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.

Thu 18th September 2014
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1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Church 4,044; .Guide 3,387; .Life 2,106; .Loans 632; .Republican 385 - Five new gTLD’s went into general availability (GA) on Wednesday. Including domains registered in the Sunrise period by trademark holders and by those willing to pay an extra charge to register domain name in the Early Access Program (EAP) prior to GA here are the number of domain name registrations after the first day of GA: .Church 4,044 .Guide 3,387 .Life 2,106 .Loans 632 .Republican 385 So we have further indication that religion beats politics. In general the political domains have been a ... read more ...
 
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Google & Donuts Lose All 3 ICANN New gTLD Auctions: What Did We Learn Today? - ICANN published results of the first three ICANN Last Resort Auctions (there was an auction in June for a IDN String) tonight and we certainly learned a few things. Many people had the opinion that Google and Amazon would simply outbid all other applicants for all the strings just because they could. However Google wound up losing all three auctions as did Donuts. At the end of the day Google like all companies, have a budget for each string and won’t pay an unlimited amount of money for each just ... read more ...
Wed 17th September 2014
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Radix Registry Giving You A Chance to Win a Free Go Pro - Radix Registry the company behind the .Website extension wants to give you a chance to win a free Go Pro. The company is running a one day contest. Participate in the .website launch contest to win a GoPro! Guess the number of regs we will be at by the end of 24 hours of launch #newgtlds — Radix (@RadixRegistry) September 17, 2014 Tweet your guess with #truegeneric and tag @radixregistry before 18th Sep 1600 UTC. The closest guess wins a GoPro! #newgtlds #contest #ntld — Radix (@RadixRegistry) ... read more ...
 
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Frank Schilling’s Name Adminstration Wins Its 35th UDRP on ParisJewellers.com - Name Administration won its 35th UDRP today as a three member panel of the National Arbitration Forum, rejected Paris Jewellers Ltd. of Canada Complaint on the domain name ParisJewellers.com which was registered by Name Administration back in 2004. As always, Name Administration was represented by John Berryhill, Esq. This decision was short and sweet as the Complainant didn’t have a registered trademark and its two attempts to register a trademark in Canada were rejected by the Canadian Intellectual ... read more ...
 
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.London, Has More Reserved Domains Than Registrations & You Won’t Believe What’s on The List - .London which launched last week has just over 39,00 domain name registration in the zone file as of today, which many regard to be less than impressive. The population of London’s metropolitan area is the largest in the EU with a total of 13,614,409. So out of over 13 Million residents not counting all the businesses and organization in the area, 39,o00 registrations isn’t that terrific in my opinion. Minds + Machines is operating the registry with active cooperation from the city. We got a ... read more ...
 
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Tuesday Was .Vegas Day & A Big Celebration Was Held At Las Vegas City Hall -     The City of Las Vegas held a very cool launch ceremony for Dot Vegas at Las Vegas city hall today. Namescon.Vegas was the very first domain activated by .Vegas after Nic.Vegas (Nic.is the first domain activated by every new gTLD registry) Richard Lau and and Jothan Franks of Namescon were on hand to celebrate the launch, who appears in the picture on top of the post. Mike McLaughlin from Godaddy spoke about their current campaign and excitement over .Vegas, which is currently prominently displayed ... read more ...
Tue 16th September 2014
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Sedo Transactions Total Just $1M As Baltic.Cruises Tops The List during $25,000 -

Over a past week, 543 exchange took place on Sedo’s marketplace and around SedoMLS, totaling $1 Million

49% of sum sales were a outcome of Buy Now listings.

Highlights of open sales are:

· Top .coms: kiel.com during 19,500 EUR

· Top ccTLD: bs.tv during 15,000 USD

· Top “other” TLD: baltic.cruises during 25,000 USD

 

Via: thedomains.com

 
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Handy.com Sells: New Owner Says “it wasn’t Cheap” & Has A Lesson For Domain Owners - TechCrunch.com just covered a company that acquired the domain name Handy.com which quotes the buyer saying “it wasn’t cheap.” The domain name was owned by Neue Medien GmbH of Germany. which may have been formerly  known as Media Empire and Benjamin Pitzer as that was what the domain was registered under a couple of years ago and according to Screeshots.com the website hadn’t changed in years. We have some thoughts about this sale and a lesson for domainer, but first here is the rest of ... read more ...
 
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.Guide Going Live Wed Has More Registrations Than 4 M + M gTLD’s Have After 1st Day Of GA - .Guide which goes into general availability tomorrow, Wednesday September 17th already has more registrations than four strings of Minds + Machines after their first day of GA yesterday. .Guide is sitting at 403 domain name all registered in Sunrise by trademark holders and in the Early Access Program (EAP), while .fishing after its first day of GA is sitting at 387, .Horse is sitting at 327, Country (owned jointly with Uniregistry) is sitting at 220 and .Rodeo is at 107. At 403 registrations .Guide ... read more ...
 
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FCC Receives Over 3 Million Comments on Net Neutrality - Yesterday was the last day to get comments into the FCC with regards to Net Neutrality. Tech Crunch noted that there were over 3 million comments with a few hours left, this was double the number reported last week. There were several websites that asked for the public to speak up. Name Cheap has been out there urging everyone to get involved, and Blake Irving of Go Daddy sent a letter to FCC Chairman Wheeler, which he posted on his blog. Irving wrote: Dear Chairman Wheeler: GoDaddy is a technology ... read more ...
Mon 15th September 2014
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LINDT Loses UDRP Bid To Grab ExcellenceChocolate.com Based On Its EXCELLENCE TM - Chocoladefabriken Lindt Sprüngli AG (“Complainant”), just lost its attempt to grab the domain name excellencechocolate.com based on a trademark on the term EXCELLENCE. Although the panelist James A. Carmody, Esq. found that “Complainant rights in EXCELLENCE are suspect”, “that the underlying the mark is a clearly generic phrase neither coined by nor inherently associated with Complainant that the domain holder has been selling chocolate under the EXCELLENCE CHOCOLATE mark since 1989″ ... read more ...
 
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Esqwire.com Gets Another Reverse Domain Name Hijacking Ruling: CountryGirl.com - LML Investments LLC (LML) represented by Jeremiah A. Pastrick of Continental Enterprises, Indiana was just found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the domain name CountryGirl.com The domain holder P.A. Gordon represented by Ari Goldberger of Esqwire.com, New Jersey, USA. The three member panel of Paul M. DeCicco, Esq., The Honourable Neil Anthony Brown, QC, James A. Carmody, Esq found that LML which had a trademark since 2008 attempt to grab the domain name that was registered 7 years ... read more ...
 
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Cabs.com Sells On Sedo For $50K -

The domain name Cabs.com only sole on Sedo for $50,000

The domain name was owned by Enterprise Solutions Holdings Inc, of Alpharetta Georgia

The new owners is William Berry of London, England that he acquired in 2013 from Softbrands who seemed to acquire a domain in 2004.

The domain name was initial purebred on Sep 05, 1995.

Sounds like a ruin of a buy.

Congrats

Via: thedomains.com

 
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At Least One Registrar is Offering Free .Webcam Domain Registration - Courtesy  of our new gTLD blogging friend Jean Guillon comes word that at least one domain name registrar is offering free .Webcam registration through the end of the year though one registrar. According to Jean you can register free .Webcam domain names can be registered at the domain name registrar AlpNames.com  for one year with this coupon: NEWSGTLDS100 The offer is valid until December 2014. Jean goes on to say this is a “limited offer” but doesn’t indicate what the limitations ... read more ...
 
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No End User’s Registering New gTLD’s? Check Out The First .Church Domain Names - .Church is landing into General Availability on Wednesday September 17th and has almost 400 domain names registered in its Sunrise Period open to trademark holders and through the Early Access Program (EAP) for which registrants paid an extra fee. Looking thought the zone file for .Church there are what may come as a surprise to many, there are a lot of end users, what appear to be hundreds of Churches that actually registered their own .Church domain name Of course there are some generics like jesuschrist.church ... read more ...
Sun 14th September 2014
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.XYZ 1st New gTLD To Break 500,000 Registrations - .XYZ has become the first new gTLD to break the 500,000 registration mark. According to ntldstats.com has 501,459 domain registrations. A little of 377,000 of these registrations are from Network Solutions which as we at TheDomains.com discovered early on, are free registrations. Onamae.com a Japanese registrar owned by GMO has over 55,000 of the registrations. Xin Net Technology Corporation a Chinese registrar has the third most .XYZ domain registrations at just over 26,500. It should be noted that ... read more ...
 
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Landrush For .Website & .Press Ends Monday: Here’s a Special Price & Available Domains - The Landrush for three Radix’s new gTLD’s, .Website, .Press and .Host closes on Monday at Noon EST We have a special coupon code that will save you 10% off the landrush and pre-registration for any non-premium priced .website and .Press domain. The coupon code only works at 101domain.com and we furnished to the readers of TheDomains.com Coupon Code: RADIXLR10 This is applicable on: https://www.101domain.com/website.htm https://www.101domain.com/press.htm The registry Radix sent me over a list ... read more ...
Sat 13th September 2014
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18 Year Old MySchool.com Hit With UDRP For The Second Time in 4 Years - The domain name MySchool.com looks to be getting hit with a UDRP for a second time in four years. Back in 2010 Joseph L. Carpenter brought a UDRP against Andy Booth and his Foresight.com. At that time Carpenter alleged the following: The Complainant alleges that he has used MYSCHOOL® as a trademark and brand name in connection with online information and advertisements in the field of education since at least December of 2008. He operates his website in connection with the domain name myschool411.com. ... read more ...
 
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SeekingAlpha: Shares of Rightside Have At Least 37% Downside - SeekingAlpha the Stock publication, just published a pretty scathing review of Rightside, (NASDAQ:NAME) the spin off of Demand Media, in a story entitled “Rightside is Its Trending on the Wrongside.” The story cites some publications in the domain industry including TheDomains.com Domainincite.com and Circleid.com The story comcludes comparing the company on the Registrar level to Tucows the registrars enom.com and name.com have no value and concloudes that the stock has at least 37% downside. Share ... read more ...
Fri 12th September 2014
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In Auction At Snap: Gynecologist.com & Obstetrician.com: Is Moniker Pulling A Tucows? -             There are two great bang on medical domain names in closed auctions at Snapnames.com, Gynecologist.com Obstetrician.com More about the auctions in a few, but the history of the domain names may indicate that Moniker has gone the way of Tucows and is picking up expired domains for its own account and then selling them instead of letting the simply drop. The domain name Gynecologist.com was owned by a a company called IDEAS, Inc. out of Saddle River New Jersey on August 9th, with ... read more ...
 
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ICANN New gTLD Auctions Scheduled For Next Week Include 1st Between Amazon & Google - There are three ICANN new gTLD contention resolution auctions scheduled for next week and for the first time Amazon and Google will go head to head for a new gTLD extension in an auction whose results including the amount paid will be made public. Not only will Google and Amazon duke it out for .Buy but they will be joined by Donuts and Famous Four Media. In the new gTLD ICANN auction for .Tech will include; Frank Schilling’s Uniregisty, Donuts, Google, Minds + Machines and Straat.co the group ... read more ...
 
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March Of Dimes Switches Its Website Domain From .Com to .Org - According to a press release out today The March of Dimes has switched its domain name from Marchofdimes.com to Marchofdimes.org. If your wondering who owned the .Org before it was Rehabilitation Foundation for the Disabled in Toronto which owns the domain name Marchofdimes.ca It appears that the March Of Dimes acquired the .org back in March of this year. MarchofDimes.com is now being redirected to the Marchofdimes.org. Of course since the March of Dimes owns both the .com and .org there won’t ... read more ...
Thu 11th September 2014
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Sedo Weekly Sales $1.4 million led by Musik.de - Sedo.com Weekly Sales List 2014-09-01 – 2014-09-07 Top .com: Decoded.com $50,000 this domain was purchased by the .Co owner Top cctld: Musik.de 99,999 Euros Top non com gtld: KQ.net $13,500 Over the past week, 525 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.4m. 48% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.    ... read more ...
 
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Dot Club Surpasses .XXX in Registrations - .Club today reached 104,573 registered domains according to ntldstats.com, that puts the new gtld ahead of the .xxx extension which had an almost 3 year head start. The .xxx registration numbers stand at just under 104,000 according to Registrar Stats. Out of all the new gtlds currently released ,Dot Club is ranked number one when it comes to fully paid registrations and in third place over all. Up next for .CLub is .Pro with over 111,000 registrations. We need to compare new oranges to oranges,  ... read more ...
 
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5 million Google email addresses, usernames and passwords leaked - Carla Marshall wrote on ReelSeo.com about a data breach involving 5 million Google email addresses. She also included a link to a website that supposedly will let you know if your Google account is open to being comprised. So you might want to change your passwords. Google said the following, The security of our users is of paramount importance to us. We have no evidence that our systems have been compromised, but whenever we become aware that an account has been compromised, we take steps to help ... read more ...