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 10th August 2015
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.Law Expects 100K Domain Registration In 12-24 Months during $200 Per - According to a story in the abajournal.com, the .Law registry which is owned by Minds + Machines expects to sell 100,000 domain names in 12-24 months after launching . .Law will only be opened to licensed lawyers. The CEO of .Law Lou Andreozzi, of LexisNexis North American Legal Markets and the former chairman of Bloomberg Law is quoted as saying he “estimates the U.S. market is about 1.2 million attorneys, while the worldwide market approaches 2 million lawyers. Andreozzi said his goal in the ... read more ...
 
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Domain Movers: Float.com, RO.com, TractorSales.com & More Domains - Welcome to the latest installment of Domain Movers where we detect domain names on the move due to recently being purchased, registered and more. The vast majority of the domain names in our reports are corporate related or high value domain names. Here we go with the latest: Target Brands, Inc. registered the domain name CollegeStyler.com adding to it domain name portfolio of over 3,700 domain names. Twitter, Inc. registered the domain name TweetStories.com adding to its domain name portfolio of ... read more ...
Sun 9th August 2015
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The Mount Rushmore of Domaining - Tony from Musics.com left a good comment yesterday in the greatest domain investor of all time post. He mentioned creating a Mount Rushmore. Mount Rushmore is located in South Dakota and was opened to the public 74 years ago. The faces on Mount Rushmore consist of: Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln. So list your four members of the Mount Rushmore of Domaining. ... read more ...
 
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Australia Says Bitcoin is Money - A couple different views on Bitcoin have come out this week, Australia and Japan both made statements regarding the digital or cryptocurrency. Bryon Kaye of Reuters reported earlier in the week that Australia will look to treat digital currencies as money, making things straightforward for their citizens. From the article: SYDNEY An Australian government inquiry will recommend treating digital currencies as money, simplifying tax for people who trade with them while forcing bitcoin exchanges to monitor ... read more ...
Sat 8th August 2015
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ICANN Gives You The Chance To Review Trademark Clearinghouse's Performance & Get Paid - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) announced today that it’s “seeking one or more provider(s) to conduct an independent review of the Trademark Clearinghouse to assess the effectiveness of three key areas related to the Clearinghouse in meeting its intended objectives and to identify considerations for future application rounds of the New gTLD Program. The three key areas for examination in this review include: (a) Trademark Clearinghouse Guidelines and Verification ... read more ...
 
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Flashback - So 13 months ago we asked the question, “Who is the greatest domain investor of all time ?” There were 41 comments but not 41 votes, some were just discussion back and forth. The results were: (Number = Votes) Yun Ye 2 Frank 13 Mike Mann 5 Jose voted for himself 1 Mike Berkens 1 Rick Schwartz 1 Andrew Reberry 1 Castello Brothers 1 Surprisingly Rick only received one vote, same for the Castello Brothers, no mention of people like Garry Chernoff, Scott Day, Chris Chena and a host of others. So ... read more ...
Fri 7th August 2015
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We Dug adult a Emails on Tom Brady and TB12.com domain name - On Wednesday Deadspin.com posted an article about Tom Brady the quarterback of the New England Patriots and his legal battle with the National Football League. The subject of the story was an email leak that the NFLPA (Players Union) released in response in their lawsuit with the NFL. Deadspin which focuses on sports, touched upon one nugget of interest to domain owners,  a potential domain purchase of the domain Name TB12.com Deadspin however only published one email related to the domain name ... read more ...
 
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1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Tech 4,715; .Win 401; .Download 397; .Accountant 316; .Racing 263; .Loan 242 - 6 New gTLD’s went into General Availability where they could be registered on a first come, first served basis. 5 of the new extension are owned and operated by Famous Four Media wile the 6th .Tech is owned and operated by Radix. Here are the number of domain name registrations including those registered in Sunrise by trademark holders: .Tech 4,715 .Win 401 .Download 397 .Accountant 316 .Racing 263 .Loan 242 After the 2nd day of GA here are the totals: .Tech 5,267 .Win 430 .Download 429 .Accountant ... read more ...
 
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Verizon Files 1st UDRP For a .Porn Domain Name: Verizon.Porn - Verizon has  Filed the 1st UDRP For a .Porn Domain Name: Verizon.Porn The domain name was registered on June 4, 2015 and is owned by an Adam Rothman of Roslyn New York. Despite paying $1,500 in filing fees to gain control of Verizon.Porn, Verizon hasn’t bothered to  register the new gTLD .adult which was released at the same time.  Verizon.adult remains unregistered as of publication. Verizon did gain control of the domain name VerizonWireless.porn on June 29th after it was registered by a third ... read more ...
Thu 6th August 2015
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Domain Movers: Orb.com, OpenWheel.com, MPCG.com & More Domains - Welcome to the latest Domain Movers where we detect domain names on the move and the majority all relate to large corporations. Some of the following domain names have been purchased from a previous owner, some registered and some are simply moving for one reason or another. Here we go with the latest domain mover series: Time Inc. has secured the domain name PeopleStyle.com from a Joseph Saviano of Localposts LLC of New York. The domain name had a $7,500 listing at Sedo, but that listing remains. ... read more ...
Wed 5th August 2015
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Strickling: "Let Your Voice Be Heard": ICANN Opens Up Comment Period For Transition From US Control - Lawrence Strickling the Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information and NTIA Administrator in a blog post yesterday asked everyone to weight in on the ICANN transition away from the United States  Supervisory Roll. “I urge all parties with an interest in the IANA transition to review these proposals and provide feedback to the working groups. This is the best way to make your voice heard and make a difference.  It is particularly important that stakeholders everywhere evaluate whether ... read more ...
 
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Virtual Network SA Adds To $10 Million Domain Investments W/ Brain.com - Brain.com has been purchased by Virtual Network SA of Switzerland. Virtual Networks CEO Stéphane Pictet confirmed the purchase to TheDomains by stating “Virtual Network has bought Brain.com in Dec 2014 for an undisclosed amount. This highly brandable domain name is now part of our pipeline of premium brands for future internal or external projects.” Brain.com is currently redirecting to Virtual-Network.com’s main website which states that “Brain.com Coming soon. Virtual Network has currently ... read more ...
 
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XR.com sits during $552,000 with 13 hours left -

With 13 hours left XR.com sits with a high bid of $552,000, this leaves a name only $3,050 bashful of where SX.com sole on Jul 9. The names has not reached haven yet. There have been 259 bidders who have done 704 bids. There have been 9 critical bidders who have bid over 6 figures.

Do we consider a name reaches haven ? Leave your best theory on a shutting price.

Via: thedomains.com

Tue 4th August 2015
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Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $1.6million led by Give.com during $500,000 - Over the past week, 550 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.6m. 56% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Top sales: Top .com: give.com at 500,000 USD Top ccTLD: automile.de at 4,500 EUR Top “other” TLD: 47.org 7,999 USD Only one new gtld sale rwe.international    1,000    EUR VRO.com for $6,500 one of the lower sales prices we have seen recently for a 3L.com. ... read more ...
 
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How Did a UDRP Panel In Chooser.com Not Find Reverse Domain Name Hijacking? - Chooser S.A. of Jodoigne, Belgium just lost its attempt to grab the domain name Chooser.com in a UDRP. The Belgium company didn’t have any registered trademark but attempted to grab the domain name based on a “common law mark” they alleged but could not prove, that they owned the domain back in “2010 when due to an error by someone in the IT department they let the domain drop.” The UDRP panel found the Complainant did not prove they owned the domain and even went as far to call the Complaint ... read more ...
 
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Johnson & Johnson Working On An HIV Vaccine Buys HIVAidsVaccine.com Domain - It was reported earlier this month that Johnson Johnson has been showing success with a preclinical trial for an HIV-1 vaccine: The article quotes lead author Dan H. Barouch, MD, PhD, Director of the Center for Virology and Vaccine Research at BIDMC and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School chatting about Johnson Johnson vaccine: “We are very encouraged by the results of this preclinical HIV vaccine study, and the findings lead to a clear path forward for evaluating this HIV vaccine ... read more ...
Mon 3rd August 2015
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.Online Tops 550 Sunrise Registrations With 15 Days To Go - Radix the owner of the new gTLD .Online told TheDomains.com today that the number of Sunrise domain name registrations for .Online by trademark holders have exceeded 550 with over 15 days to go. The .Online Sunrise period for trademark holders ends on 17th August, and will be followed by an Early Access Phase from 19th to 26th Aug. General Availability starts on August 26th, 2015. The wholesale price for a Sunrise .Online domain registration is $150. Each registrar sets the retail price to their ... read more ...
 
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Maker of Grand Theft Auto Buys MafiaGame.com For Mafia III Game Launch This Week - Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (2K Games) TTWO (NASDAQ)  has purchased the domain name MafiaGame.com which was owned by Frank Schilling’s Name Administration Inc. and has put up a website to launch its new Mafia III game, which is set for “worldwide reveal” on August 5, 2015 according to the new site. I had reported several Mafia 3 domain registrations by Take-Two in early July 2015, which included: Mafia3TheGame.com, MafiaiiiTheGame.com, MafiaThree.com and MafiaThreeTheGame.com. MafiaGame.com ... read more ...
 
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Namejet.com Reports Over $1 Million In Domain Sales In July -

Namejet.com usually reported over $1 Million in domain name sales in Jul led by SX.com that sole for $555,050

As usual, usually sales of $2,000 or some-more are enclosed in a news and usually those domain names that were paid for by a finish of July.

 

Via: thedomains.com

Sun 2nd August 2015
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Trump Trademarked "Make America Great Again" in 2012 though Missed The .Com When Dropped in 2014 - Its pretty hard to find a picture of Donald Trump in the last few weeks not wearing a baseball cap with his now famous tag line of the his 2016 Presidential run of “Make America Great Again’ You might be surprised to find out that The Donald filed a trademark on the term back in November 2012. However the trademark was filed for opposition in 2013 and not finally granted until July, 14th 2015. The domain name MakeAmericaGreatAgain.com was first registered in 2009 under the domain name registrar ... read more ...
Sat 1st August 2015
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Mobile Now Accounts for Close to Half of China's Retail eCommerce Sales -

A new news from eMarketer.com shows that China is distant some-more mobile than a U.S. when it comes to ecommerce. Over 87% of all users in China frequently entrance a Internet with a mobile phone vs 74.6% in a U.S.

From a report:

Retail Mcommerce Sales in China, 2014-2019

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Tokyo Police Arrest Mark Karpeles of Bitcoin Exchange Mt.Gox - Mark Karpeles the former CEO of Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox has been arrested in Tokyo. In a statement, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police said that they believed 30-year-old French national Karpeles had “unjustly inflated the balance” of an account in his name by manipulating Mt. Gox transaction records. “He created false information that $1 million had been transferred into the account, when in fact it had not been.” The New York Times reports: On Saturday, the Japanese police arrested Mark Karpeles, ... read more ...
 
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Fed Court of Appeals Affirms Dismal Of Name.Space's Claim Against ICANN's New gTlD Program - The United States’ Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed the dismissal of antitrust and other claims against ICANN made by a company called name.space, related to ICANN’s new generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) Program, in an opinion published today In 2013, a federal district court dismissed all of name.space’s claims, and today the Ninth Circuit affirmed that dismissal in all respects. name.space alleged that ICANN violated the Sherman Act, and various trademark and other laws, in establishing ... read more ...
 
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Go Daddy Founder Bob Parson's Son Arrested on Domestic Violence - In what is a very disturbing story the son of Go Daddy founder Bob Parsons was arrested on domestic violence charges. Fox10Phoenix reported: The son of GoDaddy founder Bob Parsons is being accused of strangling and hitting his girlfriend in his Scottsdale home. Robert Sean Parsons turned himself into police and has been charged with felony assault charges. Robert lives on the same property as his father, it’s where the alleged domestic violence incident took place. Police say Robert surrendered ... read more ...
Fri 31st July 2015
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A Look during China's Internet - CFR.org published an article on the size and characteristics of the Internet in China. Citing data from CNNIC, the article gives some great insight into the Chinese Internet. From the article: The number of Internet users in China has grown to 668 million, according to a report released last week by the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), a state agency that administers China’s domain name registry and conducts research on the Chinese Internet. Below are the main points from the ... read more ...