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 4th September 2014
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
1st Day New gTLD Registrations: .Gratis 1,010; .Credit 801; .Audio 701; .Juegos 482; .Hiphop 424; .Claims 397; .Creditcard 281 - This week saw 7 new gTLD launch into GA, plus 2 Geographic new gTLD’s for the city of .Cologne which is also spelled .Koeln, whose zone files have not updated. For the 7 new gTLD’s which launched this week, the results an only be described as pretty much a disaster in terms of domain name registration numbers, as only 1 of the 7 barely broke 4 figures and when I say barely I mean by 11 registrations. Here are the number of new gTLD registrations after the 1st day of General Availability (GA) ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Freelancer.com Launches New Online Marketplace For Domain Names & Websites - According to smartcompany.com.au, Freelancer.com, announced the launch of a new online marketplace for buying and selling websites and domain names. “The marketplace, to be known as Freemarket, was originally part of an online internet marketing message board known as Warrior Forum, which was founded in 1997 and acquired by Freelancer.com.au in April of this year.” “By separating the marketplace from Warrior Forum, Freelancer.com says in a statement it hopes to “leverage the consolidated ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Namejet.com Reports $750K in Domain Names Sales In August -

Namejet.com expelled a domain auction news for Aug 2014 stating a sales of $2,000 or more.

The domain auctions reported by Namejet.com sum only underneath $750,000

Here are a domain sales:

Via: thedomains.com

Wed 3rd September 2014
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Francois Carrillo of Domaining.com Launches BitKoin.com For Crypto Currency Blogs - Francois Carrillo who company operates Domaining.com has launched another news/blog aggregator on Crypto Currency. BitKoin.com now carries 23 feeds from blogs covering Crypto Currency. We reached out to Francois to ask him why he picked Crypto Currency? “Crypto currency is something new and growing fast. People want to know more, get informed. As a proof, TheDomains.com is now periodically posting some articles about crypto currencies. Many domainers started to invest in Bitcoins this past year: Ammar ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
ICANN TO Chat With GAC At ICANN 51 in LA, Whether 2 Character new gTLD Domains Should Be Allowed - In a letter to Heather Dryden Chair of the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) Stephen D. Crocker, Chair ICANN Board of Directors made it clear that ICANN will be taking up the issue of allowing the registration of 2 character new gTLD domain names: Dear Heather, On behalf of the Board New gTLD Program Committee (NGPC), I thank you for your letter of 8 August 2014 regarding requests from new gTLD applicants and registries for the release of two- character domain names in the new gTLD namespace. ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN
AriaSystems Is Offering Free e-book On Monetizing a Internet of Things - AriaSystems.com is offering a free ebook on “Monetizing the Internet of Things: Perspectives from the Front Lines,” an e-book released today and available free of charge from Aria Systems, “the leading innovator in recurring revenue management.” “The Internet of Things (IoT) promises to create new business models as significant as those that were inspired by the Internet and the smartphone 20 and 10 years ago. What business, social and practical implications will this phenomenon bring? “‘Monetizing ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
More Domains Added To Holiday.com Auction: Journey.com, Kuwait.com, Iraq.com, Arab.com, Doha.com & Dubai.net - Last week we wrote about Holiday.com going on the auction block with an expected sales price north of $30 Million Today other domain names were added to the November travel auction including on auction: Among most expensive domain names Other domain names on auction include Holiday.com, Journey.com, Kuwait.com, Iraq.com, Arab.com and Doha.com and Dubai.net The domains are being auctioned off at the World Travel Market (WTM) in November. Farad Laaforce, Managing Director of Breathe Luxury, a company ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN
The Curious Case of Weather.id - Namepros member Wot posted a thread a few days back where he asked the community what they thought about a certain situation involving a domain registration and it ending up in the account of the CEO of the registrar. At first he could not give the full details, he has now given the full name and posted the whole story on his blog. From his blog post and Namepros: I “registered” Weather.id with OnlyDomains.com Received confirmation On 26 Aug 2014, at 18:31, applications@onlydomains.com wrote: Thank ... read more ...
Tue 2nd September 2014
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Sedo Transactions Total $1.2 Million - Sedo just listed its transactions report for the past week and in all 556 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: nki.com at 18,000 USD · Top ccTLD: dh.pl at 15,750 EUR · Top “other” TLD: dolphin.org at 45,000 USD               ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Minds + Machines Landrush Auctions Start Tomorrow - Over the weekend I got notice that the landrush auctions for Minds + Machines for  its first new gTLD’s go live tomorrow. We got notice over the weekend that we are in the landrush auction for the following domain names: spear.fishing going.fishing marlin.fishing pro.rodeo The auctions are being handled by Pool.com Each landrush action is scheduled for 7 days. The four auctions we are in start tomorrow September 3rd and end on September 10th in accordance with Pool.com closing rules. We will let ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
.Credit; .CreditCard In General Availability Wednesday, Here Are The Taken Domain Names - Two new gTLD’s launching this week are pretty closely related, .Credit and .CreditCard and as of publication they have 182 and 130 domains registered respectively, through Sunrise period by trademark holders and through the Early Access Porgram (EAP) which allow registrants to pay a premium for early registrations prior to general availability  (GA). Both of the new gTLD’s go into GA on Wednesday. .Credit is priced at $129,99 for a registration at Godaddy while .CreditCard is priced even higher ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN
Apple May Be Getting Into Mobile Payments & We Just May Have The Perfect Domain For Them - There were a couple of stories out today on Apple getting into the mobile payments business. Apple has a big day coming up on September 9 a  news event day where many expect to see the new iPhone 6, there has also been talk of a wearable device. Now there is the possibility according to some in the business that a foray into mobile payments could be on the horizon. Tech Crunch wrote: As Apple inches closer to its news event on September 9, there has been growing speculation that mobile payments ... read more ...
Mon 1st September 2014
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Pinterest Wins Control PinSex.com With 49 Million Visitors Based On Common Law TM of “Pin” - Pinterest, Inc. just won control over two domain names PinSex.com and PinGay.com which are active sites driving a huge numbers of members and traffic based off a finding that Pinterest had common law rights to the word “pin” The disputed domain name was registered on June 5, 2008. The disputed domain name was registered on May 1, 2011. Pinterest got a US trademark on the term “pin” in June 2014. According to the domain holder the website pinsex.com” has had approximately 48.8 million ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Namecheap Finds & Issues Urgent Security Warning That May Affect All Internet Users - In a post on its corporate blog, Namecheap.com, the domain name registrar, announced it found an attack overnight and blocked over 30,000 IP’s that were attempting to  gather the “username and password data gathered from third party sites that were trying to be used to try and gain access to Namecheap.com accounts.” This is different than most attacks because Namecheap was not the target of the hackers, meaning that the  hackers were not trying to get the user information from Namecheap,  ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
1st Asset Backed Crypto Currency: Sync Coin Secured By Domains Trading At Same Price As Bitcoin -     Sync coin is the first asset-backed, profit-sharing currency and the asset the currency is back by is domain names. According to a press release, Sync Foundation and SyncFund.com co-founder, Mike Fiol, who has been in the domain industry for many years. is quoted in a press release, that the total supply of Sync is only 1,100 and now they are asset-backed, profit-sharing vehicles.””Sync Coin is more like an investment and member club than a currency like Bitcoin,” Those assets include ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Sedo Numeric Auction Starts Wednesday 49 extensions represented - On Wednesday Sedo will start its numeric auction of 265 domain names that run the gamut of super quality to wait what ? There will be 49 different extensions represented including .mobi, .enterprises and .name. Here is the list of extensions: asia be berlin bg bid bike biz cab cards ch club cn co co.com com com.cn com.tw dance dating de email enterprises estate eu fr gs hk holiday in info it lu me me.uk mobi name net nl nu org pub sexy tips today trade uno us xxx 在线IDN There are some incredible ... read more ...
Sun 31st August 2014
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
So When Does Amazon Buy Twitch.com ? - Twitch.tv was purchased this week by Amazon for $970 million, the little experiment that grew out of Justin.tv has become a major player in online video. For a long time it was rumored that Google would acquire Twitch. Now we know it is Amazon and two questions remain, 1) When will Amazon buy Twitch.com ? and 2) For how much ? The UFC also had an issue with the .com getting spillover traffic from its UFC.tv and eventually purchased UFC.com. UFC.tv shows videos while the .com is the main hub for ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
It’s David Vs Goliaths For Control of .Music - Harley Brown wrote an article for Billboard.com about the upcoming battle for .music. The indies vs Google and Amazon. The American Association of Independent Music (A2IM) has announced its support for the  music industry to control .music. A2IM believes that if Google or Amazon win the .music extension that they will obviously put profits ahead of industry and artist concerns. In a conversation with Billboard, A2IM President, Rich Bengloff expressed hope that ICANN would select a music community ... read more ...
Sat 30th August 2014
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Where Do You See The Value of Numeric.com Domains Going ? - Our latest poll takes a look at Numeric.com values. Numerics have continued to be one of the strongest categories for domain investors, fetching excellent prices and also being a very liquid category within the space. Michael has mentioned a few times that he has had several parties interested in 345.com which he owns. There have been multiple offers over $500,000. 4.CN completed its largest auction sale ever at 357.com sold for $161,633, 103.com sold for $130,164. Top 5 reported to DN Journal in ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
.Bio Generates $250K in Revenue In Its First Week - Starting Dot Ltd. the registry operator for new generic top-level domains (new gTLD) .BIO, .ARCHI .SKI, , put out a press release today announcing that over 4,100 .BIO domain names have been registered at the end of the first week generating over a $250,000 USD in revenue. “The .BIO launch ranks in the top 15 in terms of new gTLD first week retail revenue* and validates the popularity of the extension in the market place.” Starting Dot Ltd. management attributes the recent sales success to the ... read more ...
Fri 29th August 2014
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Bitcoin Could Become Legal Tender in Australia According To Official - Australian official suggests making Bitcoin legal tender in Australia. In a talk earlier in the week Chris Jordan, the Australian tax commissioner said some would like to see Bitcoin as legal tender. Currently Bitcoin does not meet the definition under Australian law, but he said that could change. From the Guardian: The Australian tax commissioner has left open the possibility that the digital payment system bitcoin could be considered legal tender in Australia. Bitcoin has been described as a ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Breaking; HitFarm.com Closing Up On Oct 1st - HitFarm.com is closing up its operations effective October 1, 2014 Here is an email we just received with the subject line “Re: Notice of Permanent Closure” “We regret to inform you that Hitfarm will no longer be in service effectively from October 1st, 2014.” “Accordingly, you will need to update your name servers for all domain names parked at Hitfarm.com by 11:59pm PST on September 30th, 2014. ” “All outstanding payments as at September 30th will be made at the end of October.” At ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
.Club Sells Its 100,000th Domain - CLUB Domains just announced that it has sold its 100,000th new domain name today, “setting a record as the first new generic top-level domain (gTLD) to sell 100,000 domains and continuing its streak as the best-selling new domain extension.” Although two other new gTLD’s have more domain registrations, no new gTLD has SOLD more domain names than .Club RightoftheDot.com a company of which I’m a Director and co-owner is brokering the Super Premium .Club domain names, including golf.club, country.club ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Google Authorship Comes To An End - Eric Enge wrote a very detailed and lengthy post about the end of Google Authorship, I remember when this first came out and everyone was telling me how important this was and to get on it. Bill Hartzer wrote an excellent piece about it on DomainInvesting.com back in March of 2013. This is one of the things that is frustrating with following Google like they are the masters of all things Internet, they start and stop a lot of projects. John Mueller told the  co-author of the piece with Enge, Mark ... read more ...
Thu 28th August 2014
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Holiday.com Hitting The Auction Block & “Experts” Predict It To Sell For More Than $30 Million - According to Dailymail.co.uk, the domain name Holiday.com is going to be auctioned off at the World Travel Market, a conference for the international travel industry at London Excel on November 5. According to unnamed “experts” the domain is about to “become the priciest domain name in history as it is auctioned for an estimated £20 MILLION” Of course that is 20 Million British Pounds which equates to over $33 Million dollars at today’s exchange rates. The story goes on to say the domain ... read more ...