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.

Mon 17th November 2014
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Mike Mann Featured In Washington Post: DomainMarket Grosses $4M A Year - The Washington Post just published a post on legendary domain name investor Mike Mann, entitled “Domain-name mogul Mike Mann will sell you happybirthday.com — for $2 million” While this is far from the first press Mike has received,  its a very good article in which he reveals some information I personally didn’t know, such as that his DomainMarket.com “grosses around $4 million a year in domain name sales, but it spends $3 million alone in buying new names. After legal fees, payroll, ... read more ...
 
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Mobile.co.com & Movil.co.com Sell for $32K - The co.com LLC announced today that the premium domains names mobile.co.com and movil.co.com have been sold to the freelancing and mobile “micro jobbing” company, Mobile Inc. for $32K. Mobile.co.com was sold for $25K and Movil.co.com for $7K. Igloo.com represented co.com Registry as the broker on this sale. “We are very pleased to have an innovative company like Mobile Corporation acquire these domains names. Their interest in securing these premium .co.com domains, further validates the value ... read more ...
 
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SchoolLoans.com 1st Domain Name Sold For The CryptoCurrency Sync Coin - According to a press release we just received from the The Sync Foundation, the Domain-Backed CryptoCurrency has recorded  it first sale. The domain name SchoolLoans.com was sold in Private Transaction, a first for the organization which backs a cryptocurrency called Sync Coin with these domain assets. “We call it ‘Proof of Concept’,” says Sync Foundation co-founder Mike Fiol. “Premium domain names sell – it was simply a matter of patience and timing.” The name sold was SchoolLoans.com ... read more ...
 
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Godaddy Becomes 1st Domain Registrar To Top 500,000 New gTLD Registrations - According to ntldstats.com, Godaddy.com has become the first domain name registration to have registered more than 500,000 domain names. Godaddy has 500,091 new gTLD domain names under registration, 100,000 more than the second closest domain registrar, Network Solution which topped the 400,000 domain mark although around 377K of the 400,000 Network Solutions domain names were given to customers for for free. As of the last update there are now 3,161,685new gTLD domain names registered. Godaddy has ... read more ...
Sun 16th November 2014
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Tech Companies Want Senate To End NSA Collection Programs Before Republicans Take Control - Tech companies coming together to get the Senate to act to eliminate the NSA’s bulk data collection programs. Companies like Google and Microsoft etc… are worried about losing business around the world as foreign governments might fear that the U.S. government can gain easy access to the data of their citizens. With the change of power in the Senate there is a fear among tech leaders that this must be done now or it will not get done over the next Senate term. Of course Google just may feel like ... read more ...
 
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The Government of Quebec Ends Its Participation In The .Quebec Days Before The Extension Launches -     According to ici.radio-canada.ca, the Government of Quebec has decided to end  its participation in the new gTLD .Quebec,  just days before .Quebec launches. According to the story the Government has decided not to change Government websites to .Quebec and will instead retain all of its Website to end in  .gouv.qc.ca . The Government told the  The Canadian Press on Friday that the migrating of all the Governmental websites to  .Quebec would have cost $12 million of public funds and  ... read more ...
Fri 14th November 2014
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.Realtor: Is it The Best Example Of How Slow End User Adoption Of New gTLD May Be? - The National Association of Realtors launched .Realtor about 3 weeks ago on October 23rd To date there have been less than 85,000 .Realtor domain names registered. The good news is that the extension has by far the lowest rate of parked domains with just over 1% of all .Realtor domain names being parked.  According to ntldstats.com out of the 84,615 .Realtor domain names registered only 1,066 or 1.26% are “Parked” Now here is the bad news for the gTLD’s. According to the National Association ... read more ...
 
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PIR Operator Of .Org Reveals Its OnGood Campaign For The New gTLD’s .NGO & .ONG - Public Interest Registry, the not-for-profit operator of the .org extension, today unveiled “OnGood” – the new brand identity for the upcoming  .ngo .ong domain extensions along with their accompanying suite of services. Set to launch in early 2015, OnGood is an online community designed with and for NGOs and nonprofits worldwide, providing them with a suite of online services to help raise funds, build awareness and support for their missions. After conducting extensive research and in-person ... read more ...
Thu 13th November 2014
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More Details Emerge On New York’s Deal On .NYC: But 50K New Yorkers Did Not Register 50K Domains -                     According to a post on crainsnewyork.com,  the city of New York is making a “cool $40,000 a week on the Internet”. According to the story, the City of New York collects 40% of all domain registration fees collected by Neustar the operator of the .NYC registry. At a “cost of $20″ (which is unclear from the story if its retail or wholesale), “City Hall pulls in $8 every time a New Yorker buys a domain name that ends in .NYC.” “That math works out to $448,000 ... read more ...
 
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Nat Cohen’s Telepathy Files Federal Lawsuit Over The Domain SDT.com - Domain investor Nat Cohen’s Telepathy, Inc. just filed a federal lawsuit against SDT INTERNATIONAL of Brussels, Belgium, over the domain name SDT.com after it rejected a $400 offer that got worked up all the way to $1,000. Actually the Brussels company filed a UDRP with WIPOUDRP with the case number D2014-1870. Mr. Cohen is represented by David Weslow, Esq, and decided to take the case to federal court rather than wait for a UDRP panel to decide its fate. The action “seeks actual and/or statutory ... read more ...
 
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Archeo Publishes 3Q Sales Stats - According to the Small Business Association, there are roughly 28 million small businesses in the U.S. Many of which are working extra hard to compete with bigger businesses and stand out among the competition. Of those 28 million small businesses, an astounding 22 million (79%) are self-employed with no additional employees on the payroll. Whether you’re running a business solo or you have a team of employees, it can be a challenge to gain brand awareness. This is especially the case if like most ... read more ...
 
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SnapNames.com End of Year Auction Closes Today: Won.com $90K Bid; Hi.Net $25K - The SnapNames.com End of Year domain name auction closes today at 3:15 EST under snapnames normal closing rules. There are 179 domain names in the auction. As of publication 17 of the 179 domain names have a bid. The domain name Won.com leads all bids with $90,000 however is still below the reserve range of $100,000-$250,000 Hi.net has the next highest bid at $25,000 but also has not hit reserve which is between $25K-$50K Here are all the domain names in the auction with the current bids as of publication:     Domain ... read more ...
 
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Symantec Withdraws their Uncontested Application for New gTLD .AntiVirus - Symantec Corporation has withdrawn their uncontested application for the new gTLD .Antivirus after saying it would become one of their “core assets” in their application. From its application it appears Symantic wanted to operate the extension on a closed basis. The Government Advisory Counsel (GAC) to ICANN objected to generic strings from being operated on a closed basis forcing most who had applied to operate on a closed basis to open them up to outside registrations. Here is part of the application: “Symantec ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Clears a Way for Two-character New gTLD Domain Names - ICANN reported last night that it has Cleared the way for Two Character New gTLD domain names, domain names like NN.whatever, NL.whatever or LN.whatever. The jury is still out of two letter new gTLD’s “After reviewing the summary and analysis of the first batch of Public Comments, the ICANN Board passed Resolution 2014.10.16.14 on 7 November 2014 directing ICANN staff to “develop and implement an efficient procedure for the release of two-character domains currently required to be reserved ... read more ...
 
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After Hand Registering Its Domain For $10, Quandl Raises $5.4 Million - The Wall Street Journal just covered the story of a startup Quandl.com which has 30,000 registered users, and just raised $5.4 million to expand. The story goes on to note that one of the co-founders of the company in 2010, Tammer Kammer is quoted as saying: “My eureka moment came when I thought how is it that in 2010 all human knowledge is consolidated on Wikipedia and quantitative knowledge is a huge mess?’” he said. “He bought a Web domain for $10, hacked together a prototype website and ... read more ...
 
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1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Melbourne 2,518: .Restaurant 2,389; .Gifts 1,010; .Sarl 176 - 4 new gTLD entered General Availability (GA) yesterday (.Melbourne was on Tuesday local time) and including all Sunrise domain name registrations by trademark holdersm and all registrations under the landrush in the case of .Melbourne and the Early Access Program for those willing to pay an additional amount to get early access to a domain name here are the totals after the 1st day of GA: .Melbourne 2,518 .Restaurant 2,389 .Gifts 1,010 .Sarl 176 We should note that Uniregistry launched ;Gift a while ... read more ...
Wed 12th November 2014
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Tucows Reports & Plans Repurchase $8 Million in Shares - Tucows (NASDAQ:TCX, TSX:TC) reported earnings for the third quarter of 2014 after the market closed. Net revenue for the third quarter of 2014 increased 9% to $38.9 million from $35.6 million for the third quarter of 2013. Net income for the third quarter of 2014 was $2.7 million, or $0.24 per share, compared with $2.6 million, or $0.24 per share, for the third quarter of 2013. Net income for both the third quarters of 2013 and 2014 included the contribution of confidential arrangements related ... read more ...
 
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Afnic Study Looks At Who Are The New G’s Affecting Most ? - Afnic.fr the registry for domain names in .fr put out a study that took a look at how is the proliferation of new gtlds affecting the existing gtld and cctlds that have been around for many years. The study broke extensions into 3 separate categories: The three main categories are: nTLDs: TLDs created since the end of 2013 and introduced to the market as of the onset of 2014; as of September 2014, there were 408 nTLDs; gTLDs or “legacy TLDs”: all 18 of them are generic TLDs created between 1985 ... read more ...
 
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1-800Flowers Gets Birthday.gifts, Anniversary.gifts, Flowers.gifts, Mothersday.gifts, Valentines.gifts - Today two new gTLD’s from Donuts go into General Availability today .Gifts and .Restaurant. Both of the strings have around 330 domain name registered in the Sunrise period for “trademark holders” and the Early Access program where people paid an extra fee for early access. When it comes to gifts, except for the domain names that were reserved or on the ICANN collision list, the very best domain names are gone and most of them to 1-800FLOWERS.com under those “trademarks” Check out this ... read more ...
 
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Internet.bs Releasing 9.5 Million Available .Com Registered in Other Extensions - Here is the list of new gTLD sites that are in top 100,000 Alexa list as of yesterday. There are just 102 of them. I know that Alexa is not very accurate but it still is an indicator for sites within the top 100,000. These daily updated Alexa ranks are based on monthly averages and is slightly different from the toolbar rank (which is averaged over 3 months). “searchengines.guru”,”1067″ “thefappening.sexy”,”4227″ “archive.today”,”4330″ “kickasstorrent.link”,”9430″ “ddlvalley.rocks”,”11993″ “sourcephoenix.rocks”,”13125″ “friv.today”,”13800″ “kodi.wiki”,”17078″ “thefappening.rocks”,”17191″ “archive.moe”,”22207″ “webs.directory”,”22296″ “blackhat.community”,”23114″ “gen.xyz”,”24035″ “proxybay.xyz”,”26996″ “www.google”,”27419″ “rokettube.xyz”,”27560″ “sorozatbarat.ninja”,”28204″ “sozai.club”,”28269″ “msnbc.website”,”28709″ “torrentdownload.link”,”29300″ “thedudes.club”,”30249″ “c2d.ink”,”30784″ “2121.club”,”32294″ “womenslife.today”,”32514″ “riw.moscow”,”33504″ “poe.trade”,”33933″ “gunahsehri.club”,”34159″ “tema.ninja”,”34414″ “giveaways.club”,”34583″ “themoney.expert”,”35484″ “maturetube.sexy”,”36502″ “ait-themes.club”,”38048″ “you-tube.club”,”38617″ “just-like.club”,”40910″ “trendy.social”,”41848″ “claim.realtor”,”44054″ “viralcamp.club”,”45239″ “hackintosh.zone”,”46852″ “gaytube.sexy”,”46915″ “youtubetrends.red”,”48180″ “playbuzz.club”,”49519″ “bokepdo.club”,”50826″ “besser-einkaufen.tips”,”51664″ “lelivros.club”,”52333″ “smartlife.tips”,”52686″ “naiz.eus”,”52815″ “buy.ooo”,”53085″ “mp3s.xyz”,”53155″ “3d-print.today”,”54115″ “khmernews.today”,”54262″ “pressa.today”,”54346″ “kashin.guru”,”54481″ “youtubemp3.club”,”55581″ “warriors.tips”,”55865″ “telly.desi”,”57131″ “onlinehealth.wiki”,”59312″ “viral-videos.xyz”,”59963″ “okshare.xyz”,”61372″ “magesy.xyz”,”61627″ “richinvest.club”,”61720″ “duc.link”,”61963″ “pinayaqq.xyz”,”64047″ “ebookss.xyz”,”65701″ “winnet.club”,”68363″ “designhomes.pics”,”68462″ “bonddot.investments”,”68984″ “asiantube.sexy”,”70241″ “word.photos”,”71199″ “pcdrivers.guru”,”74975″ “mix.tokyo”,”75476″ “pcerror.support”,”75637″ “amk.cool”,”77129″ “songspk.cab”,”77419″ “artsex.sexy”,”78458″ “thefappening.social”,”78650″ “dnr.today”,”80175″ “mirror.ninja”,”80631″ “millionairefactory.cash”,”80762″ “toureiffel.paris”,”82282″ “fens.xyz”,”82925″ “www.youtube”,”83110″ “smartmovies.club”,”83195″ “desilink.website”,”83247″ “coolgallery.pics”,”83916″ “blackhat.guru”,”84214″ “hidown.xyz”,”85411″ “thesims.club”,”86809″ “1000.menu”,”89305″ “sav.support”,”91833″ “woodbook.xyz”,”92083″ “lesbiantube.sexy”,”92149″ “tribo.marketing”,”92270″ “see.place”,”92769″ “comparing.guru”,”92770″ “absolutely.club”,”93288″ “jpon.xyz”,”93765″ “fashionand.clothing”,”94292″ “jaja.club”,”94349″ “freesite.host”,”94926″ “artistintelligence.agency”,”95810″ “kat.works”,”96185″ “порно-видео.онлайн”,”96752″ ... read more ...
Tue 11th November 2014
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Dish Networks Beats Out Minds + Machines For The New gTLD .Latino - Another new gTLD that was schuduled to go to the ICANN Last Resort Auction next week had been settled privately. Minds + Machines has withdrawn its application for the new gTLD .Latino leaving Dish Network as the sole applicant. Minds + Machines put out a press release last week about how they made over 8.4 Million dollars losing 5 new gTLD auctions; book, .cloud, .dog, .site, and .style. However it looks like M + M just made a little more. .Latino will join .Uno and Googles’ .Soy which specially ... read more ...
 
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.NYC Domain Helps UCONN Basketball Troll Syracuse - The Sporting News reported that Syracuse.nyc was registered by Tyler Wilkinson and Peter Bard at A Dime Back, a UConn-centric blog. UConn is one of the best Basketball teams in the Country and a rival to New York State based Syracuse. The domain name Syracuse.nyc is now being used to promote UConn while simultaneously trolling Syracuse fans. Now Syracuse.nyc directs people to a wesbite that hails the Huskies as “New York’s College Team” while flashing photos of UConn’s championship team ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Domain Transactions Total $1.1 Led By EasyBet.com For 35K Euro’s - Over the past week, 572 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.1 Million Dollars 50% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · Top .coms: easybet.com at 35,000 EUR · Top ccTLD: shudder.tv at 10,000 USD · Top “other” TLD: penguin.club at 8,000 USD Topping all new gTLD’s were the sale of Penguin.club at $8K, Next.club for $4,500 and Beta.club for $1,500 Here are the public sales:   ... read more ...
 
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Former CEO Of Vegas.com Releasing “Revolutionary Global Booking Platform” On New gTLD’s - Howard Lefkowitz, the former CEO of Vegas.com, announced today that his new company, One Degree World™ Systems, Inc., which describes itself as “architects and owners of a revolutionary global content and booking platform, will be the first company of its kind to launch a series of holistic hospitality and travel websites on the emerging top-level domains (TLDs) other than .com. ” One Degree also announced it will manage over 1,000 .Vegas domain names, over 300 .Buzz domain names and an undisclosed ... read more ...
 
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Google Withdraws Another New gTLD Application: .Earth Won By Interlink Co., Ltd - Google has given up on another new gTLD extension. Just hitting ICANN’s site today, Google has withdrawn its application for .Earth The remaining applicant is Interlink Co., Ltd. of Japan also known as Urban Brain. The new gTLD was set to go to auction later this month. According to its application Interlink Co., Ltd. (Interlink) envisions that the “.earth” top-level domain (TLD) will become a symbol of worldwide unity on the Internet. By registering a second-level domain in the “.earth” ... read more ...