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 5th May 2015
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Is Carly Fiorina Lying About a Domain Registration? - We published a post earlier today about the domain name CarlyFiorina.org in response to 100+ stories published on how Carly failed to register the domain name CarlyFiorina.org and allowed a hater to get the domain and use it against her. Today in response to all the stories but not ours, Carly told the Wall Street Journal today that she “Should Have Registered ‘CarlyFiorina.org Before Critic Took It” and then told TownHall.com, “You can’t buy every domain name” which has now been repeated ... read more ...
 
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It's Official: NameJet Will Only Report Pending Delete Domains With 3 Or More Bidders - NameJet.com,  the domain auction platform, recently implemented a change to how they display backorder information for dropping domains;  i.e. domains in “pending delete” status. Since late-April NameJet is no longer displaying backorder or bid information for domains with less than 3 backorders on pending delete domains. This might make it more difficult for customers to find domains that already have some interest and value, but it will prevent people from leveraging the research efforts ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Transactions Total $1.5 Million Led by Daikuan.cn At 75,000 Euros - Over the past week, 583 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.5 Million 57% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. All sales were led by daikuan.cn for 75,000 Euro’s which seems to mean “loan” or “make a loan” followed by Historia.com which sold for $60,000 Notable sales include u.is which sold for $14,700 and three .co domain names: On the new gTLD front there were several sales with .Club getting the largest sale of the week but the ... read more ...
 
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Campaigns And Cybersquatters Register Domains adult to Decades in Advance - CNBC published an article an hour ago taking a look at the brisk action in candidate domain names. “They’re the modern-day real estate,” said Amichaim Abramson, an entrepreneur based in Brooklyn, New York, who bought a number of domains for future elections across the political spectrum. He said he hopes to help candidates he supports or keep domains out of the hands of those he doesn’t like, but he’s not looking to make money on the deal. They put together a chart of domains and candidates ... read more ...
 
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.NGO/.ONG Launches Today For Non-Profits: New gTLD's Done Right: Here is What You Need To Know - The Public Interest Registry (PIR) which operates the .Org domain name extension, is launching .NGO and .ONG today into general availability for Non-profit, non governmental organizations. The new gTLD domain name extension go live at 8pm EST tonight to be registered on a first come, first served basis. I had a chance to chat with Dave Stewart VP, Sales and Marketing of PIR about these two new extensions. .NGO and .ONG are being sold together meaning you get both extensions for one price., which ... read more ...
 
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Carly Didn't Fail To Secure CarlyFiorina.org She let it drop - There has been a fair amount of press that the new GOP candidate and former CEO of HP,  Carly Fiorina “failed to secure” her matching name with the .org domain name CarlyFiorina.org but here are the facts! Carly DID own the domain name CarlyFiorina.org Carly Fiorina Enterprises (which she is CEO and Chair of) according to Wikipedia owned the domain name since at least March 3, 2008 according to whois history records. The domain was actually registered on June 23, 2006 and whois history records ... read more ...
 
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CentralNic Adds NCC Group's Domain Assured Service - According to a press release, CentralNic, has partnered with global information assurance specialist NCC Group, in order to protect its growing list of clients from domain abuse. NCC Group’s Domain Assured service uses expert threat intelligence to deliver a complete picture of a domain’s threat landscape, which allows registry operators to monitor the overall health of their domain portfolios and major domain abuse types such as spam, typo squatting, hosting of malicious code and phishing. The ... read more ...
 
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Namejet.com Announces Over $630K in Domain Sales In Apr Led By NWN.com For $32K -

Namejet.com has reported over $630,000 in domain name sales in April.

Only sales of $2,000 or some-more are reported and usually for domain sole and paid for in Apr are included

All sales were led by NWN.com that sole for $32,220

All a reported sales on NameJet.com  are a outcome of auctions.

 

Via: thedomains.com

 
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If At First You Don't Succeed: Skx.Science Suspended in URS on 2nd Try - I believe we have a first, a domain name has been order suspended by a Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) examiner after a complain on the same domain was rejected by another examiner a month earlier In the first URS filed over the domain name SKX.science, Skechers U.S.A., lost its attempt to get the domain suspended after the Examiner, Luz Helena Villamil Jimenez,  found “the Complainant did not submit any arguments to support the grounds of the Claim. He simply mentioned the trademark on which the ... read more ...
Mon 4th May 2015
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A Look At The Domain Sector in The Public Markets - Value opinion on the DOMAIN NAMES sector based on DCF analysis To reach the fair value of this bundle of stocks compared with its market price, the following steps were conducted: · the added free cash flows of this bundle of companies (considered as a whole) have been projected to the future and discounted back by employing as weighted average cost of capital: a) The average of each single company WACC weighted for market capitalization; b) The average of each single company WACC; · the sum of ... read more ...
 
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JV.net still shows accessible to register though is indeed reserved - The domain name JV.net shows available when you do a whois look up, but when you go to register it the domain is not available. The domain dropped in 2013. The domain looks to have been owned by JVM out of Korea. These 1 and 2 charater .net names got reserved in 2005 and in 2010 Verisign wanted to auction them off, they later decided against that plan.   Usually when a domain is reserved the whois shows that IANA has reserved the domain like with the following R.net: It looks like JV.net must just ... read more ...
 
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Company That Bought Brand.com For $500K Sells It For $300K & Files Bankruptcy - According to technical.ly, after spending $500,000 for the domain name Brand.com, the company formerly known as Reputation Changer filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy last month. Technical.ly says according to the filing, Brand.com sold its domain for $300,000 . The domain name is currently in escrow.com at Igloo.com Technical.ly  also reports that the company sold the domain name NHQ.com, the domain for its content marketing identity News Headquarters, for $10,000. The Brand.com Twitter account has ... read more ...
 
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30 More Big Brand Fails: Bang On Trademarked Domains Continue To Drop To Third Parties - This is another post in our continuing series of bang on trademarked domain names that drop and the continuing failure of brand holders to catch them on the drop allowing third parties to register them and control them. All of these domains were owned by someone other than the trademark holder then dropped and could have been picked up by the trademark holder if they pursed the domain in the drop. Instead of the trademark holder registering these domains when they dropped, third parties, picked up ... read more ...
 
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Domain Movers: Skills.com, Nurse.com, CarClub.com and More Domains - Domain Movers digs deep to find domain names that have been acquired by large companies. Some domains may have simply been registered and others are moving around for some other reason. These are often early detections into new startups, new brands, new products and much more. Enjoy the domain data! Skills.com has been acquired with the help of domain broker Bill Sweetman of NameNinja.com for Skills.com Inc. The domain name was acquired on October 9, 2013 according to whois records and later went ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD .Sale Gets 165 EAP Day 5 Domain Name Registrations; .Video 125 - The new gTLD .Sale which launches into general availability (GA) on Wednesday got 165 registrations on the 5th day of the Early Access program which allows registrants to pay an extra fee to get to register domain names ahead of GA. The list of domain name registered yesterday for both .Sale and .Video comes from Registered.Today As you can see it looks like trademark holders that either missed Sunrise or saved a few bucks by grabbing domain names in the 5th day of EAP registered domain names ahead ... read more ...
 
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.Org Opens Nominations For 7 To Serve On The .Org Advisory Council - Public Interest Registry, the nonprofit operator of the .org domain, today opened the call for nominations to identify seven new members to serve on the .org Advisory Council. Today through June 5, 2015, individuals may submit nominations – including self-nominations – detailing the applicant’s experience in leading a noncommercial organization, commitment to promoting the noncommercial use of the Internet and desire to ensure .org remains the domain of choice for any person, corporation or ... read more ...
 
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Here Are The Winners Of $5K For The 2nd Month #Internetofficial Verisign .Com Contest - Verisign announced today the winners of the 2nd month of the Verisign .Com contest and has awarded $5,000 in prizes. KidsCookDinner.com Registered March 26th 2015 is an active site already a website is blog that encouraging kids to cook and eat healthy dinners. LastSecondFlights.com was registered February 3, 2015. SeniorBride.com was registered on March 1, 2015 SkinnyLa.com was registered on March 5th 2015 SoldiersOnly.COM was registered on January 28,2015 Unfortunately as one of the judges of ... read more ...
Sun 3rd May 2015
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Beyonce; Britney Spears, Blake Shelton; Rihanna, Jennifer Lopez All Register Their .Porn Domain - It looks like Taylor Swift was not by far the only celebrity to register a .Porn new gTLD domain name extension in the recently concluded Sunrise period. Lots of the biggest names in the music business joined Taylor Swift in registering their .porn domain including;  Beyonce, Katy Perry, Justin Bieber, Justin Timberlake, Miley Cyrus, Cher,  Britney Spears,  Blake Shelton, Brad Paisley, Faith Hill, Ed Sheeran, Sheryl Crow,  James Blunt, The Band Perry, The Beach Boys. Jennifer Lopez registered ... read more ...
Sat 2nd May 2015
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.XYZ Becomes 1st New gTLD To Top 900,000 Registrations - .XYZ has become the first new gTLD new domain extension to have topped 900,000 registrations. According to new ntldstats.com .XYZ has 900,739, domain registered. There are only 6 new gTLD extension to have broken the six figure mark (excluding the IDN .网址 (xn--ses554g) which are all registry owned) and here they are in order: .XYZ .Science .Club .Berlin .Wang .Link Here are the top 10 domain name registrars for .XYZ,  with the number of domain names registered by each and the percentage for ... read more ...
 
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Why Namecoin never took off - Namecoin has been an idea that has got some press in the past but never really totally caught on. The idea of a decentralized DNS system, kind of like domain names working on the same premise as Bitcoin. Coin Telegraph sat down with Michael Dean one of the biggest proponents of Namecoin. In the interview Dean says that Namecoin is pretty much dead. From the article: CoinTelegraph: You used to be one of Namecoin’s biggest cheerleaders. What happened? Michael Dean: So here’s my opinion, which is ... read more ...
Fri 1st May 2015
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Marksmen and Com Laude, Launch MCL Domains To Be Based In Seattle - Marksmen and Com Laude, announce the launch of MCL Domains “offering efficient, reliable corporate domain name management services for North America. MCL Domains opens for business this week at the 2015 International Trademark Association’s annual meeting in San Diego. MCL Domains combines Marksmen’s strategic and investigative acumen with Com Laude’s advanced technical platform, global registrar services, and noted focus on client service. Com Laude currently manages domain name portfolios ... read more ...
 
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HolidayRentals.com Saved In UDRP For The 2nd Time - HomeAway, Inc. of Austin, Texas lost its bid to grab the generic domain name holidayrentals.com in a UDRP. The domain name HolidayRentals.com was saved in a UDRP back in 2002. The domain holder Timothy Hall of the United Kingdom was represented by UDRP POLICE DBS, United Kingdom and was the domain holder for the 2002 UDRP decision as well Here are the highlights of the three panel decision of Nicholas Smith, Tony Willoughby and Adam Taylor: The Complainant is a US company, incorporated in Delaware ... read more ...
 
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Bitcoin Exchange PSCoin.com ReBrands to LZF.com - According to CryptoCoinsNews.com (CCN), Bitcoin exchange PSCoin.com is re-branding to LZF.com. “The Co-founder of PS Coin Daniel Pusateri told CCN that LZF.com stands for Laissez Faire, which means the free market, a market without government interference. At present, LZF.com redirects users to pscoin.com. The replacement will become complete within the coming weeks.” “Pusateri said his partner, Andrew Tepper, owned the LZF.com domain name and agreed to sell it to the company for $20,000 in ... read more ...
Thu 30th April 2015
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RightoftheDot.com Gets Godaddy Its Stock Ticker Symbol; GDDY.com Before It Went Public - GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY),  announced today it has bought the domain name GDDY.com through RightoftheDot.com who bought the domain name on behalf of Godaddy before it went public. When visited, GDDY.com takes individuals to GoDaddy’s Investor Relations page, enabling anyone to quickly find out more about the company. Right of the Dot, LLC, a domain name consulting service, helped broker the sale of the name. Mike McLaughlin GoDaddy Senior Vice President and General Manager is quoted as saying: “We ... read more ...
 
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Will Microsoft Buy Edge.com and Will They File A UDRP on MicrosoftEdge.com ? - Microsoft has a new browser that they are calling Microsoft Edge, Mike was talking with me and wondered aloud if they would go after Edge.com ? Three years ago there was an existing business on Chrome.com and Google decided to make them an offer and purchased the domain. Mike wrote about that here. Now Edge.com is also an existing business and not sitting there parked or owned by a domain investor. The company Edge Systems LLC was founded in 1985. From the homepage: Founded in 1985, Edge Systems ... read more ...