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 3rd March 2015
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Hillary Clinton Used Her Own Domain to Conduct Communications - The Washington Post and New York Times covered a story on former First Lady Hillary Clinton and the domain name ClintonEmail.com. It seems that on the day of her Senate hearings she registered the domain name ClintonEmail.com. This is important because only official government email accounts have their content retained under the Federal Records Act. The domain is currently parked at Network Solutions and registered until 2017. That domain is probably getting some traffic today, ads on the site are ... read more ...
 
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Namejet.com Reports Over $600,000 In Domain Name Sales In February -

Namejet.com expelled a domain name sales for Feb for domains that sole for $2,000 or more.

The sum of such sales is only brief of $615,000.

Here are a sales:

 

 

 

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Google Might Not Like Your Naturally Generated Links - Julie Joyce wrote a very interesting article on Search Engine Land about an hour ago on Google and natural links. We always tend to think of natural links as the prize or reward for creating engaging content. You didn’t pay for them, you did not manipulate the system, someone just liked your content and either included it in an article or on a forum or blog comment. Julie points out that SearchEngineLand.com is one of her best sources for client referrals and yet it seems Google has flagged those ... read more ...
Mon 2nd March 2015
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EasyGroup Owner of Easy Jet Found Guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking - EasyGroup Limited of London which owns Easy Jet, was just found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RNDH) on the domain name easygroup.com from Easy Group Holdings Limited of Kowloon, Hong Kong, The three member UDRP panel split in its decision, as panelist Jane Lambert did not agree in the finding of RDNH. We have written before about the companies seeming plan to get ownership of the term “easy” which another UDRP panel gave them,  to Easy Train. Here are the highlights: Its EasyJet company ... read more ...
 
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Namescon & THE Domain Conference Discounting Tixs But only for a Little Bit - Namescon 2016 special $199 registration rate ends at 4pm EST, or three hours from publication and is 80% off the price of a full priced ticket. So far more than 200 people have taken advantage of this special offer. NamesCon 2016 will be held on January 10 to January 13, 2016 at The Tropicana hotel in Las Vegas. THE Domain Conference, hold its inaugural show September 27-29, 2015 at the Hyatt Regency Pier 66 Hotel and Spa on the Intracoastal Waterway in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. is being put on by ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Beats Richemont To a New gTLD .Jewelry To Go With .Diamonds - Donuts has won the new gTLD .Jewelry to go with its .Diamonds new gTLD beating Richemont Richemont DNS Inc. is the wholly owned subsidiary of Compagnie Financière Richemont S.A, the prominent Swiss luxury goods holding company, submitted 14 applications for new gTLD’s of which they now have now withdrawn 4 including .Love For those not familiar with Richemont, they are a public company that own some of the largest luxury brands in the world including Cartier, Van Cleef Arpels, Piaget, Vacheron ... read more ...
 
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Publicly Traded BIMobject Acquires The Matching .Com Of Its Stock Symbol BIM.com - Publicly traded company BIMobject announced today that the company have acquired the top level domain name BIM.COM. The company is traded on the NASDAQ OMX exchange as BIM. CEO and founder, Stefan Larsson said: “Acquiring BIM.COM is an exciting step toward increasing our market penetration. BIM.COM is an under utilised asset that we can unlock to reach its full potential”, says, “A premium domain like BIM.COM will improve and protect our digital platform as the premier destination. It will ... read more ...
 
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.Porn & .Adult new gTLD Sunrise Period Opened Today: Live Registrations Set For Jun 4th - ICM Registry, the registry operator for the .XXX top-level domain (TLD) announces today .PORN and .ADULT are now available for the next thirty days to trademark holders who are registered in the Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH). Domain Names are available on a first come, first serve basis to those with validated marks in the TMCH. During this period the cost of registrations will be standard registration fees, and there will be no additional sunrise application fees; moreover, ICM Registry and the ... read more ...
 
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Yahoo Search Share Dips for February - Danny Sullivan discussed the February search share stats on Search Engine Land. Yahoo dipped after posting gains in the previous two months. The dip wasn’t that big but the company had some good momentum going over the previous two months. The data from StatCounter shows: Google: 78.7% (+0.1%) Yahoo: 10.1% (-0.1%) Bing: 9.8% (+0.1%) From the article: Yahoo’s share of search in the United States has dropped for the first time since it signed a deal to be the default search engine in Firefox. ... read more ...
Sun 1st March 2015
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ConnectingNYC.org releases some statistics on Dot Nyc - ConnectingNyc.org posted an article on the status of how things are doing so far with the Dot Nyc extension. The article went on to say there were two ways to measure the success of an extension. The standard way of success using metric and statistical data, and the other was to look at how it affected the community. Some of the metrics from the article: Traditional Metrics Let’s start with some stats on the number of .nyc domain names sold. As of February 22, the city’s contractor reported ... read more ...
 
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How Many New gTLD Registrations Will There be by a End of 2015 ? - The number of new gtld registrations stood at approximately 3.7 million to close out 2014. Our poll question for March is where do you see that number for 2015 ? The poll just went up and we did provide for choices that would show a contraction, so far half of the very small sample size has voted that way. Today according to nTLDStats the number is sitting around 4.4 million. It certainly makes sense that a lot of robo – registrations will not be renewed, some of the premium renewals will not ... read more ...
Sat 28th February 2015
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Jeffrey Sass Talks Dot Club and a formula of the Dot App Poll - In an article by Laurie Sullivan on Media Post which discussed Google paying $25 million for .app, there was also some commentary from Jeffrey Sass about .club. Sass explained how the pricing works at the wholesale and retail level. He gave a little shout out to Credit.club, the $10.99 hand registration that Bruce Marler was able to jump on. Sass mentioned Credit.club as an example that new gtlds have proven their ability to rank in the serps. Sass said early indications suggest many of the new domain ... read more ...
 
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After 6 Years Owner Of The Adult Site Brazzers Files UDRP Against Affiliate Brazers.com - A UDRP has been filed against the domain name Brazers.com which is a typo of one of the most popular adult sites Brazzers.com which uses also uses the domain name Brazzersnetwork.com to which Brazers.com is actually forwarding to. The complaint was filed by Licensing IP International S.à r.l which also owns pornhub.com, youporn.com and redtube.com to name a few.  The company used to be known as Manwin but its now known as MindGeek. The content on the front of the BrazzersNetwork.com is extremely ... read more ...
 
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The MPAA Would Like to Help ICANN set process in targeting Pirate Domains - In an article on Torrent Freak it seems that the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) is in bed with ICANN and is trying to use that relationship to shape certain policies. These policies center on the handling of domain names used by sites that infringe intellectual property. From the article: The MPAA is one of the ICANN partners shaping future policy for the domain name system. With Hollywood being the driving force behind the group the MPAA is particularly interested in making it harder ... read more ...
Fri 27th February 2015
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Google Decides To Reverse Ban of Sexually Explicit Material on Blogger - Well that was quick. We wrote earlier this week about Google banning pornography and sexually explicit material on Blogger. Well today the company posted on its product forums website that the decision has been reversed. Instead the company will step up enforcement against those that do not mark their blogs as adult content and those who may try to use the platform to sell porn. I think they knew people were looking to leave the site, as even people who did not have a blog with anything pornography ... read more ...
 
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LeatherCrown.it, Holder of Italian Trademark Awarded LeatherCrown.com In UDRP Based On Links On Parked Page - Oscar Studio di Cavallin Oscar of Veneto, Italy, which owns an  Italian Trademark  on the term “leather crown” just won a UDRP on matching .com LeatherCrown.com which was owned by Rob Monster of Epik who registered the domain name on July 18, 2012. The Complainant operates its site at LeatherCrown.it and has a Italian trademark registered on November 29, 2010 (filed July 28, 2009) in class 25 for clothing, footwear and headgear.The one member panel of Tony Willoughby, while making it clear ... read more ...
 
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Meet The Man Who Just Received 100,000 Shares in Jet.com - CNN Money published an article on Eric Martin of York, Pennsylvania, which is a two hour drive away from me. The article title was catchy, “This guy used a get rich quick scheme and got rich” When you read the article it seems Mr. Martin spent some money to get rich quick. We wrote an article earlier this month about Jet.com, the domain which was sold by legendary domain investor Garry Chernoff, is now looking to take on Amazon in the business of e-commerce. Jet.com was running an interesting ... read more ...
Thu 26th February 2015
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Google Paid Developers More than $7 BILLION in 2014 For Apps & Games On Google Play - According to a blog post on it company blog today “Google Play now reaches more than 1 billion people on Android devices in more than 190 countries” “In the past year, we paid more than $7 billion to developers distributing apps and games on Google Play.” “App discovery plays a critical role in driving your continued success, and over the past year Google has provided best practices to enhance app discovery and engagement, as well as app promotion tools to get the most out of search and ... read more ...
 
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Jennifer Wolfe Joins a DomainDiction.com Board - According to a press release we just received DomainDiction, a PR and marketing agency dedicated to the domain industry, announced that Jennifer Wolfe, “the world’s leading expert on TLDs for brands”, will be joining the DomainDiction board of directors. ” As a valuable new addition Jennifer will provide vital strategic guidance and experience with the C-suite among top global brands who are currently launching and creating strategy around their Top Level Domains. “DomainDiction works closely ... read more ...
 
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Google Wins The new gTLD .APP For $25 Million - The new gTLD .APP sold for $25 Million to Google today in a ICANN Last Resort Auction which I think is very good news for the new gTLD program in general. This is the highest price paid in an ICANN Last Resort Auction. It looks like Google was willing to pay over $30 Million based on the info published by ICANN today The previously high price paid for a new gTLD in an ICANN Last Resort Auction was $6,760,000 which was paid by Radix for .Tech. Radix was also a bidder for .APP .APP had the largest ... read more ...
 
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16 Year Old Domain Alessandro.com Saved In UDRP Owned By A Guy Named Alessandro - Alessandro International GmbH of Düsseldorf, Germany, just lost its bid to grab the domain name Alessandro.com from a guy named Alessandro In this case Alessandro Gualandi. The one member panel of Pablo A. Palazzi however refused to find reverse domain name hijacking which I thought was appropriate under the circumstances Here are the highlights: “Complainant is a company dedicated to manicure and pedicure products. The predecessor of Complainant, Alessandro Cosmetics GmbH was founded in 1989 ... read more ...
 
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Melbourne IT Acquires Uber Global For Over $12 Million: Australian Cloud Services Co & Domain Registrar - Melbourne IT agreed to acquire the third largest Australian based cloud services provider Uber Global for $15.5 million AU (approximately $12.2 million USD) which also owns a ICANN Accredited domain name registrar. The deal, is expected to be complete by April 30, 2015 Melbourne IT reported the acquisition along with its 2014 financial results yesterday Uber Global, says that it is the country’s third largest cloud provider, and counts 110,000 customers altogether. Uber Global operates the brands ... read more ...
 
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Here Is Our Run Down As New gTLD's Top 4.5 Million Registrations - .Science added another 14K+ domain names registrations yesterday in its second day of general availability, putting the number of new gTLD registrations over the 4.5 million mark. New gTLD registrations still have a large percentage of free, almost free, very low cost and related party registrations. .Science domain names which just launched two days ago, are still being registered for free at Alpnames.com AlpNames.com now has registered 26,656 of the 27,500 .Science domain names or over 96% of ... read more ...
 
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.APP Rolls Into A Second Day In The ICANN Last Resort Auction; Here's Why & What It Means - .APP which went into a ICANN Last Resort contention auction yesterday, appears to be going into a second day. ICANN Last Resort auctions, like private auctions for new gTLD contention sets, are not held in a normal auction format that most people are familiar with. Unlike a online domain auction or live domain auctions where bidders keep raising the bid, outbidding other bidders, within minutes of each other, what you would call a traditional paddles up in the air type of auction, Contention Auctions ... read more ...
Wed 25th February 2015
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Marchex's Archeo Revenue $14.5M In 2014; Horowitz Steps Down As CEO; Pete Christothoulou Takes Over - Marchex (MCHX)  reported its earnings for the 4th Quarter and the full year of 2014, after the market closed today and also announced that Russell Horowitz who has been the CEO of the company for the last 12 years is stepping down as CEO  but will remain on the board. Marchex co-founder Pete Christothoulou was named CEO. The company also announced that former Market Leader CEO Ian Morris has joined the board. In 2014 Marchex’s Archeo division had revenue of $14.5 million including domain gains ... read more ...