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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.

Thu 30th April 2015
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ICM Just Made $1.2 Million On Sunrise Registrations For A $370K Investment - The ICM registry,  which is the operator of .XXX, announced a short time ago that their two new extensions .porn and .adult each got around 4,000 registrations in the Sunrise Period which was opened to trademark holders. The wholesale cost for each sunrise registration was just $62,  which is quite a bargain considering that the wholesale cost of a .sucks registration is around $2K + for any domain they deemed as “premium” going up to $185K wholesale for a domain like ICANN.sucks Stuart Lawley ... read more ...
 
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Record Breaking: .Porn and .Adult Gets Around 4K Sunrise Registrations Each: 10X+ More Than Any Average - ICM Registry, the registry operator for the .XXX, .PORN, and .ADULT top-level domains (TLDs), announces the close of its .PORN and .ADULT Sunrise periods today with record setting numbers for new gTLD’s The Sunrise periods, which allows  trademark owners the first opportunity to secure names in .PORN and .ADULT, resulted in around 4,000 domain name registrations per TLD which is a record for any new gTLD by many times over. According to ICM, the best previous gTLD launches garnered around 750 ... read more ...
 
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.Me Passes 800K Registrations - The .Me Registry announced today that they passed the 800,000 mark in the number of registered domain names. If .Me was a new gTLD and not a ccTLD it would be the 2nd most registered, however they have not offered to my knowledge free domain names at any point Here is the announcement: “”We Hit 800,000 Domains! It’s another big day for us as the .ME has passed 800,000 domain registrations. We are proud that from the very launch the .ME domain became a premier choice for building a personal ... read more ...
 
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How One Tweet Cost Twitter $8billion in Market Cap - Twitter has been under pressure for the last couple days as a disappointing earning release caused the stock to take a dive. The dive started earlier than normal for a bad earnings report. Companies usually wait til after the close for release and full dissemination. A Tweet that went out Tuesday while the market was still open and caused the stock to plummet. The BBC wrote: What actually happened? Twitter was due to announce its earnings for the first quarter of the year after close of trading ... read more ...
 
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Domain Registrar MAFF.com Rebrands To XZ.com That They Bought For $138K in 2013 -                       The Chinese domain name registrar MAFF.com has re-branded to XZ.com We received an email from MAFF.com announcing the re-branding today. The domain name XZ.com was purchased at the Inaugural Heritage Domain Auction which was held in New York City in November 2013 for $138,000. The domain name Maff.com is being forwarded to XZ.com. ... read more ...
 
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Domain Movers: Haus.com, Gifts.com and More Domains - Thanks for stopping in to checkout Domain Movers, which is a series on TheDomains that digs thousands of domain names and finds domain registrations, domain acquisitions and simply movers for other reasons mainly by all large companies. Here we go with the latest domain movers discovered: Microsoft announced its new name for “Project Spartan”, which is the new browser to replace Internet Explorer. The new browsers name is “Microsoft Edge”. They currently do not own Edge.com, not even MicrosoftEdge.com ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD .Science Tops 220K Registrations; Passes .Club; & Who Is AlpNames.com? -                 The new gTLD .Science has now blown by the 220K domain name registration mark hitting 223,159 according to ntldstats.com becoming the 2nd most registered new gTLD passing .club It was just 11 days ago we wrote about .Science hitting the 120K domain registration mark and questioning the type of registrations the extension was getting. .Science has picked up over 100,000 domain name registrations in those 11 days. .Science is operated by Famous Four Media. The domain name registrar ... read more ...
 
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.Fit Finishes 1st Day Of General Availability With 1,269 Domains - .Fit which launched into General Availability yesterday by Minds + Machines wound up with 1,269 domain names including selling some of those premium domain names we talked about yesterday. .Fit had less than 75 domains registered during the sunrise period by trademark holders so basically picked up 1,200 registrations yesterday. It appears trademark holders went in and picked up at least  8o more domains during EAP as both MarkMonitor and CSC Brand protection companies had about 40 registrations ... read more ...
Wed 29th April 2015
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.Video Hits EAP Today & 85% Of All Premiums Are Priced during $200 or Less - .Video is entered the Early Access Program (EAP) today (day 1) and based on the volume of Sunrise registrations and search data it would seem to be a pretty hot new gTLD. We counted some 460 domain registrations by trademark holders in the Sunrise period which is one of the largest to date. Beyond the number of Sunrise registrations the registrations themselves are telling The CBS family which includes Viacom, Showtime, MTV and Nickelodeon registered a lot of domains not just of the networks but ... read more ...
 
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.Fit Launches Today: Here's Our Picks For The Best Domains But They Are Not Cheap - The new gTLD .Fit is launching into general availability today and thought I would let you know my top picks because I won’t be registering any of them. .Fit seems to be a limited extension when it comes to natural terms as Fit is falling on the wrong side of the dot. However I did find some good domain names that are naturals,with .Fit,  the problem is they are pricey in my opinion. I did check out the Sunrise registrations for .Fit and found only 76. One of the best trademark terms would have ... read more ...
 
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Godaddy Ends Sponsorship Deal With Danica Patrick No. 10 Team After 2015 Season - According to sbnation.com, GoDaddy will no longer sponsor Danica Patrick, No. 10 team following the 2015 season, however she will remain a Godaddy spokeswoman. But after the 2015 season we won’t be seeing Danica in the Godaddy Green car SBNation reports: “The move comes as Patrick is in the final season of her contract with SHR, though both sides have openly said they would like to sign an extension. In recent years GoDaddy, an Internet domain registrar and web hosting company, has shifted its ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Board Gives Go Ahead To Hotels/.Hoteis Contention Set In Denying Booking.com Reconsideration Request - The ICANN Board has rejected Booking.com request for reconsideration and thereby is allowing the Contention set of Hotels/.Hoteis to move forward to being resolved. Basically the ICANN Board is saying sorry Booking.com we will try to do better in the next round, and fix the problems that the Independent Review Proceeding (IRP) admitted were present in the Applicant Guidebook “The ICANN Board directs the President and CEO, or his designee(s), to ensure that the ongoing reviews of the New gTLD Program ... read more ...
Tue 28th April 2015
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Sedo Weekly Sales Total $1.2 million led by PAX.com $200,000 - Over the past week, 569 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.2m. 53% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.  Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: pax.com at 200,000 USD Top ccTLD: 1.am at 6,500 USD Top “other” TLD: restaurant.info at 14,300 USD 4 new gtld sales made the sales report, Entrepreneur.Business was the top sale at $2,500. Dot Am took the top two spots for cctlds, .CH (Switzerland) had a nice showing as well. ... read more ...
 
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DOMAINfest Is Back; Returns To Europe in June -                           Introducing DOMAINfest 2015 Sofia! The teams at NamesCon and DomainForum are happy to announce DomainForum and DOMAINfest Sofia, which will be held June 1-3, 2015, marking the exciting return of DOMAINfest to Europe. Having already operated a number of widely attended European DOMAINfest events in Amsterdam, Barcelona (x2), Paris, and Prague, the people who bring you NamesCon are proud to announce DOMAINfest Sofia, Bulgaria for 2015 to coincide with the 2015 ... read more ...
 
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79% Of The Attendees Of The Collision Startup Conference Using "Risky" Domains - Startup Domain Name Analysis (detail from infographic) (PRNewsFoto/Name Ninja)                 Bill Sweetman President of NameNinja.com, sent out a press release today saying that 79% of 491 Startups that will be participating at the Collision Startup Conference being held in Las Vegas on May 5-6 are using domain names that are counter intuitive and likely pose marketing challenges. Bill also found that more than two-thirds (68%) of the startup domains failed the Radio Test, meaning the names ... read more ...
 
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StormGuard.com Saved In UDRP - Storm Guard Franchise Systems, LLC v.just lost its bid to grab the domain name StormGuard.com which was just registered on February 6, 2014 The domain owner was represented by ESQwire.com A majority of the three member panel of Willem J. H. Leppink, The Hon Neil Brown Q.C. found that the domain was generic and since the registrant was located in South Korea is was unlikely that they knew about the trademark of the Complainant. However, panelist Nicholas Weston disagreed with the majority and filed ... read more ...
 
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Hosting Co. One.com Winner of .One Gets Equity Investment To Enter US - One.com, which also won the rights to operate the new gTLD .One,  announced today that Accel-KKR, a technology-focused private equity firm, and ATP Private Equity Partners (“ATP PEP”), one of Europe’s largest institutional investors in private equity funds, have completed a growth equity investment in the company. This investment will support One.com’s launch into the U.S., its ongoing product innovation and the acceleration of its growth in new regions in Europe. Terms of the investment ... read more ...
 
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Looks Like Namejet.com Is Down -

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I looks like a domain name marketplace Namejet.com is down during a moment.

We are removing an blunder page on 3 opposite browsers.

We only sent off an email and we will let we know when they are behind online.

Via: thedomains.com

 
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CentralNic Post Reports Earnings For 2014: Up Almost 15% in Trading - CentralNic Group (CNIC) today announces its audited results for the year ended 31 December 2014 and shareholders loved the report sending shares up 14.75% in trading today to 35p Shares have a 52 week high of 73p and a low of 23p: Operational highlights Net revenue grew by 99% to £6.07m (2013: £3.05m) – growing revenues from registry, registrar and enterprise services Adjusted EBITDA grew by 70% to £1.72m (2013: £1.02m) – reflecting strong revenue growth offset by additional costs invested ... read more ...
 
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NoMoreRack.com rebrands to Choxi.com - Internet retailer NoMoreRack.com has rebranded, the name they chose is Choxi, according to the company it is hybrid of “Chock Full” and Choice. I can say I don’t get it. I don’t think the name is easily spelled when one customer may tell a potential new shopper. On top of that Target used to sell a brand of chocolates called Choxie. InternetRetailer.com reports that the move was partially due to a lawsuit (which was dismissed) filed by Nordstrom 3 years ago. In the article the Chief Marketing ... read more ...
Mon 27th April 2015
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Pax.com Sells on Sedo.com For $200,000 - The three letter .com market has been on fire this year and today the domain name Pax.com sold for $200,000 on Sedo. The domain name has been under privacy at Moniker since at least 2006. The last listed owner before the domain went under privacy was Kim Site-Development Enterprises of Beverly Hills, CA in 2006. The domain name is still under escrow at Sedo. I’m going to take a wild guess and say the buyer is the maker of popular Vapor devises which have the brand name of PAX Pax’s website is ... read more ...
 
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Even during Grassroots Level Trademark Disputes Can Get Ugly - Mama, a charismatic woman with colorful Mexican dresses and braided hair, became an anchor in the neighborhood, and her cafe was ground zero for activists, academics, politicians and police who were pushing to improve the area. Today, Romero lives just blocks away, but won’t go near the little restaurant with the blue awning. She hardly looks in that direction, just across the street from the park. She’s also careful to never use the Mama’s Hot Tamales name — on her Facebook, email or business ... read more ...
 
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Domain Movers: Game.com, Meetings.com, Say.com and More - Welcome to Domain Movers where I detect domain names on the move that have been recently acquired, registered or are simply moving, mainly all by large corporations. These domain movers are often very early finds and often lead to new brands, services, products and more. Here we go with the latest domain movers, which is STACKED with great domain names! Say.com has been sold by FUTURE MEDIA ARCHITECTS, INC. to a Carl Ng / Stripes39 according to whois records. Carl owns several other great domain ... read more ...
Sun 26th April 2015
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Escrow.com Purchased for $7.5million - Freelancer.com announces the acquisition of Escrow.com and completion of capital raising Some big news for a Sunday night, Escrow.com getting acquired by Freelancer.com. Back in September of 2014, Escrow.com purchased Agreed.com. SYDNEY, April 27, 2015: Freelancer.com, the world’s largest freelancing and crowdsourcing marketplace,today announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Escrow.com from a private investor for US$7.5 million in cash, and completed a AUD$10 million ... read more ...
 
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Majority of the check respondents see new gtld registrations finale 2015 on a green note - We started a poll two months ago that asked, “How Many New gTLD Registrations Will There Be By The End of 2015?” Currently there are over 5 million new gtld registrations according to multiple sources such as ntldstats.com. The majority of respondents see the numbers going down. 27% of readers who participated see 2015 ending with 2 million or less registrations. Thanks for voting and here are the results: 2 million or less (27%, 93 Votes) 8,000,000-10 Million (13%, 45 Votes) Over 20 Million ... read more ...