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 16th November 2015
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Drug Giant Merck Buys DogFlu.com: Had a BIN Price of $19K - The drug giant Merck just bought the domain name DogFlu.com. The domain name was listed in Afternic.com with a Buy It Now price of $19,000. The domain was owned by Frank Schilling’s Name Administration according to the whois as recently as May 2015, when it switched over to privacy in August. The domain had an Estibot.com appraised value of $16,000. There is an outbreak of Dog Flu in the United States which started getting reported on in June of this year. The CDC has a website dedicated to the ... read more ...
Fri 13th November 2015
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Franks Schilling Sells 2,000 4 Letter .com for $3 Million Dollars - Frank Schilling just announced he has sold over 2,000 4 letter .com domain names for $3 million dollars Frank also announced that all 4 letter domain names in .link and .click have sold out at the registry level ” All 4 and 5 number combinations in link and click are about to be sold or sold out” All 6 numbers in link and click are pending sale.” “All 4 letter domain names in link and click are about to be sold out or sold out. All 5 number combinations in link and click are about to be ... read more ...
 
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Rick Schwartz Sells 4 Domains For Over $1.325M & Breaks Record (Again) For 4 Number .Com - Rick Schwartz added to his most amazing year, selling four more domain names this week for just over $1.325 million dollars. Rick, who is known as the Domain King, keeps showing why he owns that title. Included in this week’s sales is 6565.com which set another record for a 4 number .Com domain name. Rick sold 9595.com for $180,000 in July, which at the time set a record for the highest amount paid for a 4 number .Com domain name (NNNN.com) The sale of 6565.com, which Rick sold early this week, ... read more ...
 
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Stats Spin? .London Renewal At 75.4% For Sunrise, Landrush & 1st Day Domains - The .London registry along with Minds + Machines (LSE:MMX)) announced today that the renewal rates for .London domain names “exceeded expectations by reaching 75.4%.” However that “renewal rate is for a total of 38,389 names applied for during the Dot London combined Sunrise and Landrush period as well as the first day of General Availability, registered between August 19th and September 9th 2014.” All domain renewals have passed their grace periods.” Domain names acquired in Sunrise are ... read more ...
 
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DomainPros Buys 260 Five Digit Domains For $1M; $3,850 Per - DomainPros.com announced today that it just acquired 260 five number domain names (NNNNN.com) for $1,000,000 That works out to just over $3,800 per domain name. “Most of those 260 domains originally belonged to Marchex’s portfolio of 5 digit domains” which Godaddy bought from Marchex. Back in April we announced that Godaddy paid $26.2 Million dollars for Marchex’s portfolio of over 200,000 domain names, however its not clear if Godaddy still owned the domain names that DomainPros.com acquired. 62.com ... read more ...
 
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Remember that behest fight for 66.biz ? Owner got his genuine universe estimation and eliminated out - I have talked many times about people playing the real world appraisal game, they let the domain name complete auction at Go Daddy and then get the auth code and transfer out. Not everyone knows that you can transfer out, so many believe that someone would not pay $80 for this real world appraisal, most don’t pay $80 and redeem at Go Daddy, they transfer out to another registrar for $8. So there was a lot of excitement about 66.biz and the bidding war taking place, the name closed at $69,000, but ... read more ...
Thu 12th November 2015
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Reverse Domain Hijacking Found On 21 Year Old TPP.com Owned by Thomson Reuters - A three member UDRP panel found that “The Preferred Prepaid, Inc. d/b/a TPP represented by Clifford D. Hyra, of Virginia, engaged in Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) in attempting to grab the three letter domain name TPP.com which was registered in 1994 by Thomson Reuters. The three member panel of The Honourable Neil Anthony Brown QC, Clive Elliott, QC and Darryl C. Wilson found the facts of this case “present overwhelming evidence that Complainant has engaged in reverse domain name hijacking”. Here ... read more ...
 
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Worldtrademarkreview.com: New gTLD's .Law & .Legal not Getting Much Love - According to the Wordldtrademarkreview.com,  the new gTLD space for lawyers which highlights .Legal, which  is unrestricted and .Law which is heavily restricted have gotten off to a very slow start. “An analysis of take-up within the two most relevant new gTLDs – ‘.law’ and ‘.legal’ – suggests that law firms are taking a tentative approach to their new gTLD registration strategies, with only a quarter of the sample we studied registering the equivalent of their key domain name in ... read more ...
Wed 11th November 2015
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Sedo Holding a Three Number .Club Auction At No Reserve - Sedo.com is holding an auction of premium three numbered .club domain names (NNN.club) at no reserve starting tomorrow. All 3 number .club domains have been registered and as of yesterday all 4 number .club domain have been registered as well. The auction starts tomorrow and ends in November 19th at  11:00 EST in accordance with Sedo’s closing rules. Some of the domain name that popped out to me were; 111.club, 288.club, 555.club, 666.club, 818.club 899.club and 711.club (don’t park it) Here ... read more ...
 
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First .Auto Domain: Kain Automotive Switches From KainAutomotive.Com To Kain.Auto - Kain Automotive has changed their domain name from KainAutomotive.com to the new gTLD Kain.Auto becoming one of the first registrants of the new gTLD .auto. The domain name KainAutomotive.com is now being forwarded to the new gTLD Kain.Auto The domain name Kain.auto was created on November 3. According to their site Kain Automotive was Established in 2003 by “David Kain as a way to assist Automotive Dealers and Automotive Manufacturers with developing effective and progressive Internet Sales Operations David ... read more ...
 
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Report: Maharaja.co.uk Sells for $114,000 - According to a story out today the a catering company in London English, Maharaja London paid £75,000 for domain name – maharaja.co.uk which is around $114,000 based on today’s exchange rates. Maharaja according to the story means ‘high ruler’ or ‘king’. ‘With having an online presence being so important for our growth plans this will really help turn Maharaja into a widely celebrated brand’ claims a company spokesman.” According to the story there were three other companies bidding ... read more ...
Tue 10th November 2015
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Verisign Trending Keywords For Oct Include TM of Nike - Verisign(VRSN)  just published it’s  trending keywords for domain names registered in .com and .net in October The term “Ok ” is the number one .Com trending term, which is pretty strange. Words on  the trending list for .com  include; walk, blab, sold It’s pretty early for Christmas, but it’s never to early for marijuana. On the .Net list I don’t know who is registering all those domains with Nike in them but its unusual to see a trademarked terms on the top 10 list With that said, ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $1.3million led by DCR.com during $42,000 - Over the past week, 788 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.3m. 61% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.    Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: dcr.com at 42,000 USD Top ccTLD: x.de at 40,000 USD Top “other” TLD: jrr.org at 9,888 USD New Gtld sales: messe.online    1,499    EUR service.marketing    1,295    USD skat.online    700    EUR Strong week for three letter .nets, seems to be a pick up over the last couple ... read more ...
 
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17 Year Old Areas.com Lost in UDRP: Failure to Respond a UDRP Evidence of Bad Faith - The 17 year old domain name Areas.com was just lost in a very short UDRP decision in which the domain holder did not even file a formal response. For all you domain investors that ask why even spend the money to properly defend a UDRP, The Panel found that “failure to respond the Complaint can be evidence of bad faith” in and of itself. That is why if you have a valuable domain you need to hire an experienced attorney in UDRP matters and ask for a three member panel. Esitbot.com values the domain ... read more ...
 
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Five Number Domain Lost in UDRP - With the craziness around numbered domain names it worth noting that the domain name 11315.so was just lost in a UDRP decision handed down by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) proving that even numbered domain names are not exempt from UDRP attack. Here are the highlights: The complainant was founded in 2001 and in 2002 entered the credit industry, to create a “11315 Credit Services” logo, and for the credit business activities. Respondent disputed domain name 11315.so on July ... read more ...
 
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Listed On Sedo: 8888888888.com $190K; 8888888888888.com for $88,888 - I was looking through Sedo’s recently announced numeric search engine and found a few interesting listings The domain name 8888888888.com (that is 10 number 8’s) for  $190K; 8888888888888.com (that is 13 number 8’s) for $88,888 88.club is listed for $60,000 88872.com is listed for $24,000 52188.com is listed for $23,000 868888888.com is listed for 9,999 GBP which is about $15K. 888888.net is listed for $66,000 and has a bid of $6K. There are plenty more numeric domains for sale on Sedo in ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Adds Numeric Domain Search: 10% Of the Sales Last week Were Number Domains - Sedo.com just announced they integrated  a new search feature that only shows numeric domain names in the search results.” “This is valuable for all Sedo customers but will especially impact our Chinese customers whose interest in numeric domains continue to grow at a rapid rate.” “Throughout 2015, sales for numeric domains, such as 7384.com or 17117.com, have increased exponentially, particularly with buyers from China. In the last week of October, more than 10% of Sedo’s sales were ... read more ...
 
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CentralNic Passes 2 Million Registrations of New gTLD - CentralNic Group PLC has over 2.0 million domains registered using its platform representing 21% of all new gTLD domain names. Of the 2+ million new gTLD registered through CentralNic 1,552,903 are .XYZ domain names.  The only other extension using CentralNic that has 100,000+  is .website, although .online is quickly approaching with just about 95,000 domain names. CentralNic passed Rightside (NAME), which not only has its own new gTLD extensions as a registry but also performs the back end provider ... read more ...
Mon 9th November 2015
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I'M Calling It: The New Wholesale On Chinese LLL.com Is Around $50K - The new wholesale value of a Chinese three letter .Com domain name (LLL.com) is now $50,000. Having over 100 LLL.com,  58 of them which are those Favorited by Chinese domain investors, without vowels or the letter “v’ opens me up to a numerous offers all day long which I recently wrote about. When I talk about wholesale offers I’m talking about unsolicited email offers from investors and brokers who appear to live in China and are willing to buy a domain today in what is a very liquid market. Certainly ... read more ...
 
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11 Year Old BrooklynBeer.com Saved In UDRP By Company Who Filed 7 UDRP's - Larry Fischer just defended a UDRP on the domain name BrooklynBeer.com, which may not seem as first as a big deal but consider this is just one of 7 UDRP filed by The Brooklyn Brewery Corporation and the only one they lost. Of the other 6 UDRP filed by The Brooklyn Brewery Corporation, they won 2 (brooklynbrews.com, brooklynale.com) and got three others when the owners transferred them after receiving the UDRP (brooklynbeers.com, brooklynpilsner.com and brooklynlager.com).  There is one UDRP pending ... read more ...
 
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If You're In NYC Today You Should Check Out "CoInvent Plus" Conference - CoInvent Pulse is a business technology festival that’s scheduled to take place in today in New York City . This event will be featuring 150 exhibitors and an array of business workshops. It’s estimated to be one of the largest technology gatherings with thousands of attendees. The mission of the conference is to help founders, startups, and entrepreneurs grow and thrive in the New York tech and startup ecosystem. There are expected to be around 8,000 people at the conference and many workshops ... read more ...
Sun 8th November 2015
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Farmers Bank & Trust Switches From .Com To .Bank Domain - Farmers Bank Trust which has branches in Arkansas and Texas and approximately $1.2 billion in assets has changed its domain name from .com to a .bank Farmers Bank which was using myfbtbank.com at it’s website has switched to  myfarmers.bank. At this time, visitors can still access the Farmers Bank Trust website through the old web address, myfbtbank.com. The bank encourages frequent visitors to change their bookmarks to the new, more secure myfarmers.bank to optimize secure banking. Farmers ... read more ...
 
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Domain Registration At a Record Pace 460,000, Yesterday - The huge surge in daily domain name registrations continued yesterday as over 460,000 domain names were registered across all Top Level Domains (excluding ccTLD). Traditionally the number of domain name registrations slow on the weekend, to the point where it’s not unusual to see the number of  .Com deleted,  exceed the number of new registrations for the day, leading to a negative number. Well not yesterday. The total number of new domain registrations Saturday was over 460,000. .Com had over ... read more ...
Sat 7th November 2015
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RightoftheDot/ 4.CN Auction Sells Over $871K in Domains - The RightoftheDot.com domain name auction on the 4.cn platform as part of the Domainfest.asia conference generated over $871,000 in sales. All sales were led by a three number .com, 586.com which sold for $416,000 The two next highest sales, zhou.com and 8.xyz were both listed at no reserve. Several of the domain name sales occurred, as they often do after the domain auction concluded which is why it took RightoftheDot.com some time to wind up the auction and first publish the results. To note, the ... read more ...
Fri 6th November 2015
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Last Call: 6 Number .Com's: Less than 8K Left Out of 1 Million - If you’re considering registering any 6 number Ccom domains (NNNNNN.com) I’m going calling “Last Call’. As of publication less than 8,000 NNNNNN.com remain available for registration. The possible number of 6 numbered .com domains is 1,000,000 including the dreaded number 4 and zero. We would expect all of these domain name to be registered by the end of the weekend. There is a huge run on numbered and Letter domains in .com, .net, .xyz, .top and .win over the last couple of months. .Com, ... read more ...