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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.

Sat 6th June 2015
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Inc.com Says Guru & Ninja Are 2 of a 12 Worst Things You Can Call Yourself On Linkedin - An interesting post by Inc.com on the worst things you can call (or refer) yourself on Linkedin and out of the 12 words you can use the authors says that two of the words are also new gTLD’s. “There are so many terrible words people use to make themselves sound exciting on LinkedIn.” Guru and Ninja both make the list. If these words are bad to refer to yourself on linked in by the same logic if you buy it they would also be bad to use as your domain name. Anyway here is what the Inc.com has ... read more ...
Fri 5th June 2015
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How The Internet Will Change - Fox News and their “Tech Take” sat down with Amish Shah of SierraMaya 360. The talk deals mostly with the Internet of Things and how the Internet will change. Shah starts out talking about smart houses and then moves on to smart cars, mentioning the Apple iCar which you can read more about here. Shah moved on to talking about things like 3D printing and refrigerators that order food. Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com ... read more ...
 
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.Porn Ends Its 1st Day Of With 10,038 Domain Registrations; .Adult 8,277 - According to the ICM Registry as of midnight EST, the first day of general availability (GA) the number of registered .porn domain names totaled 10,038. This number includes all domain name registered in Sunrise by trademark holders which numbered around 4,000 and the number of .porn domain names registered in the matching program for .XXX domain holders which was around 3,500 so basically .porn got over 2,500 registrations on the first day of availability. As far as .adult the first day of general ... read more ...
Thu 4th June 2015
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Airline Uses a .WS To Make a URL Strictly out of Emojis - Adweek published an article about an airline that was trying to reach millenials, They decided to use a .WS in the campaign and make the url entirely out of Emojis. From the article: Norwegian Airlines decided its target millennial audience was probably up to the challenge, though, so earlier this week it partnered with several Danish influencers on Instagram to spread the cryptic URL shown above. Coca-Cola used a similar approach recently with its ad campaign featuring URLs made of one emoji each. ... read more ...
 
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.Porn & .Adult Rack Up Around 4K Registrations In 1st Hour - According to Stuart Lawley the CEO of ICM Registry the operator of .XXX, .porn and .adult registry about 4,000 domain names were registered in the 1st hour of general availability today of the new gTLD’s .porn and .adult that went live at noon EST today. Of today’s registrations about 60% where for .porn and 40% were for .adult The first .porn domain that was registered was large.porn The 2nd .porn domain name registered was freehd.porn The first .adult domain registered was casino.adult The ... read more ...
 
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1st Day New gTLD Totals: .School 1,933; .Football 1,730; .Casino 1,447 - Three new gTLD domain name extensions  launched into General Availability  (GA) yesterday,  where domains can be registered on a first come, first served basis. Including the domain names registered in the Sunrise period by trademark holders and those who paid an extra fee to register domain name ahead of GA in the Early Access Program (EAP) here are the number of domain names in the zone file after the first day of GA are as follows: .School 1,933 .Football 1,730 .Casino 1,447 Keep in mind that ... read more ...
 
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Domain Movers: MyM.com, NowTrending.com and More Domains - This is Domain Movers! The series by Jamie Zoch who discovers recently registered, acquired and simply moving domain names mainly all by large corporations. These are often very early detections and can result in new companies, brands, services, products, advertising campaigns and much more. Sit back and enjoy! Time Inc. has registered the domain name SportsIllustratedPlay.com, adding to its domain name portfolio of over 9,000+ domain names. OfficeMVP.com has been acquired by a currently unknown ... read more ...
 
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.porn and .adult gTLD Domain Names Available Today - New gTLD domain names .porn and .adult become available for registration to the public today (6/4/2015) and there has been a lot of buzz around the two, simply because there often is around the adult industry. Last night, Stuart Lawley was on Bloomberg talking about .xxx, .porn and .adult that ICM Registry operate and you can watch that video here. About 6,900 .porn domains have been registered prior to public launch with the highest amount of domains being registered with CSC Corporate Domain registrar ... read more ...
 
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A small 6number.com Frenzy on Namepros and a demeanour behind during 5n.com - Ali Zandi formerly of Flippa and currently with his own shop at Perception.com, wrote a blog post on Namepros that listed 370 available 6n.com domain names. Ali has been publishing a series he calls the “Daily Dose” which lists names available for registration. A couple members regged one or two names before someone came in and took the lot, registered them and put them under privacy. This started a discussion on whether or not people buying and selling 6n.com are perpetuating hype around a ... read more ...
Wed 3rd June 2015
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Fred Krueger: "Why we Hate ICANN" - 1. ICANN spends something like 100 Million dollars a year on travel (more if you count the total waste spent by all ICANN participants) on various boondoggles in places like Cartagena, Columbia. The *exact same people* show up at these meetings, begging the question as to why they don’t meet in a more cost efficient location such as Playa Del Ray, California, where ICANN is headquartered. And the answer is — that would be favoriting the US. These other countries deserve their own galas, opening ... read more ...
 
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Media Options Acquires MJ.com to be detached of Ganjapreneur Network - In a tweet a few minutes ago Media Options announced they acquired MJ.com to add to their growing Ganjapreneur network. Congratulations to Andrew. For those who may not be familiar MJ is used in some circles to refer to Marijuana/Mary Jane. Plus you never know if one day Michael Jordan comes a calling he has the bankroll to pay maximum end user price. MediaOptions is proud to say it has acquired the http://t.co/l4pM59ygw3 domain name as part of its Ganjapreneur Network! @GanjapreneurCom — MediaOptions.com ... read more ...
 
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.BUZZ Registry To Release 924 Previously Reserved For Normal Reg Fees: Here is The List - The .Buzz registry announced that is will rolling out of a select number of previously reserved  .buzz domain names, which will become available in June. “In all 924 of our previously reserved domain names will become available to the public for registration at standard pricing, on a first-come first-served basis” The names are expected to be available on June 17, 2015. Included in the list are names such as attractions.buzz, funding.buzz, neighborhood.buzz, a number of Geo names and many more” It ... read more ...
 
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Name Jet Reports $355K In Sales For May 2015: Of Top 16 Sales 12 Were LLL.com or NNNN.com -

Namejet.com usually released a monthly news for May 2015 stating over $355,000 in domain name sales all of that are a outcome of domain auctions.

As usual, usually domain names that sole for $2,000 or some-more are enclosed and remuneration had to be perceived by a finish of May to be included

Out of a tip 19 spots 3 domains were LLL.com domains and 9 were NNNN.com domain names

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Via: thedomains.com

 
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Search Engine Journal: If The .Com You Want Isn't Available; Find Another .Com - Searchenginejournal.com,  just wrote a post asking What is “The Best Domain Extensions When a .COM is Not Available” and seems to conclude it’s another .com “”What do you do when the domain name or suffix you want is not available?”” “You may want to evaluate whether another gTLD (generic top-level domain) would work. The core group of gTLD’s is comprised of the com, info, net, and org domains. As well as the restricted gTLD’s, which includes, biz, name, and pro domains.” If ... read more ...
 
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Apple Loses Trademark Case in a Philippines - PhoneArena.com reported that Apple lost a trademark case in the Philippines. Apple was not applying for a tm but rather objecting to a tm filing from Solid Broadband who was looking to get a tm for my|phone name. PhoneArena.com wrote: When Solid Broadband attempted to trademark the my|phone name in the Philippines, Apple objected saying that it was “confusingly similar” to the iPhone and was “likely to deceive or cause confusion.” And while the Philippines’ Intellectual Property Office ... read more ...
Tue 2nd June 2015
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DomainAgents.com Launch Domain Market Place With Low Sliding Commission Rates & 10% BIN Rate -               DomainAgents.com just announced it has opened up it’s own marketplace with a sliding scale commission rates on negotiated sales, which I believe are the lowest in the industry and a 10% flat rate on Buy It Now Priced (BIN) domain names. “”There are 2 separate commission scales depending on the type of sale: Negotiated or Buy It Now. Negotiated sales (AKA Make an Offer) now have a sliding commission rate that the buyer pays: $10,000 USD Under = 10% $10,001 – $50,000 ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Weekly Sales Total $1.1million led by AoAo.com during $49,900 - 605 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.1m. 58% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.  Top Sales by Category: Top .com: aoao.com at 49,900 USD Top ccTLD: optimize.me at 8,000 USD Top “other” TLD: a5.net at 20,000 USD Always been a fan of LLTV names and it was nice to see LNTV.com sell for $30,000. Dot Club put up 3 new gtld sales all at $1,500, Canyon,Foto and Makers. ... read more ...
 
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WTF? UDRP Panel Finds OBSS.com is Confusingly Similar To TM: OBSS BUSINESS SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS - A one member UDRP panel, just rejected the attempt of OBSS Bilisim Bilgisayar Hizmetleri Danismanlik Sanayi Ve Ticaret Limited Sirketi (yes that is the company’s name) of Istanbul, Turkey to grab the domain name OBSS.com OBSS.com was registered on August 5, 2003, the trademark was registered in 2012. So the Complaint was dismissed by the panelist. The only noteworthy part about the UDRP decision is that one member panel of Kaya Köklü found that the domain OBSS.com is confusingly similar to the ... read more ...
 
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Caitlyn Jenner Sets Off Domain Buying Spree from CaitlynJenner.com to CaitlynJenner.xxx - Just around 100 domain names in .com and .net were registered yesterday once Caitlyn Jenner was revealed on the cover of Vanity Fair. While most of the domain names were registered under privacy, the direct match domain name CaitlynJenner.com was registered by domain blogger Jamie Zoch who also writes a regular series of posts on thedomains.com. Jamie published a post on his blog, DotWeekly.com  entitled Why I Registered CaitlynJenner.com In addition to .com’s and .net’s, CaitlynJenner.xxx ... read more ...
 
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ICM Says After .XXX Matching .Porn Has 7,500 Registrations; .Adult 7K & Sells A $500K .Porn Domain - The numbers are now in for the number of .porn and .adult domain names registered during the .XXX matching program Under the matching .XXX program the owners of a .XXX domain has the right register the matching .porn and .adult domains before general availability. Including to the ICM registry the operator of .XXX, .Porn and .Adult registries, including domain name registered in Sunrise, .porn now has almost 7,500 registered domain names and .adult has almost 7,000 The actually number of domain names ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Study Finds 46% Aware of New gTLD's; Only 80% Know .Com, .Net and .Org - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) published the findings from its ICANN Global Consumer Research Study, to measure aspects of consumer awareness, perceived consumer choice, experience and trust related to the current generic top-level domain (gTLD) landscape and the domain name system (DNS). The global study surveyed 6,144 consumers aged 18+ representing Asia, Europe, Africa, North America and South America, and was administered in 18 languages and drawn from 24 countries. ... read more ...
 
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State of Texas Fines EscrowHill.com $30K For Non -Compliance with State Regs - June 2, 2015 by Michael Berkens 27 Comments Escrowhill.com  has just been fined by the The Banking Commission of the State of Texas for $30,000 for doing escrow business in the state without appropriate licenses after receiving a C D order Respondents have been properly notified regarding their right to an administrative hearing under Texas Finance Code Chapter 151 (Chapter 151) Respondents are currently represented in this proceeding by attorneys Bradley J. Aiken and F. John Podvin, Jr The Commissioner ... read more ...
Mon 1st June 2015
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You Want To See Great New gTLD's? Look during The Early Domains In .School, .Football & .Casino - The new gTLD’s of .School, .Football and .Casino are launching this week into General Availability on Wednesday beyond the .porn and .adult of this world. If the new gTLD’s are going to be an investment vehicle for domain investors you need to look no further than the domain names registered in the Early Access program  (EAP) for each of these new domain strings to find the bang on brandable domains for the next generation. For .School, .Football .Casino we found these domain names already ... read more ...
 
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Domain Movers: Flok.com, EverydayValue.com and More Domains - Welcome to the exclusive Domain Movers series on TheDomains.com where Jamie Zoch scours the web and digs thousands of domain name registrations and domains on the move to find domains acquired by some of the largest companies on the web! The follow are often early detections of domain names being registered, acquired and simply moving by large corporations. Here we go with the latest domain movers: Apple Inc. has secured the domain name Research-Kit.com to add to its ResearchKit.com domain name I ... read more ...
 
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Heinz Files UDRP On KraftHeinz.com, Registered Same Day Merger Was Announced - Just two month after announcing its merger with Kraft Foods (NASDAQ: KRFT) ,  H.J. Heinz Company (NYSE:HNZ)  has filed a UDRP to gain control of the domain name KraftHeinz.com The domain name was registered on March 25, 2015 the same day the companies announced the merger, by someone in Korea. On the same day someone in Korea also registered the reverse domain of HeinzKraft.com with the same registrar, so pretty likely the same person. So far a UDRP has not been filed on that domain, however the ... read more ...