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.

Tue 12th May 2015
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Sedo Transactions Total $1.6 Million Led By Same.com For $233,333 -

Sedo reported that 673 exchange took place on Sedo’s marketplace and around SedoMLS, totaling $1.6 Million Dollars

56% of sum sales were a outcome of Buy Now listings.

Highlights of open sales are:

· Top .com: Same.com during $233,333
· Top ccTLD: Veilingen.nl during 31,000 EUR
· Top “other” TLD: Laws.org during $10,000

Here are a reported sales:

 

 

Via: thedomains.com

 
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.Design Is Live & Almost Everything is Available Including Single Letter & Two Letter Domains: My.Design - .Design just launched today into general availability and virtually every domain name is available including single letters and two letter domain names, for a price. Domain names like E.Design and A.Design and X.Design can be registered for $6,500 with renewal pricing at $6,500 a year at Godaddy (i.Design and u.design are either taken or reserved). You.Design is likewise priced around $6,500 a year. We.design is priced at $2,500 a year as is Tv.Design Domains like Great.Design and Top/Design are ... read more ...
 
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Co. With 13K Employees, 2,700+ Stores Found Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on Mango.uk - Consolidated Artists B.V. of  Rotterdam Netherlands was just found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the domain names Mango.co.uk and Mango.uk Its only the 5th time in 13 years that a company has been found guilty of RDNH on a .co.uk or .uk domain It should be noted that this is not a UDRP decision. Nominet the operator of the  .uk ccTLD extension has a procedure which is similar to a UDRP but has its own get of rules called a DRS which is published on Nominet’s website at: http://www.nominet.org.uk/sites/default/files/drs_expert_overview.pdf. And ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Gets .Games; Uniregistry Got .Game - Domaininvesting.com, posted today that Uniregistry declared victory getting the new gTLD .Game in as a private auction beating out Google (Charleston Road Registry, Inc.), Amazon, Dot Game Limited, Beijing Gamease Age Digital Technology Co., Ltd. However the contention set also included the new gTLD .Games whose application was not withdrawn meaning it seems that in the private auction the parties decided that there will be a .Game and .Games known as indirect contention. Donuts was the only applicant ... read more ...
Mon 11th May 2015
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.Sucks Registry Goes On Offense & Threatens To Sue ICANN For Defamation/Breach of Contract - In a sternly worded letter sent to ICANN today by the attorney’s representing Vox Populi the operator of the .Sucks registry put ICANN on notice that they believe ICANN has defamed the registry and its own rules and regulation and made it clear a lawsuit maybe forthcoming The letter was written by R. David Hosp a principal  in the law firm of the New York firm of Fish Richardson P.C. Here is the letter unedited, our comments follow: “”This firm represents ICANN’s contractual partner, Vox ... read more ...
 
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Chinese Public Co Stock Gains 10% On Purchase of P2P.com Which Was Once Stolen - FT.com is reporting that the shares in the shares in a Shanghai-listed real estate company known as Shanghai Duolun Industry rose by the maximum 10% daily limit after it changed its name to P2P Financial Information Service Co and announced it has acquired the domain name P2P.com The company said that the domain name p2p.com, was worth $100 million dollars “The website currently features a few photos and a Chinese caption stating “This domain is worth $100m.” While the FT.com story says that ... read more ...
 
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.Porn and .Adult Domain Matching Program For .XXX Owners Opens For Business - ICM Registry, LLC, the company that operates the .XXX, .PORN, .ADULT and .SEX TLDs, announces its Domain Matching Program for .XXX domain name owners is now open for business. “The .PORN and .ADULT Domain Matching Program gives most .XXX domain holders a priority opportunity to register directly matching names in .PORN and .ADULT. ICM Registry has reduced its registration fees for these names and some participating registrars are offering the names for as low as $12.99. ICM has created an easy ... read more ...
 
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MSNBC Covers Domains & The Presidential Election Calling it #Domaingate - MSBNC.com weighed in on the domain name side of the Presidential race today in a post highlighting all of domain purchases, miscues and game playing, which now apparently includes HillaryClinton.net “On Sunday, reporters began to notice that HillaryClinton.net now redirects to CarlyForPresident.com as well. It might be easy to assume that this was another work of mischief by the Fiorina campaign – but a spokeswoman for Fiorina confirmed to MSNBC that, in fact, the Fiorina campaign did not buy ... read more ...
 
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Domain Movers: Residential.com, 50.com, DP.com & More Domains - Domain Movers is an exciting series that is dedicated to domain detective work to uncover domain names on the move that have been registered, acquired or simply moving for one reason or another. Most of the following domain names have been acquired by large corporations. These are often early discoveries, so I try my best to provide information with each domain name but sometimes due to it being so early, not much data is available. Here we go with the latest domain movers: Covidien LP (Medtronic) ... read more ...
Sun 10th May 2015
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Those Involved With .Sucks Took Care Of Themselves - Since Domainincite.com has been putting out a few stories about the new gTLD .sucks leading up the hearing in Washington on Wednesday here,  here and here,  that the Internet Commerce Association’s own Phil Corwin will be testifying in front of, I thought I would point out some domain names that are not going to be available to be registered in the .sucks extension. It’s not clear if the domain names are registered or if they are reserved or blocked off by the registry but none are available ... read more ...
 
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TeriHatcher.com expires and sells on NameJet – Ex - TeriHatcher.com was auctioned off on NameJet on Friday, the auction closed at $232. The Desperate Housewives star had a dispute with a former partner which may have led to Ms. Hatcher losing her name. The other thing that is odd is the whois, when searching on Domain Tools the whois shows Created on 1998-03-30 – Expires on 2016-03-29 – Updated on 2015-05-07. When you look at the whois history there seems to be a mention that the name was registered in 2007, checking on gwhois.org returns that ... read more ...
Sat 9th May 2015
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UDRP Files on 15 Year Old Domain Name Colins.com By Colins.com.tr - The domain name Colins.com has been hit with a UDRP by the owner of the website Colins.com.tr Colins.com was registered in 2000. Colins.com.tr was registered in 1997 This is what Colins.com.tr describes the company: “”Colin’s, having the mission of “To make people feel better with the products and services exceeding standards in garment industry” was established in 1983. Colin’s, with its product range consisting of daily clothing, fashion and accessories for men women, procures high-standard ... read more ...
Fri 8th May 2015
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China's 51DNS Buys DNS.com: It May Sold For 4th Time In A Year - The company in China known as 51DNS has purchased the domain name DNS.com The domain name 51DNS.com is now forwarding to DNS.com The domain appears to have been sold possibly in March or April and it maybe the fourth time this domain name has changed hands in less than a year. In April 2014, the domain was owned by the Comodo Group, Inc. of Jersey City, New Jersey and registered at brand protection company CSC. which seemed to acquire the domain name in 2012. In June 2014 the domain went under privacy ... read more ...
 
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AdWeek "Should Your Shop Purchase a .Agency Domain ?" - AdWeek.com published an article on whether advertising agencies should step up and register a .agency domain. In the article there were a few people quoted, Mason Cole from Donuts who runs .agency, David Mitnick, an intellectual property lawyer and founder of domain name and brand monitoring services company DomainSkate, and Mark Ervin, chief brand officer at Big Communications, based out of Alabama. The one thing I found interesting in the article was that Mitnick said he felt it would be big brands ... read more ...
Thu 7th May 2015
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Qatar Airways Files UDRP Over 15 Year Old Domain DiscoverQatar.com - Qatar Airways has Filed  a UDRP to get control of the domain name DiscoverQatar.com which seems about generic as it gets to us. The domain name was first registered in 2000 and seems to have been control by the same owner based on DomainTools.com address linked to the domain since at least 2012. The domain name appears to have been parked according to Screenshots.com for at least 10 years or so. In 2013 the Airlines launched a service called Discover Qatar “that allows passengers flying with Qatar ... read more ...
 
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Rightside Made $7.2 Million On Losing New gTLD Auctions: Name.com Revenue Up 30% - Rightside Group, Ltd. (Nasdaq: NAME), today announced financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2015. Share are up fractionally in aftermarket trading. First Quarter 2015 Financial Highlights Registrar services revenue increased 12% to $42.0 million compared to $37.5 million primarily due to new gTLD registrations, improved performance by existing resellers and the continued onboarding of eNom wholesale partners. Registry services revenue increased to $1.6 million compared to $42 thousand. Aftermarket ... read more ...
 
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What Do You Get From 10K Free Domains? Some Great; Some Horrible; Lots of TM Infringing - As we wrote yesterday a domain registrar AlpNames.com was offering free .Party domains for registration, so we went in to get a sample of the 10,000+ domains that were registered under the new gTLD yesterday. Not surprisingly I found some horrible registrations, a lot of trademark infringing registrations and some domain I wish I would have registered. On the horrible side I found the soon to be very valuable domain names of ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.party ppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp.party On ... read more ...
 
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TheVerge.com Calls Purchase of RandPaul.com For $100K "Ransom" - TheVerge.com is apparently on the Verge of calling anyone who owns a domain name and is looking to sell it a Cybersquatter and somehow is calling on the next President of the United States to outlaw the practice of buying a domain name and selling it. The story is about Rand Paul purchase of RandPaul.com for $100k yesterday calling payment of $100K “Ransom” “Rand Paul’s presidential campaign has already suffered an unfortunate outlay: a $100,980 ransom check for RandPaul.com.” “Domain ... read more ...
 
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Domain Movers: QD.com, Circle.com, HorseRanch.com and More Domains - Welcome to the latest and greatest domain movers where we detect domain names on the move that have been recently acquired, registered or just moving for one reason or another, mainly all by large companies! These are often early detections and lead to new products, brands, services, advertising campaigns and much more. Here we go with the latest, and if you like this series, checkout some of the past articles here in the Domain Movers category. Future Media Architects Inc. has sold the 2 letter ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD 1st Day Domain Names Totals: .Video 3,271 & .Sale 2,160 - Rightside launched two new gTLD domain name extensions into general availability (GA) yesterday .Video and .Sale Including all domain name registered in the Sunrise Period by trademark holders and those that paid a higher fee during the Early Access Period (EAP) to register domains before GA .Video wound up with 3,271 domain name registered and .Sale has 2,160 registered domain names. .Video domain name registrations are priced at $34.99 while .Sale is priced at $22.99 at Enom.com Rightside now has ... read more ...
 
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Beautiful People Magazine Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking On BeautifulPeople.com - Beautiful People Magazine, Inc. has just been found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) The Magazine filed a UDRP on five domain names: BeautifulPeople.com BeautifulPeople.net beautifulwomenonly.com gaybeautifulpeople.com beautifulpeoplegay.com The three member panel of Jeffrey M. Samuels Esq., Jonathan Hudis Esq. and Alan L. Limbury Esq. found the Complainant knew it could not prove bad faith registration of the domain names beautifulpeople.net and beautifulpeople.com, and knew of the ... read more ...
 
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.Club Celebrates It's 1st Birthday & You Get The Present: $1 Domains At Godaddy Today Only -     It’s .Club 1 year birthday and in celebration Godaddy.com is offering .Club registrations for just $1 (plus $.18 ICANN Fee) for just today, with no limit (so is Moniker.com) Here is the press release from .club celebrating its birthday: “While much media attention has been focused on the defensive strategies that celebrities and brands are taking against the new .sucks and .porn domain names, there have been several new domain extensions enjoying widespread success, being registered and ... read more ...
Wed 6th May 2015
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Namecheap Launches Online Marketplace For Small Businesses - Namecheap is launching a new marketplace today for small businesses according to Tech.co Rick Kirkendall, the CEO of Namecheap is quoted saying “The Marketplace is similar to the Apple app store, where external developers can submit apps for people to use to make building their websites easier, after they already have a domain,” says . ... read more ...
 
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One Member UDRP Panel Finds Reverse Domain Name Hijacking On GreatRun.com - Nova Holdings Limited, Nova International Limited, and G.R. Events Limited, of Newcastle upon Tyne, of the UK represented by Bond Dickinson LLP, the United Kingdom (the “Complainants”) was just found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on the domain name GreatRun.com On the issue of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking the one member panel of Gabriela Kennedy found “the evidence presented by the parties demonstrates conclusively that the Disputed Domain Name could not have been registered in bad ... read more ...
 
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Alpnames.com Offering Free .Party New gTLD Domain Name Registrations - Alpnames.com the registrar who offered free and then $.49 domain names for .Science which just broke the 250,000 domain registration mark, announced today that is was now offering free .Party domains. Famous Four Media is the registry for both .Science and .Party. As we discussed before Alpnames.com which is located in Gibraltar as is Famous Four, only seems to have sold registrations on Famous Four’s extensions. .Party which launched a while back has over 5,600 registrations. Its not clear how ... read more ...