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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 18th May 2015
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With 10 Applicants .Art Gets Scheduled For An ICANN Last Resort Auction - The new gTLD .Art just got on the ICANN schedule for a last resort auction. There are 10 applicants for .Art and the ICANN auction is scheduled tentatively for July 2015. .Art is the only new gTLD that is currently scheduled for an ICANN auction. Here are the 10 Applicants; some are portfolio applicants as well as some one-off applicants that only applied for .Art: Donuts Uniregistry Minds + Machines Afilias Top Level Design, LLC (.design, .wiki, .ink) Merchant Law Group LLP UK Creative Ideas Limited ... read more ...
 
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CNBC.com: Covers New gTLD's: 1and1 says New gTLD Account For 15% of Their New Biz -

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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The Eiffel Tower has Moved; Well On The Internet From .Com To a .Paris - One of the most prominent landmarks on this planet has changed its address on the Internet. The official site for the Eiffel Tower has changed the domain name from Eiffel-Tower.com (English)  and Tour-Eiffel.fr (French) to the domain name TourEiffel.Paris. Eiffel-Tower.com had been the official site for the world-famous Paris landmark since at least 2007 according to Screenshots.com The domain names Eiffel-tower.com and Tour-Eiffel.fr are now being forwarded to its new Internet home at TourEiffel.Paris. The ... read more ...
 
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4 New gTLD Launches This Week & Registrations To Date; .Style; .Chat; .Bingo & .Tennis - This is a busy week for new gTLD Launches with 4 new domain extensions. All four new gTLD went through a Early Access Program (EAP) for those that were willing to pay an extra fee to get access prior to General Available. Here are the new domain extensions launching this week and the number of registrations through Sunrise and the Early Access Program (EAP). .Style 293 .Chat 285 .Bingo 151 .Tennis 125 All four launch into GA on Wednesday.   ... read more ...
 
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Domain Movers: 31.com, KD.com, Swiggy.com and Many More Domains - Here we go with the latest installment of Domain Movers, where I detect domain names that have been recently acquired mostly by large corporations or domains simply moving by large companies. These are often early detections, so this information may relate to new brands, services, products, companies etc. Here we go! The Boeing Company has registered the domain name CustomHanger.com . The domain name was registered before in 2009 but hasn’t been since. KD.com has been sold by Zodiac International ... read more ...
 
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Blacknight Launches Jelastic Powered Next Generation Cloud Platform: Offers a True "zero formula change" PaaS Solution - We received a press release from Irish domain name registrar and hosting company, Blacknight which announced today they have launched their Jelastic powered next generation cloud platform, designed for developers and offers a true “zero code change” PaaS solution. “”Blacknight announce the addition of Jelastic, the developer’s dream platform, to their suite of services. Jelastic is the only zero code change PaaS that frees developers from coding to proprietary APIs. Any application can ... read more ...
 
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Google to supplement Buy Buttons to Mobile Search - Google is planning on launching buy buttons in mobile search only, there will not be buttons when someone searches on desktop. One has to wonder how all the advertisers who spend big money on Adwords will feel about this. Engadget stated there are several reasons why this will be mobile only. The biggest reason ? Mobile searches outpacing desktop searches. The Wall Street Journal is responsible for breaking the story. From Engadget: Google’s getting ready to face Amazon and eBay, according to The ... read more ...
Sun 17th May 2015
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Looks Likes Coupons.com Got $4.8 Million For Withdrawing Its .Coupons New gTLD App - According to Tweets from George Kirikos and Daniel Negari it appears that Coupons.com made a cool $4.8 Million dollars for withdrawing its application for the new gTLD .Coupons George found an SEC filing that showed Coupons.com received $4.8 million dollars from the sale of a domain name. Coupons.com withdrew its application to operate the new gTLD .Coupons which left Donuts, the only applicant for .Coupons the winner of what appears to have been a private auction or some other method to privately ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Could Be Privatized by a finish of a year - PCTechMag.com wrote an article that discussed ICANN being on its own by the end of the year. Fadi Chehade gave comments on Thursday that all the parts were in place for this to happen. From the article: The head of the nonprofit group that oversees the world’s Internet addresses expressed confidence Thursday that it would be privatized and out of US government control by year’s end. Fadi Chehade’s comments came despite criticism in the US Congress, where some lawmakers have resisted the plan ... read more ...
Sat 16th May 2015
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CEO of .Design on ReDesigning The Success Of A New gTLD Launch - This is a guest post by Ray King the CEO of Top Level Design, a new domain registry behind the new gTLD’s .Design, .Wiki and .ink. Mr. King  has also founded Semaphore, Inc, SnapNames, Inc, AboutUs, Inc. and ICANNWiki (501c3). The post appears here unedited: We at Top Level Design believe that .design had the most successful launch of any generic new TLD to date. Not only that, I think we are well on our way to proving that a new TLD can justify a premium cost when it offers better, more meaningful ... read more ...
Fri 15th May 2015
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UDRP Panel Finds Laches & Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on CanDoCanines.org - Alan M. Peters / Can Do Canines represented by Paul Schwarzkopf, Minnesota, has been found Guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on the domain name CanDoCanines.org The domain holder, Marilyn Mathis was represented by Steven L. Rinehart, of Utah The Complainant admitted that the domain name was not registered in bad faith but argued was held in bad faith which of course would have doomed his complaint. However the one member panel of Nathalie Dreyfus found the Complainant who just registered their ... read more ...
 
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Mayor Of New York Brags On .NYC: 97% Of Registrants Own 10 or Less Domains - The Mayor of New York Bill de Blasio today announced “that just six months after its historic public launch, the. nyc top-level domain has become the fastest-growing city domain in the world – racking up over 75,000 registrations to date.” Mayor Bill de Blasio is quoted as saying: “New York is the only city with top-level Internet domain exclusively reserved for its residents and businesses.” “Now you can add the City’s web domain to the long list of things New York City is known for ... read more ...
 
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New York Man Looks to Cash In on PrincessCharlotte.com - Here is a story from Mirror.co.uk about a New York man who hit the jackpot, at least in the opinion of some. Michael Katz hand registered the domain PrincessCharlotte.com four years ago, now that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have named their second child Charlotte, Mr.Katz is getting offers. The title of the article is a bit misleading, “PrincessCharlotte.com owner makes net gain of £6,000 with arrival of Royal baby” One broker Kev from Namepros, gave his opinion which I included below, ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy Sells Beijing.com Domain Name - According to whois records, GoDaddy’s newly acquired domain name Beijing.com which it acquired with the $28 Million purchase of Marchex domain name portfolio has been sold! Update: GoDaddy has confirmed the sale (see below) The domain Beijing.com has changed registrants this morning to a Ivy Wong at eName Technology Co.,Ltd Beijing is the capital of China with a population of over 21 million people. Denver.com sold for a confirmed “seven figure deal” in 2012. Korea.com sold for $5 Million ... read more ...
 
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According to SecureList.com New gTLDs are a strike with Spammers and Cybercriminals - According to SecureList.com there is one group that is taking to the new gtlds, that group is spammers. Stating that spammers and cybercriminals have found the new strings to be an excellent tool to promote illegal campaigns. It is a pretty extensive article that is filled with examples, I am sure this will rally the anti new gtld participants to say, “We told you so” I am sure the pro new g crowd will see it as propaganda or a paid piece. SecureList is published by Kaspersky Lab. From the article: Spammers ... read more ...
Thu 14th May 2015
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.XYZ Starts Taking Domain Registrations Directly From Its Site -           .XYZ sent out an email the other day announcing that they were taking live domain name direct registrations from their registry site at Gen.xyz for .XYZ domains While a lot of new gTLD registries look like they take registrations from their registry site,  I believe that .XYZ joins only Uniregisty as a registry, to have live domain name registrations from the registry site. .XYZ appears to be a domain name registrar reseller, rather than have their own Registrar credentials. I would ... read more ...
 
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Expired Domain Leads To Anti-Gay Protesters Accidentally Promoting Gay Porn Website - Everyone should keep up to date with their domain names and make sure they don’t expire. That is especially important when it comes to live websites, more so when you are advertising that website. There was a story on PinkNews.co.uk about some religious group in North Carolina protesting a rock festival using a sign that pointed to what they thought was their website. Problem was the domain expired, a Reddit user registered it and pointed it to a gay porn site. From the article: Anti-gay protesters ... read more ...
 
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Domain Movers: DNL.com, Ali.com, Laws.org and More Domains - The following is the result of heavy research and a lot of digging to provide you with many domain name registrations, acquisitions and simply domains moving for one reason or another that most likely wouldn’t be reported on otherwise. We call it Domain Movers and the articles are stacked with interesting information, so we hope you enjoy it! Unilever Plc registered the domain name AxeWhiteLabel.com on October 14, 2014 and launched the new dry spray brand AXE White Label in early December. Speaking ... read more ...
 
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.Design Winds Up With Over 5K Domain Registrations After 1st Day - .Design which launched into general availability (GA) on Tuesday wound up with 5,204 domain registrations according to ntldstats.com. The 5,204 domain names include all registrations during the Sunrise period by Trademark Holders and those who paid an extra fee to get early access to domain registrations ahead of GA (Early Access Program). We chatted yesterday that mostly every domain name was available in the launch of .Design including single and two letter domain names, three-letter domains, Geo ... read more ...
Wed 13th May 2015
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Weigel Broadcasting Co (MeTvNetwork.com) Files UDRP on Me.Tv - Weigel Broadcasting Co. has filed a UDRP on the domain name Me.Tv The domain name is owned under privacy since at least 2005 at Enom.com and it looks like it may have been owned by Enom.com as it went to an Enom.com registration page in 2012 rather than a placeholder according to Screenshots.com The domain went to Channelme.tv for several years for a few years ending in around 2009 according to screenshots.com The last time the domain was not under privacy it was owned by Hot Media, Inc. and Michael ... read more ...
 
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Qatar Airways Loses Attempt To Grab DiscoverQatar.org & QatarTourism.org - Qatar Airways Doha, Qatar, just lost its bid to grab the domain names discoverqatar.org and qatartourism.org in a UDRP which are owned by Travelindex SA The one member panel of Tony Willoughby found the Complaint which owns qatarairways.com slogan on its site “Qatar – Discover the Spirit” did not give it trademark rights nor did the “Discover Qatar” logo which they trademarked. Qatar Airways has also filed a UDRP against the owner of the domain name DiscoverQatar.com, that case is pending. The ... read more ...
 
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Co. Found Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on Mango.UK; Owns New gTLD .Mango -

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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BTC.com Launches New Platform For Bitcoin Users: $1M Purchase Price is a "Long Term Lease" - BTC.com announced today a new platform for the world’s Bitcoin users on “the million-dollar domain”. We also learned from the press release that the BTC.com sale for $1 Million dollars is “long term lease agreement” and that BTC.com plans on selling subdomains. We had an interview with the Broker who sold the BTC.com domain name which you can check out here Here is the press release: “BTC.com is the prime online destination for information about the Bitcoin and digital currency industry: ... read more ...
 
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Here Is The Statement Phil Corwin Of The ICA Will Be Giving To The House Judiciary Committee - Here is the Statement of Philip S. Corwin,  Counsel, Internet Commerce Association   will give today to the House Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet The hearing is entitled: “Stakeholder Perspectives on ICANN: The .Sucks Domain and Essential Steps to Guarantee Trust and Accountability in the Internet’s Operation” The hearing should have a live webcast here and is scheduled to start at 10am EST Here is Mr. Corwin statement and there are some ... read more ...
Tue 12th May 2015
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GM Becomes 1st Fortune 50 Company To Launch a Site On a New gTLD: GeneralMotors.Green -   General Motors has become the 1st Fortune 50 Company to launch a site on a new gTLD domain, in this case GeneralMotors.green Although other bloggers have pointed out Fortune 50 companies have acquired and activated new gTLD domain names, they are mostly re-directing the new gTLD domains to existing .com sites. GM maybe the 1st to actually launch a targeted site on a new gTLD without re-directing to  another domain name especially a .com. Moreover not only is GM using the .green domain name for ... read more ...