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.

Sun 21st June 2015
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.Sucks Gets Almost 3,400 Domain Registrations At Prices Up To $2,499 in Sunrise - The .Sunrise period for the new gTLD .Sucks generated over 3,400 domain name registrations at pricing ranging  up to $2,500 per domain name. Premium .Sucks Sunrise registrations were sold for up to $2,499,  with at a wholesale cost of $2,000 as set by the .sucks registry, Vox Populi Registry Ltd. If all 3,400 registrations in Sunrise were sold at the $2K premium wholesale price,  then Vox Populi just pulled in $6.8 Million Mark Zuckerberg registered no less than 10 .sucks domain names: markzuckerberg.sucks markzuckerbergreally.sucks mzuckerberg.sucks mzuckerbergtotally.sucks zuck.sucks zuckerberg.sucks zuckerbergreally.sucks zuckerbergtotally.sucks zuckreally.sucks zucks.sucks Guess ... read more ...
Sat 20th June 2015
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Google To Start Removing Links Related To Revenge Porn - Google is finally going to start removing content associating with revenge porn, back in March Twitter updated its TOS banning such content from their service. There have been a few high profile cases with Hunter Moore and his website IsAnyoneUp.com being the most famous. Moore was eventually arrested. From Ars Technica: On Wednesday, Hunter Moore, 28, the notorious founder and operator of revenge porn site IsAnyoneUp.com, pleaded guilty [PDF] to unauthorized access to a computer, aiding and abetting ... read more ...
Fri 19th June 2015
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Stages.com Sold In Jan for $14k+ Hit With UDRP By Co. That Filed a Trademark Last Week - Well now this UDRP/trademark thing is officially just getting silly. The domain name Stages.com, a generic domain name by any measure, has been hit with a UDRP after the domain was purchased in January for Over $14k, by a company that just filed for a trademark last week. The UDRP was filed by Foundation Fitness LLC which filed a trademark on the term “Stages” way back on June 12, 2015. Oh by the way that was just 7 days ago. Today is June 19th. The domain name was sold on Sedo in January for ... read more ...
 
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Architelos Releases the NameSentry Abuse Report on Phishing For May 2015: Worst Offender .Br - Architelos released its NameSentry Abuse Report with a “Focus on Phishing” for all domain name extensions ccTLD, new gTLD’s and Legacy TLD’s like .com, .net and .org for the month of May 2015. .Com had the most reports of abuse but still only 11K reports out of 118 Million or so domain names. There were only 143 Phishing reports for May for all new gTLD’s out of over 6 million registrations The ccTLD .Br had 1,026 reports all by itself which is around 7X more reports than all new gTLD’s ... read more ...
 
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.Bank Gets Over 700 Domain Registration @ $750+ Per In Sunrise: Goes Live Into GA on Jun 24th - fTLD Registry Services the registry behind the new gTLD .Bank announced today that it received over 700 domain name registrations during Sunrise period by trademark holders at a cost of $750+ per registration. General Availability (GA) for the gTLD .BANK will open on June 24, 2015 for all eligible members of the banking industry. fTLD was created to manage the .BANK domain with the support of a coalition of banks, insurance companies and financial services trade associations from around the world. ... read more ...
 
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After spending $30MM for Sometrics, Amex allows the many renouned site Gamecoins.com Drop - I noticed the domain name GameCoins.com was in an expired domain name auction over at GoDaddy Auctions after it expired on May 5, 2015. The domain name has a very interesting history. For starters, GameCoins.com sold at Sedo.com for $10,500 on September 3, 2009 and the buyer was Ian Swanson of the company Sometrics. According to an article on AdWeek.com published October 12, 2010: Sometrics launched a site called GameCoins.com in March that allows users to earn virtual currencies in their favorite ... read more ...
 
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Breaking: We.com Domain Name Sells during Sedo - Two letter .com domain names are pretty rare with only 676 of them, but two letter words are even more rare when it comes to domain names and We.com is one of them! It has just been SOLD according to whois records. The domain has went into transfer service at Sedo, so it either sold at Sedo or is using Sedo escrow. The domain name was owed by Alf Temme of North Hollywood, CA and has been owned since October 3, 2006. The domain We.com has just went into transfer service at Sedo.com so the buyers are ... read more ...
Thu 18th June 2015
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Henderson Global Investors Acquires Over 20% Of Minds + Machines: Has £89.4bn resources underneath management - Henderson Global Investors has acquires over 20% Of the voting shares of Minds + Machines. Since Fred Krueger announced he was leaving the company around 3 weeks ago, his ownership of Minds + Machines has now fallen to under 9%, sitting as of the last announcement at 8.7%. Mr. Krueger owned some 15.9% of the shares of the company before his announcement and so he has sold, a little less than 50% of his shares. According to its website: “Established in 1934 to administer the estates of Alexander ... read more ...
 
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Rightside Spent $54M On New gTLD's Got Back $29M By Withdrawing Apps - Bizjournals.com, just covered Rightside (Nasdaq: NAME) and there is some good information in the article some of which I had not read before “Rightside spent $54.18 million on gTLDs over the past three years. The company got back about $29 million of that by withdrawing applications on some domains” With its partner in certain strings Donuts, Rightside applied or had part interest in 133 new gTLD applications. Rightside secured 39 new gTLD strings and is still negotiating on another 26. One of ... read more ...
 
Wed 17th June 2015
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Seller of Dot Money name for $90,000 once walked divided from The Apprentice UK TV Show - Elliot Silver broke the news about a $90,000 .money sale. The seller Adam Freeman from Essex, was slated to be a contestant on the British version of The Apprentice before he quit. The Apprentice UK is produced by Mark Burnett the same producer of the U.S. version. Sir Alan Sugar is the Donald Trump of the U.K. version. This was back in 2009 and after he quit The Guardian covered the story: He’s been called a wannabe and a drop-out, but the 31-year-old businessman from Chigwell told the Guardian ... read more ...
 
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After Selling For $750K In 2010, Ringtones.com Sells For $105K On Namejet.com - The domain name Ringtones.com just sold on Namejet.com for $105,000. The reserve price seemed to be $100,000. In all there were 218 bidders and the bidder with the  id easydomains won the domain name auction with a bid of $105K The domain name has an Estibot.com value of $909,000 Ringtones.com sold at Sedo back in 2010 for $750,000 although it’s not clear if the buyer of the domain name at $750,000 was the seller or if the domain sold a time or two since then. There were only 6 bidders of $20,000 ... read more ...
 
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How Whoosh Inc. Bought Whoosh.com from Directv - The following is an interview I did with Whoosh! Inc’s Jason Greenspan who I had noticed recent acquired the generic exact match .com domain name they have been attempting to acquire for the past 2.5 years. I tried to ask questions to give you insight into how, why and when. This is how it happened and a bit more about the company, its product and the domain names they own. When was Whoosh Inc. founded, what do you offer and what domain name did the company first launch with? Whoosh! was founded ... read more ...
 
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Mike Mann Sells Fun.co For $70,000 -

Mike Mann announced that his DomainMarket.com sole a domain Fun.co for $70,000

The domain name was “purchased a while back” according to Mike Mann.

This .co domain represents a 9th top .Co domain sale according to Estibot and a top domain sale by DomainMarket.com given Business.co that sole for $80K.

 

 

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UDRP Panel Rejects Fashion Television's Attempt To Grab Fashion.tv - Fashion Television International Limited has lost it’s attempt to grab the domain name Fashion.tv in a UDRP basically letting a pending court case in Munich decide the fate of the domain fashion.tv We wrote about this UDRP when it was filed a couple of months ago There was a report that Fashion.tv was purchased in 2014 for $125,000 but that does not seem to be correct, according to the facts of this complicated case which has been an ongoing battle between the parties for at least 10 years ... read more ...
Tue 16th June 2015
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Sedo Weekly Sales Come in Strong during $2.2million led by NKB.com - Over the past week Sedo saw 596 transactions take place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $2.2m. 51% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.   $2.2 million is a big week as last week was only $1million. Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: nkb.com at 31,000 USD Top ccTLD: tires.ae at 22,500 EUR Top “other” TLD: dami.net at 18,000 EUR New gTLD Sales for the week included: service.bike    5,000    EURx.lighting    3,999    USDmedien.haus    1,980   ... read more ...
 
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AT & T Researchers Look during Spotting Malicious Domains Using Word Segmentation - In recent years, vulnerable hosts and maliciously registered domains have been frequently involved in mobile attacks. In this paper, we  explore the feasibility of detecting malicious domains visited on a cellular network based solely on lexical characteristics  of  the domain  names. In addition to using traditional quantitative features of domain names, we also use a word segmentation algorithm to segment the domain names into individual words to greatly expand the size of the feature set. Experiments ... read more ...
Mon 15th June 2015
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Uniregistry Announces Sale Of Pro.Flowers For $50K To FTD - On today’s DomainSherpa.com show, Frank Schilling the CEO of Uniregistry announced that the registry sold the new gTLD domain name Pro.Flowers To FTD for $50,000. The domain name transferred from Uniregistry to FTD on April 10th. The domain appears to be on the Uniregistry reserved list as the domain was not “registered” by Uniregistry until the day before it transferred to FTD.  The domain was not registered by North Sound Domains. FTD is represented by CSC Domains. The domain name Pro.Flowers ... read more ...
 
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Domain Movers: LeapButton.com, Bra.com and More Domains - If this is your first time seeing Domain Movers, you are in for a treat! Domain movers is an exclusive series where domain detective Jamie Zoch scours the web and finds recently registered domain names, recently acquired and domains moving for one reason or another. These domain names often lead into new products, brands, advertising campaigns, services, tv shows and much more. These are often early detections, so often times very little information is available to what “the terms” really mean ... read more ...
 
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DOMAINfest is Coming to South Florida As Part Of THE Domain Conference - The organizers of THE Domain Conference announced today that DOMAINfest will be held on Sunday, September 27th as part of its conference, from Saturday, September 26 through Tuesday, September 29 Jothan Frakes, co-founder of NamesCon, will be bringing the renowned DOMAINfest networking and content, which will be a compliment to THE Domain Conference, with its Premier Sponsor .CLUB Registry Voluntary donations will be accepted in support of the Internet Commerce Association and the Water ... read more ...
 
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Some of Kim Dotcom's Mega Domains Expired and are adult for sale - According to TorrentFreak.com some of the domains belonging to Kim Dotcom have expired and are now listed for sale. Kim Dotcom told TorrentFreak the domains were not supposed to expire. “This should not have happened,” he says, adding that someone else in his team handled the registrations. Huge Domains picked up one of the domains. From the article: After the seized Megaupload and Megavideo domains ran malicious ads last month, there is more Mega domain strangeness to report. Various domain ... read more ...
Sat 13th June 2015
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UDRP's Filed On: eWomen.com; GSSF.com; Unbiased.com; AENA.com - UDRP’s have been filed on Filed On: eWomen.com; GSSF.com, Unbiased.com and AENA.com ewomen.com has an original registration date of 1997 and is currently registered to Terra Serve of Grand Cayman and is currently being parked to a generic adult landing page. Looking at Screenshots.com, the domain appears to have been parked for many years except for a time where is was a “contest” page. There is a trademark filed on the term ewomen which was filed bye WomenNetwork, Inc. of Dallas Texas on ... read more ...
 
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France Tells Google To Expand "Right To be Forgotten" Or There Will Be Sanctions - It was a little over a year ago when a European court decided Google had to grant its citizens the right to be forgotten. As a refresher this is what the court said: In an advisory judgment stemming from a Spanish case, The Court of Justice of the European Union said Google and other search engines do have control of individuals’ private information, given that they sometimes compile and present links to it in a systematic way. The court found that under European law, individuals have a right to ... read more ...
 
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Electronic Frontier Foundation Tells ICANN Not To Extend URS To .Travel - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EEF) has filed a comment with ICANN objecting to the Extension of Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) to .Travel Domains. “The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading nonprofit organization defending civil liberties in the digital world. Founded in 1990, EFF champions user privacy, free expression, and innovation through impact litigation, policy analysis, grassroots activism, and technology development. We work to ensure that rights and freedoms are enhanced ... read more ...
 
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Apple Inc. Acquires 170 iCloud Domains From Xcerion - In April 2011 Apple Inc. reportedly paid $4.5 Million dollars for the one domain name iCloud.com from a company named Xcerion. Fast forward some 4 years later and now 170 iCloud related domains have transferred ownership from Xcerion to Apple Inc according to whois records. Some Facts 167 of the domain names “start with” the term iCloud 2 start with My 1 starts with OS (osicloud.com) All of the domain names are either .com, .net and .org All the domain names were registered at Network Solutions ... read more ...