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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 25th January 2016
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HA.com to Hold Online/Live Domain Auction In SF: Submissions are Open - According to a press release we just received Heritage Auctions announced today they are holding an auction in San Francisco for domain names. HA.com is looking for: Short, punchy one word .com names, suitable for branding a company or a new venture. “Curb.com, Luxe.com, Hemisphere.com and Gazelle.com are great examples. .com is ideal. Short is preferred. Generic words, with no suffixes are best. Curbs.com is not ideal. Fencing.com is not ideal. Fence.com would be perfect. Short acronyms of 2-4 ... read more ...
 
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After 11 years Victoria Beckham gets her Typo .Com Domain: VictoriaBeckam.com - A UDRP panel just award the typo domain name VictoriaBeckam.com to the former Spice Girl and the wife of David Beckham whose website is Victoriabeckham.com The domain was first registered in 2004 so its been kicking around for quite a while making someone presumable some PPC money over the years Here is the highlights: “The Complainant is Victoria Beckham, a former Spice Girl and currently a fashion designer and businesswoman. The Complainant’s eponymous label was launched in 2008, and a diffusion ... read more ...
 
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Google Blocked 780 million bad ads in 2015 - Google released its Better Ads Report 2015 and Mike O’Brien at Clickz.com brokedown the report. It seems that Google blocked 780 million bad ads in 2015. From ClickZ: Some of the main perpetrators include: More than 12.5 million pharmaceutical ads violating Google’s healthcare policy, which doesn’t allow misleading claims or products that haven’t been approved. Scammers – more than 30,000 of them – peddling supplements that promised impossible-to-achieve weight loss Nearly 7,000 phishing ... read more ...
Fri 22nd January 2016
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.Green Is Raising $3.5 Million Through CrowdFunding - DotGreen Community, Inc., the company behind the new .GREEN top level domain name, announced today in a press release we received, the launch of an Internet capital raising campaign to raise $3.5 million. The first offering, a Regulation D 506(C) Private Placement solely for accredited investors, provides an early-stage opportunity of common shares with voting rights for accredited investors looking to own an equity stake in the green economy and green movement. A Regulation A+ “equity crowdfunding” ... read more ...
 
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All Single Character .Car Domains Are Registered: Here Are a Available .Cars - I did a quite whois check and found that all single letter .Car and single number .Car domain names are now registered. Probably not shocking to anyone but of the 40 single charter .Car domain names that have been registered, 27 were registered at Chinese registrars and 3 more appear to be owned by people in China at US registrars so 30 out of 40 are owned by Chinese domain investors. The wholesale cost of a .Car or .Cars domain name is $2,000 a year and the retail prices vary based on registrar ... read more ...
 
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CENTR Reports There Are 311.5 Million Domains In The World - According to a new report out today (PDF) by CENTR, which is the European country code TLD organisation, as of December 31, there are 311.5 million domain names in the world. 158.7 million domain names are Legacy TLD’s including .com, .net and .org; 140.1 million are ccTLD’s (country codes), 1.6 Million are IDN ccTLD’s, and 10.9 Million are New gTLD’s. The CENTR writes: “In absolute terms, most growth came from legacy gTLDs (largely .com) which grew higher than average due to sales in ... read more ...
 
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Report: Ad Fraud to cost advertisers $7.2 Billion in 2016 - Mike O’Brien wrote an article on Clickz that delved into just how much ad fraud is costing companies. The article referenced a study called The 2015 Bot Baseline Report, that report concluded that advertisers will lose $7.2 billion in 2016. The report breaks things down by media buys and what percentage are bots. The article goes on to look at ways advertisers can fight ad fraud. From the article: Released yesterday, The 2015 Bot Baseline Report estimates that advertisers around the world will ... read more ...
Thu 21st January 2016
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Live Tweeting During NameJet.com Extended Auction from Namescon -

Just a discerning note that we will be Tweeting some behest and auction formula in real-time on a Twitter feed that is @thedomains

We already forked out all a domain names that have met haven and will sell currently over a final integrate of hours, greatfully check us out.

 

 

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1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Family; .Feedback - Earlier today we wrote about .Car, .Cars and .Auto which ended its first day of general availability with around 650 domain registrations. Two other new gTLD’s launched yesterday Rightside (NAME) .Family and Jay Westerdal’s .Feedback. .Family domain names ended the day with 3,745 domain name registrations. .Feedback currently has 438 domain registrations. A .Family registration cost seems to be around $25 a year while .Feedback is $30 for a non-premium registration. A .Car, .Cars and .Auto registration ... read more ...
 
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.Car, .Cars & .Auto Hauls In Another Cool Million - The new gTLD’s .Car, .Cars and .Auto went into it’s first day of general availability (GA) yesterday a domain name  could be registered on a first come, first severed basis. According to RegistrarStats.com here are the totals from the first day of GA .Auto 164 .Car 136 .Cars 129 So basically 430 domain registrations at a wholesale price to the registry of $2,000 per domain, let call it a cool million for the registry The registry which is  a joint venture between Uniregistry and XYZ.com reportedly ... read more ...
Wed 20th January 2016
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Extended Namescon Auction Ends Tomorrow 125+ Domains Will Sell - The RightoftheDot.com extended auction from the Namescon conference ends on Namejet.com tomorrow afternoon starting around 3pm EST and closes in staggered fashion until around 5pm EST subject to Namejet’s normal closing rules. As of publication there are over 125 domain names that have hit reserve (or had no reserve) and have 1 or more bids that will sell tomorrow. Any domain name that did not sell in the Live Domain name auction which generated around $1.5 million in sales plus 200 hundred + domain ... read more ...
Tue 19th January 2016
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Sedo Transactions Total $1M; 61% BIN Led by HSZ.com For $65,580 Eur - Over the past week, 606 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1 Million.  61% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are:   Top .com: hsz.com at 65,580 EUR Top ccTLD: 7.gg at 40,500 EUR Top “other” TLD: photographers.net at 6,995 USD   .COMs Domain  Price Currency hsz.com 65,580 EUR 9208.com 32,500 USD makethingsbetter.com 25,000 USD cpns.com 16,000 USD atomist.com 11,800 USD myssl.com 9,995 EUR tecsa.com 9,995 USD ltse.com ... read more ...
 
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Coke Unites Brands Under "Taste a Feeling" They Got Twitter Covered But Not The .Com - Coca-Cola announced today that it has launched “its biggest marketing campaign in a decade, uniting its four brands under one new tagline: “Taste the Feeling”. “Coca-Cola today announced that for the first time, all Coke Trademark brands will be united in one global creative campaign: “Taste the Feeling.” “The soft drinks giant will ditch the different brand personalities across Red Coke, Life, Zero and Diet/Light Coke. Instead, all four brands will be marketed as Coca-Cola variants, ... read more ...
Mon 18th January 2016
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AlpNames overtakes GoDaddy As The 2nd Largest New gTLD Domain Registrar - According to ntldstats.com, AlpNames  has just overtaken GoDaddy in terms of the number of new gTLD domain names under management. According to ntldstats.com AlpNames.com has 1,016,800 new gTLD’s under management while Godaddy has new gTLD’s 1,005,071. Alpnames was founded in 2013 in order to provide registrar services under the new gTLD program. AlpNames has a 8.81% of the new gTLD market domain registrar market, while Godaddy has 8.87 of the new gTLD market. The largest new gTLD domain name ... read more ...
Thu 14th January 2016
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The Owner Of Rams.com Is Adam Dicker: Does He Want $1.8 Million or $650,000? - According to an article appearing in 4029tv.com, Adam Dicker says he is the owner of Rams.com and he wants a minimum of  $650,000 for the domain although the domain name Rams.com is up for sale with a Buy It Now (BIN) price of $1.8 Million dollars on Afternic.com. According to Estibot.com Rams.com has a value of $119,000 and according to a screenshot it appears the domain was recently for sale for $650,000 but the price seems to have gone up: Here is some interesting quotes from the 4029tv.com ... read more ...
Wed 13th January 2016
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Garden.org & All Assets Of National Gardening Association, Inc Up For Auction - Hilco Streambank announced today they were accepting bids for all intellectual property assets (the “Assets”) of National Gardening Association, Inc (NGA) The Assets include trademarks, domain names, customer database, established advertising opportunities and content libraries. BACKGROUND National Gardening Association, Inc. is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) Organization founded in Vermont in 1973 to sustain and renew the fundamental links between people, plants and the environment. Through gardening, ... read more ...
 
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Wolfram Alpha Owner Loses UDRP To Grab The Domain WolframVentures.com - Wolfram Group LLC has lost its attempt to grab the domain name wolframventures.com Here are the highlights: The Complainant is a provider of computational knowledge and mathematical software with offices in Paris, Tokyo, Lima, Linkoping, Bangalore, Boston and Champaign (Illinois). It has been operating under the name “Wolfram” since 1987. Perhaps, its most well-known service to the general public is the “Wolfram Alpha” search engine. Amongst other things, the Complainant has registered WOLFRAM ... read more ...
 
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.Auto .Car, .Cars Get 1st day Registrations during $60K Per Domain - The 1st day of the Early Access Program (EAP) opened up yesterday for the new gTLD’s .Auto, .Car and .Cars with day 1 prices set at $59,049.99 for each domain name at Godaddy and there appears to have been some takers at that price. NEXTEV USA, Inc registered the domain names on January 12th: nextev.car we.car NEXTEV USA seems to be the US operations of a Planned Chinese car manufacture who is looking to produce cars to compete with Telsa. NextEV intends to begin with an electric supercar, the ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $1.4 million led by AWM.com - Over the past week, 697 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.4m. 56% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: awm.com at 99,750 USD Top ccTLD: chocoladeletter.nl at 14,520 EUR Top “other” TLD: boutique.boutique at 7,000 USD .Dot Club posted a number of numeric sales led by 666.club at 3,600. Remember Sedo has changed their report for sales of $2,000 and above and no longer show those sales that were ... read more ...
Tue 12th January 2016
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Verisign's Top Trending Keywords In Dec For .Com & .Net Include Chinese Fang & Wang - The top 10 trending keywords registered in .com and .net during the month of December 2015 are below release by Verisign the registry for .Com and .Net are as follows. Interesting to note that Wang is the third biggest gTLD extension (.Wang) by registration volume  with over 620,000 registrations as of today’s totals. ... read more ...
Mon 11th January 2016
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.Club Sells Over 5,500 Premium Domains In Dec For Almost $615K - .Club just released it premium sales report for December 2015. On December 16th .Club released 13,000 new premium names to the registrar channel, with many priced at $100 or lower In all, 5,525 premium names were sold in December. Total premium name sales for December, from all sources, came to $614,071.90. Total premium name sales for Q4 2015 came to $2,350,116.47. As of December 31, 2015, total cumulative sales of registry reserved premium .CLUB names came to $3,398,167.27. The highest single sale ... read more ...
 
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NamePros to Broadcast Domain Auction from Namescon Live - NamePros will be broadcasting the live RightoftheDot domain auction from Namescon in real-time on Monday starting at 2PM PST. Shortly before the auction, NamePros will  publish a blog post that will include an embedded video of the live stream. If anyone arrives late to the live stream, they’ll be able to rewind it and watch from the beginning or watch it live. Once it’s over, the video will become a standard YouTube video for indefinite playback. All seamlessly offered within a single embedded ... read more ...
 
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Here Are The Domains For The Live Auction From Namescon - RightOfTheDot will conduct the live auction on Monday, January 11, 2016 at 2:00 PM Pacific Time at the NamesCon Conference, at the New Tropicana Hotel Casino in Las Vegas, NV. 130 domain names will be auctioned. The domain names not chosen for the Live auction will continue to be up for auction on Namejet.com until January 21st. Over 50% of the domain names in the Live auction already received bids over reserve and will sell tomorrow. Any domain names not sold in the Live auction will be added back ... read more ...
Sun 10th January 2016
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.XYZ Blows Past .US that Had a 28 Year Head Start - This week the new gTLD .XYZ past .US, the ccTLD of the United States, in the total number of domain registrations. According to RegistrarStats.com the number of .XYZ registration is 1,726,541 compared to .US which has 1,670.478. Keep in mind that .US, which is the country code for the United States, has been in operation for 30 years, launching on February 15, 1985. .XYZ launched on June 2, 2014. .US had basically a 28 1/2 year head start on .XYZ and now finds itself some 60,000 domain names behind ... read more ...
 
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The ICA Is Having a Coming Out Party At Namescon; Come Join US -

Michael Berkens, Esq. is a owner and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also a co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. that sole around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in Dec 2015 and now owns around 5K domain names . Michael is also a Director of RightoftheDot.com that is a consultant in a new gTLD space and a attorney of super reward domains. Michael was also one of a 5 Judges comparison for a a Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com competition this year.

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