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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.

Sat 19th December 2015
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Digital media is on lane to pass television - Barron’s took a look at advertising for 2016, while 2016 is projected to be stronger than 2015 it could come in below initial expectations. Traditional ad sales are continuing to move lower and digital may be off slightly. From the article: Still, digital media is on track to overtake television as the No. 1 media category for the first time, reaching $68 billion in advertising revenue in 2016, according to Magna Global, a unit of the Interpublic Group of Companies. The hottest category, mobile, ... read more ...
Fri 18th December 2015
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Sedo has watched buy it now go from 2% to 56% - Sedo put together a graphic in their latest newsletter that chronicled buy it now sales. 2008 saw buy it now at just 2% now they are at 56% with numbers over 65% in recent weeks. Debates go back and forth about whether or not to list your names at buy it now or make an offer. There are pros and cons for both. The biggest con for buy it now is you will never hit that outlier homerun. You don’t know if it is Google hitting the buy it now or little Joe’s thrift shop. The flipside is that many businesses ... read more ...
 
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BY.com Added To Namescon Auction; Get's $500K Bid: My Interview W/ The Owner - The two letter domain name BY.com has just been added to the RightoftheDot.com domain name auction as part of the  Namescon conference. The domain name already has gotten a bid of $500,000 on Namejet.com in pre-bidding. No only is BY.com become the 4th two letter .com in the auction, but it joins AT.com as the second two letter domain that is a word. I had a chance to chat with the owner of the domain, André Eidskrem, about the very interesting history behind the domain name and why he is now ... read more ...
Thu 17th December 2015
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Verisign DNIB Q3 2015 Registrations have grown by 14.8 million, or 5.2 percent, year over year - Verisign (VRSN) released their 2015 Q3 Industry Brief Some takeaways: The total number of registered domain names rose to 299 million worldwide across all top-level domains 3.1 million domain names were added to the Internet in Q3 2015: This increase globally equates to a growth rate of 1.1% over Q2 2015 Worldwide registrations have grown by 14.8 million, or 5.2 percent, year over year. The .com and .net TLDs reached a combined total of approximately 135.2 million domain names in the domain name ... read more ...
 
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.XYZ Registry Reports Nearly All 5 Number Domains Sold Out - Daniel Negari, CEO of the .xyz registry has reported to TheDomains.com that there are less than 10,000 five number .xyz domain name combinations left before they are all registered! To be exact, at time of publication, only 9.59% are available to register of the once 100,000 according to the tracker provided by the registry. The XYZ registry easily allows people to see what domain names are available by clicking the download CSV file on the tracker page, which displays the available domain names ... read more ...
 
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Com Laude published the 3rd Report "Gazetteer of Domain Names" - Corporate domain name brand protection company and registrar, Com Laude published its third Gazetteer of domain names, highlighting the key changes in another significant year for the industry. The 135 page report, covers all new generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) registries from .AAA to .ZUERICH as well as legacy gTLDs (.COM, .ORG, .NET, etc.) and all 300+ Country Code registries (.uk, .de, .fr, etc.). Here are some interesting observations from the report: “There are now over 300 million registered ... read more ...
 
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Google Buys The Domain ABCDEFGHIJK.com - Google love affair for alphabet domain names continued yesterday as it bought the domain name ABCDEFGHIJK.com The domain name which was owned under privacy at the time, was owned by the Whois Foundation earlier this year and seems to have an original creation date of 2004. The domain name is another Google acquisition since acquiring abc.xyz for its Corporate parent Alphabet. Google acquired the domain name abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com as part of its Alphabet domain name strategy. Google now owns: ABCDEFGHI.COM ABCDEFGHIJ.COM ABCDEFGHIJK.COM ABCDEFGHIJKLMN.COM ABCDEFGHIJKLMNO.COM ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP.COM ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQR.COM ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRS.COM ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST.COM ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTU.COM ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUV.COM ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ.COM The ... read more ...
Wed 16th December 2015
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1st Time? Frank Schilling Has 11 .Com's At No Reserve In The Namescon Auction - Frank Schilling has 11 .Com domain names from his personal inventory up for auction at no reserve, at the RightoftheDot.com domain auction being held at NamesCon on January 11th. Pre-bidding is open for these domain names at Namejet. Over the years I’m not sure if Frank has ever put up any of his privately owned .Com domain names in auction with no reserve. According to Estibot.com these 11 domain names have a retail value of over $200,000 and they are all at no reserve (minimum bid of $300 each). Here ... read more ...
Tue 15th December 2015
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Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $1.1 million - Over the past week, 602 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.1m. 62% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.     Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: thehairshop.com yogashop.com at 20,000 USD (tie) Top ccTLD: sharks.tv at 15,000 USD Top “other” TLD: pricecompare.org at 4,280 USD New GTLD sales: 1.direct 2,500 USDcrosspoint.church    1,999    USDmaster.degree    1,499    EUR800.club    1,451    USDxiu.xyz    1,250   ... read more ...
 
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55 Three Letter .Com's From My Former Portfolio Sold & Buyer Is NOT From China - I just noticed that 55 three-letter domain names (LLL.com) that I sold as part of my portfolio to Godaddy/Afternic, which was announced a week ago Monday, have already been sold off and the biggest surprise maybe the buyer was not from China. Domain investor Nat Cohen’s Telepathy is now the owner of the following three-letter .com’s. All appear to be the type of letter domain names favored by Chinese domain investors those without vowels or the letter “v” Some repeaters are included. The ... read more ...
 
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UDRP Filed on Milano.com By Owner of Milano.com.mx - The domain name Milano.com has been hit with a UDRP. Milano as it is called in Italy, known to the rest of the world as Milan, one of the fashion capitals of the world. The UDRP was filed by Grupo Milano, S.A. de C.V. whose website is Milano.com.mx. Of course there are a ton of other trademarks on the term from cookies to clothing to bean bag chairs. The domain recently transferred which often will be cause a UDRP filing. The domain name is parked and has been parked for a long time. We will keep ... read more ...
Mon 14th December 2015
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DNPric.es Database Of Domain Sales Tops 1M: Total Sales Tops $1.6 Billion - DNPric.es database of domain name sales passed over 1,000,000 historic records. According to the developer of the site, not only it makes DNPric.es, the first one to gather so much public entries in one place, it is also times bigger than any other known data provider. According to the statistics section on the site: “The database has 1,089,771 sales records of 1,015,189 domain names totaling sales of $1,605,714,604” That is over $1.6 Billion dollars in domain name sales. In addition DNPric.es ... read more ...
Sun 13th December 2015
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Premium .SKI Domains Hit NamesCon Auction: Water.Ski; Jet.Ski, Shop.Ski; i.Ski - Some of the most valuable snow skiing and water skiing domain names are being made available for the first time by the .Ski Registry, in the RightOfTheDot / NamesCon live domain Auction being held on January 11, 2016 at 2:00 PM Pacific Time at the NamesCon conference at the New Tropicana Hotel Casino, online bidding will be available. Names such as Rentals.ski, Water.ski, Jet.ski and the powerful one letter domain, i.ski are now opened for prebidding on Namejet.com.  Those domain names were reserved ... read more ...
Sat 12th December 2015
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CSC's Nov New gTLD Report: New gTLD Sites in Alexa Top 1M Up 25% In a Month - Brand protection and domain name registrar, CSC (Corporation Service Company) has issued its “New gTLD Utilization Report” for November. According to CSC the number of active” .brands new gTLD’s (those with five or more registrations) increased from October when there were 53 .brand new gTLD’s with five or more registrations to 75 in November, representing a 42% increase. According to the report there are now 6,654 new gTLD domain names in the Alexa top 1,000,000 up from 5,340 in October, ... read more ...
Thu 10th December 2015
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Donuts: We are not Going To Delete New gTLD Extensions - Donuts has responded to last Friday’s cybersecurity consulting firm Internet Identity (IID) report predicting “the eventual demise of any number of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) and the websites populated within them—primarily due to financial underperformance”. Donuts has responded strongly to debunk the report saying as the largest new gTLD operator they will not be closing down any new gTLD strings. Here is the statement Donuts gave to thedomains.com exclusively about the “report” “”One ... read more ...
 
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Two More 2 Letter .Com Added To Namescon Auction; Now Have 12 Three Letter .Com's - Two more 2 letter .com’s are now live for pre-bidding on Namejet.com. Wi.com and FW.com now join AT.com in the Live and online domain name auction that RightOfTheDot.com is holding as from the Namescon conference on January 11, 2016. AT.com already has a bid of over $1.5 Million in pre-bidding at Namejet. In addition to the 3 two letter .com’s, there are 5 three number .com’s (NNN.com) also in the auction: 380.com 397.com 652.com 708.com 983.com We also recently added the three letter super ... read more ...
 
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Automattic.com Owner of WordPress Acquires JetPack.com - Automattic.com which is the Owner of WordPress.com appears to have Acquired the domain name JetPack.com Jetpack is built into the WordPress Platform and also serves as the stat program for WordPress sites like TheDomains.com Automattic.com has been using the domain name Jetpack.me for the service, but yesterday the whois records updated and the domain names is now registered by Mark Monitor with WordPress name servers. It appears that the domain name that was formerly owned by Jetpack Design of ... read more ...
Tue 8th December 2015
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Sedo Weekly Transactions sum $1.4 million led by Tonic.com during $80,000 -

Over a past week, 654 exchange took place on Sedo’s marketplace and around SedoMLS, totaling $1.4M.

60% of sum sales were a outcome of Buy Now listings.

HIGHLIGHTS OF PUBLIC SALES ARE:

· Top .com: TONIC.COM during 80,000 USD

· Top ccTLD: CAM.TV during 13,000 USD

· Top “other” TLD: LEARNINGMACHINE.ORG during 6,150 USD

 

 

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CentralNic Buys Registrar Instra.com & Stock is Down Almost 20% - CentralNic (LON:CNIC) is buying privately-owned domain name registrar, Instra Group, funded in part from a £10mln placing of stock with investors at 40p a share, for almost £16mln (A$33mln). According to the press release “the purchase will extend CentralNic’s capabilities and “significantly increase” its retail offering.” According to the press release Instra in the year to June 30 posted pre-tax profits of just over £1mln (A$2.1mln) on turnover of £7.11mln (A$14.8mln). CentralNic ... read more ...
 
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Uniregistry Put Premium New gTLD's Domains In Auction @ No Reserve - Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry has put many premium new gTLD’s, at no reserve, in the RightoftheDot.com domain name auction at Namescon. Unlike many new gTLD’s, all of these domain names have normal renewal fees. None of these domain names have been offered to the pubic before and include single letter and numbered domains like 8.Link,  e.gift, and b.sexy, as well as two letter words like We.Help,  plus category killers like Real.Property, Stock.Photo and Web.Hosting Frank Schilling CEO of ... read more ...
Mon 7th December 2015
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My Sale to Godaddy - By now I assume you have read the press release that my company Worldwide Media, Inc., more commonly known in the domain community as MostWantedDomains.com, has sold the vast majority of our domain portfolio to GoDaddy/Afternic. While I can’t get into the details of the transaction, I did want to share some thoughts about the sale and what it means and does not mean about the state of the domain industry in my opinion. Let me start by saying this transaction was prompted for personal life reasons, ... read more ...
Sun 6th December 2015
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Report: Domain 688.com Sold For $1.5 Million - According to a report appearing  in ename.cn, the domain name 688.com just sold for about $1.5 Million dollars. According to the report the sales price was 9,580,000 RMB which according to today’s exchange rate is $1,496,290.52. The domain name 688.com did change ownership yesterday. The domain was owned by a XiaoFeng Lin of China at the domain name registrar MAFF Inc. until December 5th when the whois information was updated to reflect LinXiaoFeng of DotMedia Limited as the new owner.  The domain ... read more ...
Sat 5th December 2015
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Census.com, In Last Namescon Auction Sells To Mark Monitor Client - The domain name Census.com which was in the RightoftheDot.com domain name auction at Namescon in January 2015, just sold to a Mark Monitor client as the whois information changed yesterday. The domain name Census.com was one of my favorite picks from that auction. The domain name had a auction reserve of between $100,001 – $250,000 It will be interesting to see who wound up buying this domain. Census.com as a parked page has an Alexa ranking in the 5 million range. In a just 5 weeks RightoftheDot.com ... read more ...
Fri 4th December 2015
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SK Lubricants Guilty of Reverse Domain Hijacking on ZiC.com - SK Lubricants Americas of Houston, Texas was just found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the three letter .com domain name ZIC.com The domain owner was represented by ESQwire.com The Domain Name was originally created on September 6, 2003 but the current owner obtained the Domain Name on February 28, 2015 and is offering it for sale, and is in the business of selling domain names. The domain name is parked. The Complainant offered $3,000 to buy the domain and then filed this UDRP ... read more ...
Thu 3rd December 2015
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Namejet.com Reports $1.56 Million In Domain Sales In November -

Namejet.com usually released a sales news for Nov stating $1,561,991.00 in domain names sold.

Namejet.com usually news sales of $2,000 or some-more and for that remuneration was done by a finish of  a month.

The tip 16 sales had 4 characters or less:

 

 

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