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 24th September 2014
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Minds + Machines Wins .Law & .Vip; Loses 5 Auctions & Pockets $6.2 Million -     Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX), announce today that it won the new gTLD auctions for the new domain name extensions .Law and .Vip and lost private auctions for .Design, .Flowers, .Group, .Realestate and .Video and pocketed approximately $6.2 million (£3.8 million). The net cash to the Minds + Machines includes the amounts paid for .Vip and .Law, and is also net of auction fees and refunds that the Company received from ICANN for withdrawing applications. The Company also participated ... read more ...
Tue 23rd September 2014
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Sedo Transactions Total $1 Million -

Over a past week, 591 exchange took place on Sedo’s marketplace and around SedoMLS, totaling $1 Million dollars

48% of sum sales were a outcome of Buy Now listings.

Highlights of open sales are:

· Top .coms: cabs.com during 50,000 USD
· Top ccTLD: kfz24.de during 11,500 EUR
· Top “other” TLD: uhr.kaufen during 4,200 EUR

 

Via: thedomains.com

 
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Report: 1,500 .Scot Domain Registered In 1st 60 Seconds; Over 4K Registered in First Hour - More than 1,500 .Scot domain names were registered by members of the public within 60 seconds of the new gTLD launch and over 4,000 were registered in the first hour of the domain becoming available according to a report in thecourier.co.uk. Jesus.scot and Oor Wullie.scot,  Braveheart.scot, the45percent.scot, Cocacola.scot and Facebook.scot. One customer registered 20 different .scot domains. Not-for-profit company Dot Scot Registry was created to apply for and operate the .scot domain. The price ... read more ...
 
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.RICH & .ONL To Have Its Own Retail Registrar Site To Be Powered By LogicBoxes -           LogicBoxes is pleased to announce the partnership with I-Content Ltd., based out of Germany, to initiate the implementation of end-to-end Vertical Integration Solution for New gTLDs .RICH and .ONL. .RICH is a New gTLD extension that caters to a global community of high net worth individuals and the companies that support them. .ONL (the official abbreviation for “online”) is a New gTLD that intends to provide limitless access to everything online by being a natural domain for ... read more ...
 
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Godaddy 15%+ .LONDON domains purebred outward of a UK; US & Germany Are 8% - According to a press release from Godaddy over 15% of .LONDON domains that were registered through GoDaddy came from outside of the UK. 5.9% of all .London domains registered by Godaddy were registered by people in the United States and 1.9 percent were registered by people or businesses in Germany. Stefano Maruzzi, VP of GoDaddy EMEA, says: “These figures show that London is one of the most attractive cities to businesses worldwide. Since the general availability launch on Tuesday Ninth September, ... read more ...
 
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Registry Of New gTLD .OOO Predicts 35,000 Sunrise Domains & 1-2 Million Registrations In 6-12 Months - The Registry for the new gTLD ‘.ooo’ (Dot-Triple Letter O) by Ahmedabad-based IT firm Infibeam.com which “is aimed at providing alternate domain registration solutions to those who have failed to locate their brand name or business names on .com domain, has some pretty lofty goals for the extension. The registry is predicting 35,000-40,000 trademark registrations and over the next 6-12 months expects to get about 1-2 million domain registrations “The new GTLD is the first of a kind initiative ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Beats Amazon To .Video & Wins .Money, .Sale, & .Legal In Private Auctions - In a set of private new gTLD auctions held last week Donuts has won at least 4 of them, beating out Amazon Uniregistry, Minds + Machines for the new gTLD .Video (Google did not apply for .Video, but did apply for .Tube). We should also note their was no new gTLD application submitted for .Videos.  If Amazon, Uniregistry or Minds + Machines had applied for the plural .Videos, which arguably is a better string instead of .Video, they would have won it for just the $185,000 application fee. All three ... read more ...
 
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CentralNic Issues Interim Results For 6 Months Ending Jun 30, 2014 - CentralNic (AIM: CNIC), today announces its interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2014. Key Points: · CentralNic has seen steady growth in its wholesale (“Registry”) business, against a background of delays in new Top-Level Domains (TLDs) and early demand levels across the industry falling short of industry expectations. · CentralNic has continued investment in the development of new retail and enterprise business lines, as outlined in the 2013 Annual Report. · Group revenue £1.64 ... read more ...
 
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ICANN: Looks Like 2nd Round Of New gTLD Won’t Open For At Least 4 Years - ICANN released tonight a 27 page report entitled the “New gTLD Program Reviews and Assessments Draft Work Plan” (Draft Work Plan) which lays out the work required prior to initiating a subsequent application period for the New gTLD Program, taking into account the assessments anticipated in development of the Program.” “As of this writing, 404 new gTLDs have been delegated. A total of 1,168 applicants have been invited to contracting. Of those applications in string contention sets, 49% ... read more ...
Mon 22nd September 2014
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Technical.ly: “Meet Mike Mann DC’s Pioneering Domain Squatter”: “I Practically Started a Industry - Technical.ly, just covered ledgency domain investor Mike Mann In a story entitled “Meet Mike Mann DC’s Pioneering Domain Squatter” Its the second non-domainer publication today to cover a domain investor (click here to read the other one) “Before him, there was cybersquatting. Now, there is domain speculation.” “When the business went mainstream, driving up the competition, he developed a new technology to make domain searches more efficient called WhoisPlus/NameFind. After a lot of hard ... read more ...
 
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Domain Investor Prakhar Bindal Featured: How To Make Millions Trading Domains” - Thehindubusinessline.com, just published a story entitled “How To Make Millions Trading Domains. The story features Domain Investor Prakhar Bindal which must have come out of the recent domain conferences held in India. “”It is not just bullion and shares that can be traded to make millions. Now, trading Internet domain names is becoming big business. “Take the example of Prakhar Bindal, who founded a company called Axsiom to act as an exchange for trading domain names. \ “Bindal bought ... read more ...
 
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HuntingMoon’s Auction Is Live: 675 Domains: Adult, Dating, Gambling & New gTLD’s - HuntingMoon.com is holding an online auction of over 675 domain names including in conjunction with the Webmaster Access conference which is being held in Amsterdam. The auction ends Oct 1, 2014 in staggered fashion starting around 4PM EST/1PM PST There are also couple of small portfolios and two businesses for sale. While the domain auction has a high percentage of adult, dating and gambling domains there are some non-adult domains like StockFutures.com The auction also features a number of registry ... read more ...
 
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SeekingAlpha: Even After Its Stock Dropped 45% Last Week Marchex Is Still Overvalued - SeekingAlpha.com just covered Marchex and noted even though shares were down 45% last week and is down over 66% since July since July its still overvalued. The post was written by Ariana Research: “On September 18th, 2014, Marchex Inc. (NASDAQ:MCHX) (“Marchex”, “MCHX”, or the “Company”) released an 8K, which subsequently resulted in a decline in the equity value of ~45% for the day, or ~66% since the short was originally recommended this past July. Although the business is most likely ... read more ...
 
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Accent Media Limited Win Private Auction For .Tickets Beating Donuts, Famous Four, 2 Others - According to a press release we received overnight, a British company, Accent Media Limited, won the private auction for the new gTLD .Tickets beating Donuts, Famous Four Media, Shubert Internet, Inc., and Afilias. According to the PR, “The company will offer domain names to approved organisations to provide safer online ticket sales with the intention to establish the “.tickets” top-level domain as a global gold standard of trust for consumers. According to a separate press release by publicly ... read more ...
Sun 21st September 2014
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Verisign Ranked #1 By Z-Score Which Predicts Companies Heading Into Serious Financial Distress” - USA Today.com, just covered something called The Altman Z-Score ” a financial indicator that predicts when companies are careening toward serious financial distress, which the article says  is commonly used by investment professionals. “The Z-Score is a single number that summarizes the financial strength of companies in five dimensions. ” “The Z-Score examines companies by sizing up working capital, retained earnings, earnings before interest and taxes to total assets and sales to total ... read more ...
Sat 20th September 2014
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General Nutrition Loses Bid To Grab GNC.Asia; Domain Holder Represented By Zak Muscovitch - We don’t cover to many .Asia UDRP’s but this one caught our eye because the Complainant General Nutrition Investment Company owns and operates vitamin and supplement stores all over the United States simply know as GNC. The domain holder, The Web Group of Washington, D.C., Uwas represented by Zak Muscovitch of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The three member panel of Douglas M. Isenberg, Diane Cabell and the Hon. Carolyn Marks Johnson agreed that the term “GNC” was generic and was used all over ... read more ...
Fri 19th September 2014
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Purva.com Lost In UDRP After Winning Last Year: Brokers Email To TM Holder Changes Everything - “The Panel observes that the Complaint filed by Complainant is against the same Respondent in regard to the same disputed domain name as a previous UDRP case, Puravankara Projects Limited v. Shiva Malhotra, WIPO Case No. D2013-0260, decided on March 25, 2013. “The Complaint in that previous proceeding was filed on February 7, 2013. ” Complainant was unsuccessful in persuading the panel who rendered the previous determination (the “previous panel”) that the disputed domain name was the ... read more ...
 
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.Com Is Rocking -             As someone who watches the numbers of domain name registrations across all TLD’s everyday I have to say .Com is rocking and seems to be getting stronger by the day. Back on March 31, there were 113.2 Million .Com registered according to Verisign. Today 5 1/2 months later .com has topped 114.4 Million registrations (14,408,441) with a net add of over 37,000 registrations yesterday and over 30K the day before according to RegistrarStats.com It was just about a month ago that we ... read more ...
 
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1st Day New gTLD Radix Totals: .Website 6,342; .Press 800; .Host 780 & Updated Totals on This Week’s Launches - Three new gTLD’s went into general availability (GA) yesterday all operated by Radix and the totals after the first day of general availability including domain names registered during the Sunrise period for Trademark holders and during Landrush a period where registrant could pay more money for early access to the domain names are as follows: .Website 6,342 .Press 800 .Host 780 Yesterday afternoon Radix put out a press release saying that they had registered over 6,500 .Website domain names in ... read more ...
Thu 18th September 2014
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Over 6,500 .Website Domain Names Registered In The First 4 Hours Of Availability - According to a press release we just received from Radix, the new gTLD .WEBSITE, that went into General Availability today has already surpassed 6,500 domains in the first 4 hours “We have been confident about .website right from the start and these numbers just reinforce the potential the TLD holds.” said Sandeep Ramchandani, Radix business head. Registrars such as OpenSRS, 1Api, 101domain, Key-Systems had expressed their buy-in in the TLD from start by giving it top billing on their homepages ... read more ...
 
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Beware of Bogus Go Daddy “Account On – Hold” Email Scam - Back on August 17th we wrote about a scam email going around that was impersonating Go Daddy, there looks to be a new one out that says your account is on hold. Another phishing attempt. Elliot Silver had pointed out a post that Go Daddy blogged about when dealing with email and phishing back in August as well. https://garage.godaddy.com/smallbusiness/secure/email-phishing-think-link/ Here is the text of the new bogus email: The subject line: Subject: Account on Hold: Registry Domain ID: 2844255_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN Partner ... read more ...
 
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Domain Broker Igloo.com Acquires Aftermarket.com - Igloo.com Limited, a Domain Brokerage Consultancy Firm, has acquired the business of Aftermarket.com from Thought Convergence, Inc. for an undisclosed price according to a press release we received “This acquisition builds upon Igloo’s recent news of entering into an exclusive agreement with Rook Media to provide brokerage and related services for their newly acquired DomainSponsor portfolio. Visitors to Igloo.com’s marketplace will have access to millions of names appealing to every type ... read more ...
 
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Unitedprint.com Buys EasyPrint.com For an “Unspecified Six-Figure Sum - According to a press release out today, a German company Unitedprint.com, announced the bought the domain name EasyPrint.com for an “amount in the six figures” The original Press release is in German and I used Google to translate it: Online printing unitedprint.com SE acquires the domain www.easyprint.com at an unspecified numbered six-figure sum, strengthening its global market access. With the acquisition of Easyprint.com address for their own brand Easy Print to unitedprint.com SE is even ... read more ...
 
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Frank Schilling’s Name Administration Gets Hit With UDRP On TableForTwo.com By TablefortwoBlog.com - Yesterday we wrote about Frank Schilling’s Name Administration winning its 35th UDRP Today the company got his with another UDRP on the domain name tablefortwo.com The Complaint was filed by a Julie Wampler who owns the domain name tablefortwoblog.com Name Administration has owned the domain name TableforTwo.com since at least 2005 The domain name tablefortwoblog.com was first registered some 6 years later in 2011. There are several trademarks in the USPTO for the term “table for two” and one ... read more ...
 
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There are now over 1Billion Websites on a Internet - The Internet now has over 1 Billion websites, that is according to Internet Live Stats. The website points out, “By “Website” we mean unique hostname (a name which can be resolved, using a name server, into an IP Address). It must be noted that around 75% of websites today are not active, but parked domains or similar. “ Tech Times wrote: Rejoice! The Internet recently reached more than 1 billion websites, according to the site Internet Live Stats, and they just keep coming. Now you know ... read more ...