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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.

Thu 3rd December 2015
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.Club Has Record Month Selling Over $1.6 In Premium Domains - .Club announced today on its blog, that they had a record-setting month in November selling $1,622,164.13 in premium domain names. In all .Club sold 326 premium domains in November. .Club continues to be fully transparent in its sales activities: November was a record-breaking month for both regular .CLUB registrations and premium name sales. It was our first month with more than $1 million in Premium Name sales, with strong deals coming from two auctions, our registrar channel, registry direct ... read more ...
Wed 2nd December 2015
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.Global Is Giving Away A Premium Domain Everyday Until Christmas: Housing.Global Was The 1st -   .Global is giving away a FREE Premium domain name a day, everyday until Christmas. The daily contest started yesterday and the first domain name won was housing.global and Damon Barnard was the lucky winner In all there are $50,000 worth of .GLOBAL premium names to be won! You need to enter the contest each day for a chance to win the domain name for that day. Today’s free domain name is LowFare.Global. .Global does not have a premium renewal fee so all these premium domain names will renew ... read more ...
Tue 1st December 2015
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Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $1.4 million - Over the past week, 832 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.4m. 66% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.     Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: farma.com at 40,000 EUR Top ccTLD: shoop.de at 40,000 EUR Top “other” TLD: verity.org at 16,500 USD New Gtld Sales: 988.xyz 3,000 USDrobots.life    2,500    USD888.link    1,888    GBPproduction.club    1,250    EURlaunch.agency    1,000    USDhomecare.guide   ... read more ...
 
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Is Amazon.com Getting into The Ticket Biz? Checkout These 3 New Domain Registrations - Amazon.com registered three very interesting domain names yesterday that may indicate a new business for the company. Amazon registered the domain names AmazonConcerts.com AmazonConcertTickets.com and AmazonTheaterTickets.com yesterday through the brand protection company and domain name registrar, MarkMonitor.com. This might indicate that Amazon might be getting into the ticket business to maybe take on Ticketmaster.com and/or StubHub.com Interestingly the domain name AmazonSportsTickets.com is ... read more ...
Mon 30th November 2015
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7X Bigger Than Las Vegas In Gambling Revenue, Macau.com Hits The Market - Earlier this month we learned that LasVegas.com sold back in 2005 for what could be up to $90 Million Dollars. In August the sale of Vegas.com was announced to a public company in a deal that could be worth $38 million dollars. In both instances, Vegas has consistently set the record valuation marks as the most valuable destination-specific website in the world. Now the website and domain address Macau.com has hit the market. Yes Macau is the world’s top casino market, with gaming revenues ... read more ...
Sun 29th November 2015
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.XYZ Has More Domain Registrations Than Donuts 183 gTLD's Combined - According to ntldstats.com, .XYZ has more domain registrations than all of Donuts strings combined. Donuts has 1,527,510 domain registrations according to ntldstats.com (including 35,306 which are upcoming delete) while .XYZ has 1,560,576 active domains according to namestat.org. There are 183 new gTLD’s of Donuts in general availability (GA) meaning they can be registered on a first come first served basis The most registered Donuts new gTLD is .Guru with over 67,000 registrations. The least registered ... read more ...
Sat 28th November 2015
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.Club Breaks 420,000 Registrations Adding 100K In Two Weeks - The new gTLD .Club has broken through the 400,000 registration mark. Colin Campbell co-founder of .Club announced on Twitter yesterday that all NNNNN.club domain names were all registered just 2 weeks after all NNNN.club domain names sold out. Those registrations helped move .club to over 420,000 registrations according to ntldstats.com, which is 100,000 new domain names registrations since just two weeks ago,on November 14th where .club sat at 320,000 registered domain names. I should remind you ... read more ...
Fri 27th November 2015
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CES Conference Drops Its Domain Ce.org For CTA.Tech - The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) parent company of the giant electronic show, CES which is held every January in Las Vegas, has dropped its 2 character .org for a new gTLD, .tech domain name The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), the non-profit organization unveiled its new name, the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) and introduced its new logo on November 11th. The company previously used ce.org which now redirects to cta.tech, its primary domain. Jeff Joseph, VP of Communications ... read more ...
Thu 26th November 2015
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Happy Thanksgiving - Happy Thanksgiving to all our readers from everyone here at TheDomains.com. 2015 has been a strong year as far as traffic, comments and revenue. We thank all our readers and advertisers for spending your time and or money with us in 2015. This has certainly been a transcendent year for domaining as short domains and the Chinese domain boom have turned sections of domaining into the Forex markets. Enjoy the day however you see fit and thank you once again from Michael, Raymond and Jamie. ... read more ...
Tue 24th November 2015
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Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $1.5million led by Aflam.com during $34,000 - Over the past week, 1,080 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.5m. 67% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.     Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: aflam.com at 34,000 USD Top ccTLD: sponsor.me at 10,000 EUR Top “other” TLD: palm.info at 12,500 EUR New Gtld sales: geneva.consulting    3,000    USDasia.finance    1,088    USDcode.tips    1,000    USD8888.link    888    USD777.click    850    USDtrue.marketing   ... read more ...
 
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Namecheap Holding Black Friday/Cyber Monday Sale With "$10 Million in Savings" - Namecheap, a leading ICANN-accredited domain registrar and web hosting company, announced their major annual Black Friday/Cyber Monday Sale. The two-day event offers over $10 million in savings and the lowest prices available for the year. Customers can save big not only on domain names and hosting, but SSLs, website builders, email hosting, and more. Rick Kirkendall, Namecheap CEO is quoted in a press release as saying: “There is literally no better time to buy what you need to set up a web presence ... read more ...
 
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Owner of NewForests.com.au Found Guilty Of Reverse Domain Hijacking on 16 Yr Old .Com - New Forests Asset Management Pty Limited of North Sydney, Australia, represented by Clayton Utz Solicitors, Australia was just found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking (RDNH) on the domain name newforests.com after offering just $4,000 to by the domain The company owns the domain name newforests.com.au which was registered in June 2006 The domain name NewForests.com was registered back on January 28, 1999 The three member panel of Luca Barbero, David Stone and Tony Willoughby found Reverse Domain ... read more ...
 
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Remember Those Free .Realtor Domains? They Do Not Appear Free To Renew - Remember when the new gTLD .Realtor rolled out giving members of the National Association of REALTORS as well as the Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) the chance to register a  free .Realtor domain name? .Realtor went to far to warn its members just over a year ago not to “pre-register or pay money to an outside company for a .REALTOR top level domain because NAR will oversee registrations for .REALTOR…only NAR members are eligible for a .REALTOR domain and membership will be verified ... read more ...
Mon 23rd November 2015
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.XYZ Tops 1.5 Million Domains As Domain Registrations Return To Normal - .XYZ just broke through the 1.5 million mark in registered domain names which is net includes pending deletes. The CEO of XYZ Daniel Negari told TheDomains.com that he was ecstatic! and thinks they should break 2 Million within the next 6 – 9 months. In general domain world returned to normal numbers over the last few days as yesterday looked like a typical Sunday. Total new domains were just over 122,000 but only over 12,000 net after deleted domain names. .Com as more typical gained a  few ... read more ...
Sun 22nd November 2015
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AT.com Gets a $1.5 Million Bid At NameJet.com - On Thursday we told you that the domain name AT.com was added to the RightoftheDot domain name auction being held as part of the NamesCon Conference on January 11th 2016, for which pre-bidding is now opened on Namejet.com There is now a qualified $1.5 Million dollar bid on the domain name AT.com which of course is a even a more rare than a Two Letter .com which only has 676 possible combinations since it’s a word as well. 47 domain names that are live for pre-bidding now have a least one bid on ... read more ...
Fri 20th November 2015
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Judge In 1st Verisign vs. XYZ Case Publishes 15 Page Opinion - The federal judge CLAUDE M. HILTON who granted a summary judgement in favor of .XYZ and Daniel Negari last month throwing Verisign’s case for false advertising out, today handed down a 15 page Memorandum Opinion supporting the summary judgement decision and of course its very interesting. Here are the highlights: THIS MATTER comes before the Court on Defendants XYZ.COM, LLC and Daniel Negari ‘s (“XYZ” or “Defendants”) Motion for Summary Judgment. Plaintiff Verisign, Inc Defendant XYZ ... read more ...
 
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XYZ & Negari Beats Verisign In Federal Court, Again: CentralNic Too - .XYZ has just won another court battle against Verisign (VRSN). Back three weeks ago a Federal Court dismissed a case brought by Verisign against XYZ.com,  the registry for .XYZ and Daniel Negari personally alleging  false advertising by granting XYZ and Negari a short summary judgement opinion. Now in a second case in Verisign sued XYZ.COM, DANIEL NEGARI and CentralNic,  which is the back-end provider for the .XYZ registry,  for tortuous interference and business conspiracy relating to changing ... read more ...
 
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Radix: .ONLINE Fastest New gTLD to Sell 100,000 Domains - Radix the registry for .ONLINE announced today that .Online is the fastest gTLD to sell 100,000 domains names since their launch less than 3 months ago. After a very successful launch which broke all new gTLD records with 38,000 domain names registered in the first 24 hours of General Availability, .online surpassed 100,000 domain registrations this morning. The 100,000th domain to be registered was myfamilyroots.online that came through eNom. This milestone comes at a time as Radix also surpasses ... read more ...
Thu 19th November 2015
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Report: 88.XIN Sells for $180,000 - According to a blog post appearing in .XIN registry, the domain name 88.XIN recently sold for ¥1,140,888 at a domain name auction, which is around $180,000 USD. According to the blog post .XIN sold  a total of 9 domain names for 3.14 million yuan which equates to over $523K USD. Other domain name reportedly sold in the auction included 789.xin for 400,500 yuan and 188.xin for 403,800 yuan which comes to around $67k USD each. .XIN is a new gTLD and according to ntldstats.com has almost 90,000 ... read more ...
 
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AT.com Added To ROTD/ NamesCon Auction As Submissions Closes Tomorrow - The two letter domain name AT.com is one of several new domain names that were added to the RightoftheDot/Namescon auction yesterday, which is opened for pre-bidding on Namejet.com. As of publication there are now 147 domain names at Namejet.com for pre-bidding. 89 domain names have at least one bid and there are 531 total bids placed. To see the updated list of domains at Namejet.com you can click here. Submissions to be included in the domain name auction closes tomorrow Friday, November 20 at ... read more ...
Wed 18th November 2015
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Google Starts Rolling Out Fully Designed The New Google+ - In a blog post today, Google introduced the world to the new Google+ “Today, we’re starting to introduce a fully redesigned Google+ that puts Communities and Collections front and center” “Communities, which now average 1.2 million new joins per day, and Collections, which launched just five months ago and is growing even faster. Whether it’s the Nonfiction Addiction Community, where people can be found discussing the best in Crime or Travel storytelling, or the Watch Project Collection, ... read more ...
 
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DosGringos.com Gets Sun.Flowers From Uniregistry Under Founders Program - Uniregistry, the company behind the new gTLD .Flowers announced today that “Dos Gringos (DosGringos.com), the expert grower and supplier of sunflowers to retailers across the United States, today announced a strategic alliance with Uniregistry who acquired the domain name Sun.Flowers through the Uniregistry Pioneers Program. Sun.Flowers (www.sun.flowers), a knowledge specialist in all things sunflowers, offers a unique shop of exclusive sunflower bouquets and an online magazine. , began developing ... read more ...
 
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3.2 Million .Com Added In Last 3 Weeks More Than Increase In All Domains in 2Q - As of today Verisign is reporting that the .Com zone file has topped 123 million domain names; 123,203,096 On October 27, 2015, three weeks ago, the .com zone file topped 120 Million for the first time and had 120,034,068 domain names. So we are looking at an increase of almost 3.2 million new .com domain names since October 27th, three weeks ago. Consider that Verisign reported in this last Domain Industry Brief for second quarter of 2015 there were  “296 million domain name registrations across ... read more ...
Tue 17th November 2015
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Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $2.4million led by ICT.com during 38,000 Euros - Over the past week, 807 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $2.4m. 60% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.     Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: ict.com at 38,000 EUR Top ccTLD: your.tv at 20,000 EUR Top “other” TLD: scrip.net at 14,709 USD New Gtld Sales: iac.pub    1,500    USDphp.guru    1,300    EURprogramming.guru    1,150    USDaabb.press    999    USDdatabase.guru    900    USDmesse.events   ... read more ...
Mon 16th November 2015
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Report: All Chinese Premium LLLL.org Domains Registered - I have received a report that all Chinese Premium four letter .org domain names have been registered. Chinese Premium domain names are those without a Vowel or the letter “v” According to registrarstats.com .Org had a net gain of over 12,000 domain registrations on Sunday which is a strong number for a Sunday but many of these were registered today as well. I’m also told that very few Western LLLL.org remain to be registered. For the record I did not register any of them.     ... read more ...