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.

Wed 3rd December 2014
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Report: TruckDrivingJobs.com Sold For $800,000 - According to a Press Release just out, Trucking Unlimited, an online recruiting firm for the trucking industry, announced the acquired  TruckDrivingJobs.com, a specialty online website focusing exclusively on truck driving jobs for $800,000. Truckdrivingjobs.com is as of today an active website but as recently as December of last year the domain name was parked, according to Screenshots.com and had the same owner so I’m not sure what to make of it According to the press release, Trucking Unlimited ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Wins .News Beating Out Amazon, Uniregisty, Radix & Famous Four - Donuts has won one of the top 10 new gTLD strings in our opinion, .News beating out among others,  Amazon, Uniregistry, Radix, Famous Four. PRIMER NIVEL S.A of Panama and Merchant Law Group LLP also had applications in on .News. In my opinion .News is a top 10 new gTLD extension as it goes with almost every word sort of like a .Club As always we don’t know what the string sold for. In my opinion I would  say i.News had to sell for more than $10 million and actually would be surprised if it sold ... read more ...
 
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Another No Trademark UDRP Thrown Out, Without Reverse Domain Name Hijacking - Another UDRP panel has thrown out a complainant against a company which recently registered a trademark matching a domain registered 7 years earlier without even considering a finding of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking. Never mind that the Complainant was Aponix Solutions LLC  of New York, which was represented by in-house counsel Rajkumar Bakhru,  could have just bought the domain name which was listed on Sedo with a Buy it now price of $6,000. Instead  the company elected to file a $1,500 UDRP ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines Pockets Another $4.4 Million & Has $45 Million In Cash - Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX), announce that “following the recent series of private auctions, the Company will receive in aggregate $4.4 million (approximately £2.8 million) for withdrawing its applications on .latino, .school and a third domain application that at present cannot be named due to the rules governing the private auction process. The cash to the Group is net of auction fees and includes refunds that the Company will receive from ICANN for withdrawing its applications. Cash ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Wins .School Beating Minds + Machines, Fegistry & Uniregistry - Donuts has won the new gTLD string .School beating out Minds + Machines, Jay Westerdal’s Fegistry and Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry. The new gTLD .School was scheduled to go to ICANN Last Resort Auction later this month. .School is an interesting one because there is a lot of vertical competition in the new gTLD space. Donuts already launched .education which has over 13,000 domain name registrations and .university which has over 2,200 domain name registrations. The  same company that operates ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Wins .Golf Beating Famous Four ,TLD Assets, & Jay Westerdal’s Fegistry - Donuts has won the new gTLD extension .Golf beating out Famous Four Media, TLD Assets which owns the new gTLD .Irish and  Jay Westerdal’s Fegistry. We reported eailer today that Donuts won the new gTLD .Football as well. The ICANN last resort auction for .Golf was scheduled to take place later this month. No details about how the string was settled or how much was paid is available. According to Donuts application “.GOLF will be very attractive to the many tens of thousands of golfers (professional ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Beats Famous Four Media To The New gTLD .Football - Donuts which lost the new gTLD  .Basketball yesterday, won the rights to .Football today. The only other applicant for .Football was Famous Four Media, which was also a losing applicant for .Basketball. .Football was scheduled to go to ICANN’s Last Resort Auction later this month According to its application Donuts: “.Football is a generic term and its second level names will be attractive to a variety of Internet users. .FOOTBALL will be attractive to the millions of enthusiasts worldwide who ... read more ...
 
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1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Paris 6,848 .Moscow 3,404; .Gal 1,140 - Three new gTLD’s had their first day of general availability yesterday, where domain names could be registered on a first come, first served basis. .Paris which only made 10,000 domain names available for registration wound up with 6,848 registrations, including those registration in Sunrise. .Moscow ended its first day of general availability with 3,404 domain names including those issued in Sunrise. Finally .Gal ended its first day of general availability with 1,140. .Gal has nothing to do with ... read more ...
 
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Australia Denies Apple’s Bid To Trademark “App Store” In Australia - Jenni Ryall reported for Mashable that Australia has said no go to Apple trademarking the term “App Store” in Australia. This latest ruling was an appeal of their 2013 trademark attempt. The judge did not see app store as distinguishing itself to be Apple centric. From the story: Apple can not exclusively use the term “app store” in Australia after a ruling in the Federal Court on Wednesday. Apple was appealing a 2013 decision by the Australian Registrar of Trade Marks, that rejected an ... read more ...
 
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Go Daddy Coupon Covered By CNET – Get Yourself a Cheap .Com - I thought it was interesting that CNET would spend some time in their deals section on a Go Daddy Coupon, and to top it off they make the headline a $1 .com when in reality it’s $1.67. But here is the deal so get yourself a cheap hand reg if you like. GoDaddy offers a new 1-year .com domain name registration for $1.49 via coupon code “SAS149COM”. An 18-cent ICANN fee applies. That’s the best deal we’ve seen for .com registration from GoDaddy since March, when we saw it for 99 cents. Some ... read more ...
Tue 2nd December 2014
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NameJet.com Reports $235K In Sales Led By Meixi.com For $27k -

Namejet.com usually sent us over the sales news for Nov for it’s reportable sales.

As customarily Namejet.com usually reports domain names that sell for $2,000 or more.

Here we go:

 

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Verisign: There Are Now 280 Million Domain Names; Up Over 7.2% From Last Year - Verisign published its Domain Industry Brief for the second quarter of 2014. As of June 30, 2014 there are now over 280 Million domain names across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of four million domain names, or 1.4% over the first quarter of 2014. Registrations have grown by 18.6 million, or 7.2 percent, year over year. The base of country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs) was 129.3 million domain names, a 1.7% increase quarter over quarter, and an 11.5% increase year over year. The .com ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Transactions Total $1.3 Million Led by ehaber.com For $45K - Over the past week, 509 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.3 Million 49% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · Top .coms: ehaber.com at 45,000 USD · Top ccTLD: tanzkurse.de at 8,925 EUR · Top “other” TLD: signup.net at 13,000 USD I like the acquisition of Heated.com for $4K   ... read more ...
 
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Can Verisign Maintain Its Leadership Moving Forward ? - Trefis is a financial analysis site, they describe themselves as an interactive financial community structured around trends, forecasts and insights related to some of the most popular stocks in the US.  They wrote about Verisign yesterday and whether or not they can maintain their growth. They note that .com has built such a niche that it has been able to stand the test of competition, in their estimation .net is not and they believe the new gtld program has affected .net in a negative way. From ... read more ...
 
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FIBA Wins .Basketball Beating Donuts & Famous Four - The Fédération Internationale de Basketball (FIBA) has won the new gTLD .Basketball. The two other applicants Donuts and Famous Four Media have withdrawn their applications with ICANN. .Basketball was scheduled to go to the ICANN last resort auction in December. Minds + Machines is the backend provider. This is from FIBA site: “FIBA, the International Basketball Federation, is the world governing body for basketball. Founded in 1932, we bring together 214 National Basketball Federations from ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Opens Comment Period For Its Move Out of US Control: Deadline Is Dec 22nd - ICANN has opened the comment period for the issue of the year, the transition of ICANN of key Internet domain name functions away from oversight control of the United States to the “global multistakeholder community.” “This draft transition proposal is the result of work by the Domain Name System (DNS3) community (the names community) to meet the requirements associated with this transition as defined by the IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group (ICG) “Following the request of the ... read more ...
 
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Tucows Ting Cell Service Rated Number 1 By Consumers Report - According to fool.com, Tucows.com (TCX)  owned Ting service was rated as as the top cellular phone carrier. “When it comes to what Consumer Reports refers to as traditional service — what others refer to as postpaid service — the top carrier is … Ting! “If you haven’t heard of the company before, there’s a reason for that: The service’s parent company, Tucows, is a domain name registrar and has made a business decision to not spend a lot on Ting-related advertising, instead choosing ... read more ...
 
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.Auction Sunrise Winds Up With Over 220 Registrations & Over 1/4 Are From Major League Baseball - .Auction which goes into general availability next Wednesday December 10th, Sunrise period just ended for trademark holders and wound up with 228 Sunrise registrations. Major League Baseball, including many of its member teams applied for a over 1/4 of all .Auction domain names. The NBA registered a few domain names and the NHL which we have seen register a lot of Sunrise domains in some extension applied for none. The NFL also passed on registering Sunrise domain names. The biggest missing company ... read more ...
 
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Are Ad Agencies and Marketing Professionals Proficient in a Domain Game ? - Dima Beitzke the chief sales officer at Sedo wrote a piece for iMediaconnection.com that asked if ad agencies and marketing professionals are equipped to play the domain game ? The article did not get much engagement with only 4 twitter shares and 2 fb likes, there were no comments. It would have been nice to see some interaction between those out there putting campaigns together, with someone who is the chief sales office for a top domain aftermarket site. From the article: Finding the right name ... read more ...
Mon 1st December 2014
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.Co.Com Namejet City Auction Closes With Over $22K In Sales Led By NYC.co.com For $4,245 - The .co.com city domain name auctions closed on Namejet.com late week and the total sales were $22,419. The domain name that sold for the highest amount was not surprisingly nyc.co.com which sold for 4,245.00 Newyorkcity.co.com sold for $1,109 Back in June the co.com registry released a list of premium domain names which can be found here: The registry tells me that many keyword domains remain available for hand-registration in .co.com as well which you can do at most of your favorite domain name ... read more ...
 
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Highest Reported.Mobi Domain Sale In Almost 5 Years: Olamobile Buys Ola.Mobi For $15k -         The domain name Ola.mobi just crossed the Sedo.com sales wire selling for $15,000. According to Estibot.com its the highest reported sale of a .Mobi domain in almost 5 years. The domain name Ola.mobi was purchased by Olamobile Cyprus Limited whose website is at olamobile.com. The last reported .mobi domain name to sell for more than Ola.Mobi, was P*ssy.mobi which sold for $23,619 back on 2010-01-28. There are just a handful of reported .mobi domain names that have sold in the five figures ... read more ...
 
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Frank Schilling Wins UDRP On TableForTwo.com; Complainant Didn’t Like The 89K Price - Frank Schilling’s Name Administration won a UDRP on the domain name TableforTwo.com who was defended as usual by John Berryhill. The complaint was brought by Julie Wampler of Washington, D.C. back on September 15th who runs a blog at TableForTwoBlog.com and got a trademark on the term TABLE FOR TWO on March 13, 2013. The Domain Name TableForTwo..com was registered on September 8, 2004. The Complainant argued that Name Administration’s asking $89,000 for the domain name was proof of  bad faith ... read more ...
 
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Econsultancy Takes A demeanour during either a new gtlds assistance we arrange aloft in search - Marcus Tober wrote an article this morning on Econsultancy.com about whether or not new gtlds help you rank higher in search ? I read econsultancy.com regularly so I as interested to see them covering the new gtlds. Marcus pointed to the fact that Google has categorically denied that there would be any rankings benefit from using the new domain extensions. He also notes the October 2012 EMD algorithm update that downgraded the positive impact that EMD’s had in ranking when the website quality ... read more ...
Sun 30th November 2014
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Invest.com Sells For Over $5 Million Dollars - According to the forexmagnates.com, the domain name Invest.com has been sold for more than $5 Million dollars to the VC firm Singulariteam headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel and will be used for a Forex trading site. Singulariteam, is described as being a “super angel investor”, and Moshe Hogeg’s,  its Managing Partner Chairman,  is also known for having invested $200,000 in the messaging app Yo!, and is the is the CEO and Founder of Mobli, a social mobile photo and video-sharing website ... read more ...
 
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How many new gtlds have we purebred in 2014 ? Nov check formula in - Our November poll question was, How Many New gTLDs Have you registered in 2014 ? We had 200 votes exactly and the most popular answer was zero. 78 out of the 200 responses stated they have registered no new gtlds in 2014. Of course this is not a huge sample size but it was still a bit higher than expected. 1-9 was the next most popular result with 54 people responding that they own 1 to 9 new gtlds. Thank you to everyone who participated. Full results of the poll: How Many New gTLDs Have you registered ... read more ...