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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 4th September 2015
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Owners of emazing.nl Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking On emazing.com - Emazing B.V. of Baarn, Netherlands which owns and operate the website emazing.nl, represented by Van der Goen advocaten B.V., Netherlands has just been found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the domain name emazing.com The company that owns emazing.nl was first incorporated in 2000 the domain name emazing.com was transferred several times since its original registration in 2007 Here are the highlights of the one member panel of Matthew S. Harris: The Complainant is a company founded ... read more ...
 
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Announcing The Women’s Meet Up 2015 In Ft. Lauderdale Sept 25th & 26th - On Friday, Sept. 25 and Saturday, Sept.26, South Florida’s most influential, ambitious and passionate women will unite for 32 Event’s Women’s Meet Up 2015. The event will be hosted at the Hyatt Pier 66 in Fort Lauderdale, right before THE Domain Conference which will be held at the same venue from September 26th-29th. “The event will celebrate and highlight the successes of local cultural and financial leaders and provide inspiration and motivation for women hoping to advance personally ... read more ...
 
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Did Premium 2 Letter Domain Name TN.com Sell? - This morning, the premium 2 letter .com domain name TN.com has transferred out of domain name registrar Fabulous.com to GoDaddy.com. This movement can indicate a domain name has sold. What we know. Back in 2011, whois records showed the domain name was owned by Vertical Axis, Inc. The domain name has been under whois privacy ever since but the domain has been using Mark.com name servers recently, which is common with Vertical Axis, Inc. owned domain names. The domain name was using DomainNameSales.com ... read more ...
Thu 3rd September 2015
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Domain Movers: Worldwide.com, Shotput.com, Logs.com & More Domains - Domain Movers is unique! Domain Movers is exciting! Domain Movers is fun! Domain Movers presents to you a “behind the scenes” look at what large companies are buying, registering and simply moving domain name wise! These are often early signs of a future advertising campaigns. A new product launch. A better domain name. And so much more! Here are the latest movements we detected, focused mainly on large corporations: Carnival Corporation has purchased the domain name WLCL.com from Vertical Axis. ... read more ...
 
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Paris Hilton; Harry Potter; Playboy; AARP Among 1st To Own a .Sex Domain Name - The new gTLD .Sex went into the first day of the Sunrise on September 1st where trademark holders registered with the Trademark Clearinghouse can register .Sex domain names. Over 700 .Sex domain names have been registered. Google, Apple, Microsoft, Time Warner and Marriott seemed to register the most .Sex domains to date. With some of the trademarks there are some interesting .sex domains, including Office.sex, JustEat.Sex, Swift.sex; Priceless.Sex; Safari.sex Then there is MTV.sex, which the Network ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy Ranks No. 1 In .IN Domain Name Market Share For With 33% Of Registrar Market - http://businesswireindia.com/news/news-details/godaddy-ranks-no-1-in-domain-name-market-share/45089, Godaddy the worlds largest domain name registrar has the highest market share for selling .IN domain names, according to the National Internet Exchange of India (NiXi). .IN is India’s Country Code Top Level domain (ccTLD) on the Internet. The domain name extension .IN, “is seeing significant uptake among individuals and businesses in India and worldwide, with over 1.7 million websites around the ... read more ...
 
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Apple Inc. Registers Several New iSurvey Domain Names - Apple Inc. may have something new to announce sometime soon? Maybe on September 9, 2015 at the Apple event we may hear a new “i” term, iSurvey? Well the above is speculation but it’s backed up by some solid facts! Apple Inc. has registered the domain names: AppleiSurvey.com and AppleiSurveys.com! They continued with protection domain registrations Apple-iSurvey.com, Apple-iSurveys.com and Apple-Surveys.com. The domain names were registered at corporate brand protection domain name registrar ... read more ...
 
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UDRP Filed on Recently Sold $18,400 Three Letter Domain Name Zic.com - A UDRP (D2015-1566) has been filed to gain control of the 3 letter domain name Zic.com . The URDP was filed by the company SK Lubricants Americas, a subsidiary of SK Innovations on September 2, 2015. The domain name Zic.com was acquired during a Ha.com domain name auction in February 2015 for $18,400 USD. SK Lubricants Americas filed a trademark on December 22, 2003 for the term: Zic and the trademark has an active status for good and services: “Lubricating oil, all purpose spray type lubricants, ... read more ...
 
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Any Squatting on Paypal.me Names ? You Betcha - Mike wrote on Wednesday about Paypal rolling out Paypal.me and your chance to reserve a novelty name that will be associated with your account. It is important to note you can’t change it once you pick it. The Daily Dot covered name squatting taking place and while some celebrity names got taken others got reserved like Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift. Politicians did not get reserved status. From the article: PayPal.Me opened up with basically every possible URL available to any enterprising user. ... read more ...
Wed 2nd September 2015
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Apple Inc. Registers .org "News Publisher" Domains 87 Days AFTER Announcing Publicly - On June 8, 2015 Apple Inc. announced a new “News” app that will be included in the fall release of iOS 9, that is powered by Apple News Format™. Fast forward to today, September 2, 2015 and Apple Inc. registers the following domain names with MarkMonitor: AppleNewsFormat.org AppleNewsPublisher.org News-Publisher.org NewsPublisher.org All .org domain names. The domain name AppleNewsFormat.com was registered on the day of the announcement (June 8, 2015), but not by Apple Inc. According to whois ... read more ...
 
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Paypal Launches New Branded Site on Paypal.Me: Get Your Vanity Address Now - According to Gizmodo.co.uk, Paypal wants “Paypal.Me to Become a Catchphrase” Paypal has launched a site on Paypal.me to allows users to set up a vanity address on Paypal.me so instead of giving someone an email address to send you money you can tell them to send money to paypal.me/blogs (which is what I just set up before publishing this post). If you already have a Paypal account it’s all ready to go today. Clicking on the Paypal.me takes you to a signup page where you choose your username ... read more ...
 
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.SEX is Now Available: .XXX, .Porn & .Sex Premiums Go Tiered-Pricing on Registrars - ICM Registry, the registry operator for the .XXX, .PORN, and .ADULT domain names announced that the new gTLD .SEX opened up yesterday for Trademark holders. .SEX launched on September 1, with three distinct phases. The first phase is the TMCH Sunrise phase for trademark owners (Sept 1-Oct 1). The next is a combined Sunrise B/Domain Matching phase for existing .XXX participants (Oct 5-Oct. 30); and the final phase is general availability (Nov 4th). Names in each phase will be available on a first-come, ... read more ...
Tue 1st September 2015
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Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $1Million led by Zoff.com - There were 480 transactions on Sedo’s marketplace and SedoMLS, totaling $1m. 55% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: zoff.com at 25,000 USD Top ccTLD:  easy.eu at 6,500 EUR Top “other” TLD: anzeigen.info at 6,000 EUR It was a slow week for other gtlds, no new gtld sales this week. Mike’s Bargain of the week is MedicalOffice.com which someone picked up for a whopping $700. ... read more ...
 
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FireHost Rebrands As Armor.com After Purchasing The Domain Name - On August 23, 2015 I had detected that the domain names Armor.com and Armour.com had likely sold and questioned if Under Armour may have purchased the domains from the past owner, Chris Poor who had owned them since they were created back in 1995. Well, a company by the brand name of FireHost sent out a  press release yesterday, August 31, 2015 announcing a rebrand to Armor and revealed they were the buyers of Armor.com. I spoke to Chris Poor today on the phone and he was unable to provide comment ... read more ...
 
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Kylie Jenner & Kendall Jenner Both Get Their Matching .Com Domains - Kylie Jenner, and Kendall Jenner just got control of their matching .Com domain names from a UDRP panel, kyliejenner.com and kendalljenner.com respectively Although the UDRP’s were filed separately for each domain and the owner of both domain names are different the UDRP panel of Tony Willoughby consolidated the cases at the Complainants request which is pretty unusual and there is a good discussion about the requirements for consolidating two separately filed UDRP’s The domain owners are both ... read more ...
 
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4.CN/RightoftheDot Auction Gets A 7 Figure Bid & 7 More Domains Have Bids Over $100K - The RightoftheDot.com domain name auction that is running on 4.CN that is part of the DOMAINfest.asia conference has gotten a seven figure bid and seven more domain names have bids in the 6 figures. You can see all the domain names in the auction here The domain name 73.com has a currently high bid of $1,260,315 with 11 bidders. The domain names with 6 figure bids are: YJ.com    $629,922 with 12 bidders 922.com  $362,363 with 8 bidders 735.com  $260,158 with 7 bidders 639.com  $220,630 with ... read more ...
 
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BlueCoat Study: Top 10 Shady Sites in New gTLD's Is Flawed as Unlaunched .Zip is #1 - Blue Coat Systems, Inc, an enterprise security company, issued a report today of the 10 new gTLD’s that have the most “Shady Sites” (pdf) concluding that “more than 95% of websites in 10 new Top Level Domains (TLDs) are suspicious” The report is already getting a lot of coverage in the mainstream media but there is a huge issue with the report that hasn’t been covered. The new gTLD topping the list is .Zip which hasn’t even launched yet. .Zip which is delegated to the root is owned ... read more ...
Mon 31st August 2015
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Over 100 Kanye West President Domains Registered Today In Many Extensions Even .XYZ - Since announcing he is running for President of the United States in 2020 at the MTV Music Video Awards last night,  people have been registering domain names related to the hip-hop artist promised presidential run. From PresidentKanyeWest.com to Kanye2020.com to people who are really looking down the road registering kanyewestforpresident2024.com and Kanye2028.com there are a lot of domain names registered in various extensions today. I even found some new gTLD domain names registered including ... read more ...
 
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What Do Big Brands Pay To Protect & Buy Domains? Wikileaks Give Some Clues: Hint "A Lot" - What do big companies that use brand protection company’s to register and buy domain names spend to protect, acquire, register and renew domain names? WikiLeaks.org published invoices from MarkMonitor to Sony, documents (PDF) In those invoices published by WikiLeaks , MarkMonitor.com billed Sony $1,000 several times for a “Domain Acquisition Fee” for domain names that are not owned by Sony. WOF.com, is for an example (page 60 in the pdf) a domain Sony does not own, nor has ever owned, according ... read more ...
 
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20 Yr Old, 160 Person Agency Rebrands From UpShot.net to Upshot.Agency: "Everyone Will Be Using Them" - Inc.com just published a post on a Chicago based marketing firm that just re-branded itself from upshot.net to the new gTLD Upshot.Agency saying that once the new gTLD’s catch on everyone will be using them. Upshot is a 160-employee agency which is celebrating its 20th birthday conducted what it describes as a “self-evaluation” and as a result, “it decided to re-position itself in a way that emphasizes its belief in, and expertise in providing, “seamless marketing,” which it defines as ... read more ...
 
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After The Run Off: Here Is THE Domain Conference Official Domain Industry Award Ballot - The organizers of THE Domain Conference just published the final Ballot for the Domain Industry Awards for 2015. Last week a ballot with over 100 nominees went live for voting and although a record number of votes were cast, no one candidate in any category received more than 50% of the votes, so there is a runoff for each Award. Every person or company that received 10% of the votes cast in that category qualified for the run-off. THE Domain Conference wants to thank ESCROW.COM for once again ... read more ...
Sun 30th August 2015
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Amazon Getting In 3D Printing Biz? Registers Amazon3DPrinting.com: Filed a Patent in February - Is Amazon.com (AMZN) about to get into the 3D Printing business? Amazon just registered the domain name Amazon3Dprinting.com, after filing a Patent back in February 2015. The domain Amazon3Dprinting.com was just registered by Amazon through brand protection company MarkMonitor.com  on August 27th. 3D printing has certainly been one of the hotter trends to take off over the years. Back in 2010 is when domainers really started talking about all things 3D with 3D printing being at the top of the list. Back ... read more ...
Sat 29th August 2015
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Google Buys ABCAlphabet.com, Alphabet.kr: Domain Costs Are Mounting - Google Inc. continues it’s onslaught of buying and registering domain names relating to its announcement on August 10, 2015 of it’s  new holding company, Alphabet Inc. So much talk has been behind the ABC.xyz domain acquisition, yet Alphabet Inc. has been on a domain buying spree every since buying many other domain names related to “ABC” and “Alphabet”. I’m not sure how much Google has spent on acquiring all the versions of “ABC” or Alphabet” domains it has but it has to be ... read more ...
Fri 28th August 2015
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After 24 Hours of GA .Online did 37,544 Regs - Radix reported to us that number of registrations after 24 hours of General Availability was 37,544. The winner who guessed closest to the actual number was: John Aitken says AUGUST 20, 2015 AT 11:59 AM 32,670 registrations in first 24 hours. Congrats John, we will get Radix in touch with you for your free domain name. ... read more ...
 
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Apple Is Going Head to Head with iHeart Music Festival With Apple Music Fest: Domain Regs Say So - Is Apple planning on going head to head with Clear Channel’s iHeartRadio.com which has its music festival called iHeart Radio Music Festival? Well, Apple Inc. registered 11 new domain names relating to a Music Festival on August 4, 2015. Those new domain names are: AppleiTunesMusicFestival.com, AppleMusicConcert.com, AppleMusicConcerts.com, AppleMusicEvents.com, AppleMusicFest.com, AppleMusicFestival.com, AppleMusicFestivals.com, AppleMusicReviews.com, AppleMusicShow.com, AppleMusicTicket.com and ... read more ...