitable Than Selling Apps: Swing To a Loss - Minds + Machines Group Ltd  (LON:MMX) reported today the company’s financial results for the 1st half of 2015. Minds + Machines swung to a pretax loss for the first half of 2015 “due to it seeing a lower gain from participating in generic top-level domain auctions” Minds + Machines reported a  pretax loss of $3.7 million for the half year to ending June 30th, from a pretax profit of $4.9 million, “mostly as a result of lower profit from participating in generic top-level domain auctions”. In ... read more ...
Mon 21st September 2015
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Domain Movers: Bows.com, Guest.com, PetBasics.com & More Domains - Welcome to Domain Movers! This exclusive, exciting series highlights domain names recently acquired, registered and simply moving by large corporations. These are often early finds and often lead to new advertising campaigns, new brands, products services and more. Here we go with the latest Domain Movers: A currently unknown MarkMonitor client using generic whois data registered several domain names relating to “video” and aerial, with domain names like VideoAero.com, VideoAircraft.com, VideoAviation.com, ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
The Domain Name 588.com Sells For $1 Million Dollars - The domain name 588.com has sold for $1 Million dollars. The domain sale comes on the heals of Rick Schwartz announced sale of 899.com last week for $801,000 and the sale earlier this year of 345.com at $800,000 by our company MostWantedDomains.com The sale of 588.com was brokered by Goldenname.com (4.CN) The domain was in pending transfer status on August 19th and transferred to the Chinese domain name registrar ename.com around August 25th. The Chinese domain market remains on fire despite problems ... read more ...
Sun 20th September 2015
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Here Comes .Bloomberg: Say Hello To Mike.Bloomberg and Michael.Bloomberg - .Bloomberg is .Brand new gTLD which is looking like its getting to launch as they have created over 50 domain names ending in .Bloomberg Bloomberg covered some of the products and topics its known for and of course it’s CEO with the domain names Michael.Bloomberg and Mike.Bloomberg (which both seem to be forwarding to mikebloomberg.com. Most noticeably missing from the list is stocks.Bloomberg and Commodities.Bloomberg but I’m sure they are coming. Here are the first .Bloomberg domain names: about.bloomberg admin.bloomberg affiliate.bloomberg anywhere.bloomberg asia.bloomberg bba.bloomberg bcause.bloomberg benefits.bloomberg beta.bloomberg bgov.bloomberg blaw.bloomberg blpprofessional.bloomberg bmia.bloomberg bna.bloomberg bnef.bloomberg bpipe.bloomberg briefs.bloomberg bunit.bloomberg business.bloomberg businessweek.bloomberg careers.bloomberg charityday.bloomberg contentservice.bloomberg current.bloomberg email-settings.bloomberg emea.bloomberg foundation.bloomberg indexes.bloomberg institute.bloomberg intelligence.bloomberg invite.bloomberg jobs.bloomberg labs.bloomberg latam.bloomberg law.bloomberg link.bloomberg manhattanwest.bloomberg markets.bloomberg michael.bloomberg mike.bloomberg mobile.bloomberg nep.bloomberg news.bloomberg philanthropy.bloomberg polarlake.bloomberg politics.bloomberg procurement.bloomberg professional.bloomberg pursuits.bloomberg radio.bloomberg sef.bloomberg service.bloomberg software.bloomberg space.bloomberg startup.bloomberg stayconnected.bloomberg surveillance.bloomberg sustainability.bloomberg tech.bloomberg terminal.bloomberg tradebook.bloomberg tradingsolutions.bloomberg vault.bloomberg ventures.bloomberg view.bloomberg wbbr.bloomberg willettadvisors.bloomberg ... read more ...