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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.

Sat 29th November 2014
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Dot Club Releases “My Favorite Strings” The Holiday Song - The folks over at .Club in the spirit of the holiday season have created a .Club holiday song. Tis the season… to have some fun as well, so we put together a little jingle to celebrate some of our favorite new domain names.  From .dad to .directory, twenty-six of the new domain name extensions are mentioned in this Holiday ditty.  Is your favorite string mentioned? ... read more ...
 
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After 6 Years, AlJazeera Wins Contorol of Aljazeera.Tv -             AlJazeera Media Network of Doha, Qatar, was awarded the domain name Aljazeera.tv by a one member UDRP panel of Assen Alexiev The domain holder did not respond to the UDRP, nor did the domain seem to be in use in the 6+ years since it was registered. Here are the relevant facts and findings by the one member: The domain name Aljazeera.tv was registered over 6 years ago on January 22, 2008. The Complainant is the global media corporation broadcasted in Arabic well known as a new ... read more ...
Fri 28th November 2014
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New gTLD’s Pass 3.3 Million; .Club Passed 140K .NYC Tops 60K; .London Passes 50k - We haven’t done a update of the new gTLD program registrations in a while. According to nTLDStats.com the total number of new gTLD domain registrations just passed 3.3 million. .NYC has now passed 60,000 registrations and .London has now passed 50,000 registrations Rounding out the top 10 of all new gTLD’s .XYZ has the most registrations with  729,999. .Berlin has passed 154,000 registrations .Club which was one of the earliest contention sets settled by private auction has passed 140,000 registrations. .Realtor ... read more ...
 
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Someone Is Trying To Sell A Domain Still At Auction At Namejet.com -                               Earlier this month OnlineDomain.com, wrote about someone trying to sell the domain name iWire.com which they apparently won at a SnapNames.com but had not yet paid for. Today I got an email from someone that is trying to sell a domain name that is still in auction today at Namejet.com Here is the email: Hi – Noticed that you own CheapEurope.com. Would you be interested to buy Prague.co.com? I am willing to let it go at a fair price. Let me know. Regards Amelie Well ... read more ...
 
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Coffee.Club Launches: 40% Discount Black Friday-Cyber Monday & Free Membership To A Reader Of TheDomains -                 Coffee.club, a subscription-based coffee club that delivers among the freshest access to organic, launched its site today at Coffee.Club on Black Friday to appeal to the more than 54% of Americans who drink coffee on a daily basis. To celebrate the launch, in the tradition of Black Friday/Cyber Monday, Coffee.Club is be offering a special 40% discount on all orders placed between  Friday, November 28th through Monday, December 1st using the code “DotClub” at checkout. Moreover,  ... read more ...
 
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Grateful Ventures Launches Thanksgiving.com on Thanksgiving - Grateful Ventures, an online media and publishing company announced on Thanksgiving the launch of Thanksgiving.com. The holiday-themed website delivers a cornucopia of all things Thanksgiving, offering a blend of traditional and modern recipes, entertaining and décor, history, and fun. The daily operations of Thanksgiving.com are run by the Grateful Ventures team, including founder and Chief Executive Officer Kyle Cox (formerly the President and founder of SheKnows.com) and his team of executives. Kristin ... read more ...
Thu 27th November 2014
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How Online Retailers Are Using New gTLDs in their Holiday Marketing - Tucker Johns wrote an article on gtldstrategy.com, A FairWinds Blog about how new gtlds are affecting Black Friday marketing. Tucker gave mention to the new .blackfriday and .Christmas strings from Uniregistry and took a look at how the top 100 online retailers are using new gtlds. From the article: To check how the top 100 online retailers, as ranked by Internet Retailer, have adopted these new strings, FairWinds checked their brand names in both .BLACKFRIDAY and .CHRISTMAS and found some interesting ... read more ...
 
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Symantec Wins .SECURITY Over Donuts and Defender Security - Symantec Corporation (NASDAQ;SYMC) has won the rights to operate the new gTLD .Security beating Donuts and Defender Security. You might recall that Defender Security, filed Legal Rights Objections to all other applicants in .Home which was subsequently knocked out by domain collision. .Security was one of 11 new gTLD’s that are scheduled to be auctioned off in the ICANN Last Resort Auction in December. There will also be a new gTLD .Secure. According to its application here is what Symantec Corporation ... read more ...
 
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Firefox will shortly offer one-click buttons for all your hunt engines - Venture Beat posted a story about Firefox unveiling a one click button solution for all your search engines. In the future release, when you type a search term into the Firefox search box, you will get a list of reorganized search suggestions from the default search provider. Better yet, a new array of buttons below these suggestions will let you pick which search engine you want to send the query to. Courtesy of Venture Beat According to Venture Beat, Firefox is the only major browser that still ... read more ...
 
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The CEO Bookshelf - While you are enjoying your Thanksgiving and perhaps engaging in conversation outside of domaining, the conversation may turn to books. CEO.com and DOMO put together an infographic that highlights what business leaders are reading. ... read more ...
Wed 26th November 2014
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.Green Release Launch Time Table: Founders Program Closes Dec 1; GA Set For Mar 24, 2015 - The .Green registry released its launch time table for the new gTLD. The Founders Program is now open but only to December 1, 2014 “The Founders Program is Limited to Friends Supporters of DotGreen, and attendees of San Francisco Green Festival If your interested in acquiring a .Green Founders name you need to submit an application by December 1st, 2014″ The .Green Registry also laid out the rest of its launch schedule: Sunrise: Dec 8 – Feb 6, 2015 Registration is only available to trademark ... read more ...
 
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Berlin.co.com Sells For $1,109 on NameJet.com Leading 20 City .Co.Com Sales - The domain name Berlin.co.com sold for $1,109 on NameJet.com leading 20 city .Co.com domain names that were auctioned off on Namejet.com yesterday. Dubai.co.com was a close second selling for $1,009 The only other domain name of the 20 selling for four figures was Barcelona.co.com which sold for an even $1K. Four of the domain names sold for the $69 Minimum. The second round of .Co.Com City domain that are at auction at Namejet.com close today, including NYC, Paris, Rome, Rio,  LasVegas and Newyorkcity.co.com. The ... read more ...
 
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Uniregistry: .Click new gTLD Generated Over 10,000 Registrations In First 24 Hours - In a comment left by Frank Schilling on TheDomains.com, on our post about yesterday Uniregistry’s new gTLD first day totals, more than 10,000 domain names were registered in the first 24 hours. The stats we published earlier today were based on the last zone file update which usually cuts off at midnight,  which showed the first day total of general availability for .Click was some 3,800 domain names At 10,000 registrations .Click would become the 63rd most registered new gTLD domain name extension ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Transactions Total $1.2 Million; Rin.com & Everything.Org Sell For $35K; Show.Tv $20K - Over the past week, 566 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.2 Million 50% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · Top .coms: rin.com at 35,000 USD · Top ccTLD: show.tv at 20,999 EUR · Top “other” TLD: everything.org at 35,000 USD A few interesting sales: Another three letter .com, bmh.com sold for 25,990 Euro’s Drop.co sold for $17K, Printing.clud sold for $2,500 CrowdPay.com a pretty good domain sold ... read more ...
 
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MDon-line.com Loses UDRP Bid To Grab The Domain MDonline.com - MD On-line, Inc. of Parsippany, New Jersey, just lost its bid to grab the domain name mdonline.com through a UDRP. The Sole panelist was Christopher S. Gibson Complainant provides background that it was founded in 1995 as a health care technology company working closely with providers, payers and others in the health care industry to increase electronic healthcare transactions between respective groups using Complainant’s suite of products. Complainant registered the domain name mdon-line.com on ... read more ...
 
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Released From Collision Today: 120K .Host; 10k .Website & 5K .Press New gTLD Domains - Radix the registry for the new gTLD .Host, .Website and .Press is releasing 135,000 new gTLD domain names from that were on the ICANN collision  list today at 1400 UTC 20k .Host new gTLD domain names; 10k .Website domain names and 5k .Press domains will be released. All of these domains were held by by the registry Name Collision list will be released today at for registration Here is the entire list of domain names: Name Collision List for website, press and host If you haven’t read through one ... read more ...
 
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1st New gTLD Totals: .Click 3,779; .Help 1,908; .Property 1,490; .Hosting 1,197: .Diet 787 -

Five New gTLD of Uniregistry  launched into General Availability yesterday

Here are a initial day sum including Sunrise registrations.

None of these extensions had a Early Access Program or Landrush program:

.Click 3,779

.Help 1,908

.Property 1,490

.Hosting 1,197

.Diet 787

Via: thedomains.com

 
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A demeanour during Bitcoin/Crypto Related Domain Sales - CryptoNames.com is a site that specializes in domain names related to the Bitcoin/Crypto Currency Niche. They compiled a list of BitCoin, Crypto and Coin related sales. I have posted a partial list from each category. Check out the full list at CryptoNames.com. Bitcoin Related Bitcoin.com.au    $31,200    November 2014 BitcoinOption.com    $1,600    September 2014 BitcoinAnalysis.com    $X,XXX    September 2014 BTC.com    $1,000,000    August 2014 PriceOfBitcoin.com    $X,XXX    ... read more ...
Tue 25th November 2014
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Almost 20,000 .XYZ Collision Domains To Be Released On Dec 2nd: Here Is The List - On December 2, 2014 at 2pm (London Time), .XYZ will be releasing thousands of domain names to the public to register which were held back due to ICANN’s name collision list. The new domain name extension .XYZ, is the new gTLD’s with the most domain name registrations with over 725,000 according to ntldstats.com Almost 20,000 names were held back due to ICANN’s name collision list, and a large majority are being released. .XYZ just published a complete list of these domain names at  gen.xyz/collisionlist These ... read more ...
 
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Uniregistry Launches 5 New gTLD’s Today - Uniregistry is launching 5 new gTLD’s today the 25th of November 2014 at 16:00 UTC. .click which will have no reserved domains except for the 100 domains registered by the registry and domain names on the ICANN collision list .Click is priced at $5.99 at Godaddy The other four extensions of  Uniregistry  have quite a few reserved domains after I spent a few hours checking around for domain names yesterday. .hosting is priced at $23.99 at Godaddy.  There is already a .host and it has around ... read more ...
 
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Bitcoin.com.au sells for $31,200 as owners loses a domain due to bad registrant info - DnTrade.com.au and a few others have been buzzing about Bitcoin.com.au being auctioned off on Netfleet. Cazalla at Qntra.net wrote the best explanation of what happened, this was the second time Bitcoin.com.au sold this year. Apparently it is a popular tactic to report domains with bad info in Australia, the author explains, “Australian domainers employ in order to secure premium domains is to look for ones which contain outdated or expired registrant details before lodging a complaint with auDA.” From ... read more ...
 
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Symantec Discovers “Regin” A Sophisticated Piece of Malware - Symantec has discovered a piece of malware that has been used to spy on ISP’s and telecom companies that they say was most likely by a government agency. They did not say which government. The malware looks to have been created back in 2008, paused and then started back up. Recode wrote about the news: Computer security researchers at Symantec say they have discovered a sophisticated piece of malware circulating the world that appears to be used for spying at Internet service and telecommunications ... read more ...
Mon 24th November 2014
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UDRP Panel Throws Case Out But Doesn’t Find RDNH On Domain Registered 9 Years Before TM - Jobetty LLC, dba Mudpuppy’s Tub Scrub lost its attempt to grab the domain name mudpuppies.com The three member panel of Nathalie Dreyfus, Sandra J. Franklin and Diane Thilly Cabell basically threw the case out finding the Complainant’s trademark was filed some 9 years after the domain name was registered. However on the issue of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking the panel found: “Respondent submits that the Complainant has abused the UDRP proceeding by filing the claim and that “Reverse Domain ... read more ...
 
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Godaddy Is Back In The Super Bowl …..With A Puppy - GoDaddy announced today that it will be back advertising for its eleventh consecutive Super Bowl, in the 2015 Super Bowl with a thirty-second spot encouraging business owners to put their businesses online with a domain name and website. “For the first-time ever, GoDaddy will cast an adorable puppy to make its point about empowering business owners to succeed online, but don’t expect this to be a predictable commercial. “We are taking an advertising tradition — a tried-and-true Super Bowl ... read more ...
 
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Looks Like Craigslist Got Hacked -

In perplexing to get to Craigslist it looks like a site was hacked by Digital Gangster.

A You Tuber put adult a video display what happened. we am now removing only a timeout when we check on my laptop.

Via: thedomains.com