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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 2nd July 2014
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“Creator Of Bitcoin Protocol” Domain Name Satoshi.com Sells On Sedo.com For $75,000 - According to wikipedia.org, Satoshi Nakamoto is a person or group of people who created the Bitcoin protocol and reference software, Bitcoin Core. In 2008, Nakamoto published a paper on The Cryptography Mailing list at metzdowd.com describing the Bitcoin digital currency. In 2009, he released the first Bitcoin software that launched the network and the first units of the Bitcoin currency, called bitcoins.” Today the domain name Satoshi.com just crossed the Sedo domain sales wire selling for $75,000. The ... read more ...
 
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USPTO Grants Two Patents On DNS including “Systems & Methods for Providing DNS Services” - Two Patents were granted yesterday by the USPTO on DNS Nominum, Inc received a patent on Systems and methods for providing DNS services A system for providing a Domain Name System (DNS) service may include providing an agent for installation on a subscriber device. The subscriber device may be connected to the DNS service via an entry point device. The system includes receiving, from the agent, agent data indicative of a subscriber identifier and a unique identifier associated with the entry point ... read more ...
 
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UGN.com Under Same Ownership For 10+ Years Hit With UDRP - The three letter domain name UGN.com which appears to have been owned or under the control of  Boca Database Services, Inc since at least 2004, has been hit with a UDRP. The domain name is not resolving. The last entry that Screenshots.com has for the domain name is from 2009, and it looks to be an very simply placeholder. The name of the COmplainant is not listed but their is suprinly only 1 trademark in the USPTO for the term UGN and that was filed on March 1 2014, by United Golf Network, Inc. ... read more ...
 
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TechCrunch.com Wins Rights To The The Hack Domain TechCrun.ch in UDRP - A one member UDRP panel just awarded the domain name hack of Techcrun.ch to the publisher of Techcrunch.com which also owns the domain name TechCrunch.ch For those that don’t know a domain hack is where a registrant uses a domain extension, typically a two letter country code (ccTLD) to spell a word. In this case the .Ch extension is the country code for Switzerland and since its a ccTLD is subject to the rules, regulations and laws of the underlying country. The short decision was published in ... read more ...
 
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WSJ.com Covers New gTLD Domain Extensions Highlighting .Global: “We Spent $10M” -       WSJ.com Live Covered the new gTLD domain name program today on WSJ Live and the star of the 3 minute segment was .Global The segment was entitled Bye ‘Dot Com,’ 1300 New Domains Blowing You Away. “You know ‘dot com’ and ‘dot org’ but over the next few years you could be using more than 1300 new domain names. The WSJ’s Ramy Inocencio speaks with Dot Global CEO Rolf Larsen on what expansion means for you.” In the interview Rolf told WSJ.com that the application cost him ... read more ...
Tue 1st July 2014
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Sedo Domain Name Transactions Total $2.3MM For The Week -

Over a past week, 614 exchange took place on Sedo’s marketplace and around SedoMLS, totaling $2.3MM. 47% of sum sales were a outcome of Buy Now listings.

Highlights of open sales are:

· Top .coms: mm.com during 1.2MM USD
· Top ccTLD: eingangstür.de during 7,500 EUR
· Top “other” TLD: eat.club during 20,000 USD

Below is a finish report:

 

Via: thedomains.com

 
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Warning: Expired Domains Are Easy Pickings for Hackers - GroovyPost.com did a piece written by Jack Busch about his experience with an expired domain and hackers. From the article: I learned a hard lesson this week. Long story short, a spammer from Vietnam has hijacked my Google Apps for Domains (now called Google Apps for Business) account and is currently sending people emails from my old email address (jack@anthrocopy.com) complete with my signature, phone number and name and everything on it. Anthrocopy.com was an informal dba name I used years ago ... read more ...
 
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New Tool: How to Invest in Chinese Domains Without Knowing a Word of Chinese: ChineseLandrush.com - TLD Registry Ltd the registry for Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网) has released a new tool to help domain investors who do not speak Chinese (guys like me) to find available  domains in Chinese. The New tool is  ChineseLandrush.com . “ChineseLandrush.com is an innovative new way to help non-Chinese speakers to understand and invest in Chinese domains. At ChineseLandrush.com, visitors will always find 500 great, hand-made domain name suggestions. The suggestions ... read more ...
 
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MSC.com Purchased At Sedo Auction For $48K In Dec Saved In UDRP - MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company Holding S.A. of Geneva, Switzerland, just lost its attempt to grab the domain name MSC.com Its an interesting case because the domain name was acquired by the domain holder Paul Kocher, in a Sedo auction for $48,000 in December 2013 Actually Jeremiah Johnston of Sedo represented the domain holder. After the auction the trademark holder offered to buy the domain for $50,000 which the domain holder rejected and the UDRP was filed. Here are the relevant facts and ... read more ...
 
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Personal Communication Systems, Inc Gulity Of RDNH On Healthwave.com - Personal Communication Systems, Inc. of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, represented by Bell, Davis Pitt, P.A. was just found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the domain name healthwave.com. The Complainant registered a trademark on the term HEALTHWAVE in October 2012. The domain holder registered the domain in 2002 The one member panel of Andrew D. S. Lothian wrote: “The Respondent in the present case has requested that the Panel make a finding of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking ... read more ...
 
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PIR Names Ex-Verisign VP Dave Stewart VP Of Sales And Marketing For .Org/.Ngo/.Ong - Public Interest Registry (PIR), the not-for-profit operator of the .org, named former Verisign VP, Dave Stewart As Vice President Of Sales And Marketing Industry for .org and .ngo, .ong Most recently, Mr. Stewart served as vice president for strategic partnerships at Verisign where he was responsible for account management, channel marketing and business development. During his 10 years at Verisign, he helped champion the .com and .net brands across a global distribution channel of over 900 partners ... read more ...
 
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Microsoft Seizes 22 Domains Of No­-IP Based Off Of SubDomain Usage & Millions Of Uses Effected - No­-IP a DNS service company told its customers on its company blog yesterday, that Microsoft has gotten a federal court order seizing 22 of its domain names based on the activity of users on some of the subdomains. According to arstechnica.com, “Millions of legitimate servers that rely on dynamic domain name services from No-IP.com suffered outages on Monday after Microsoft seized 22 domain names it said were being abused in malware-related crimes against Windows users.” “In a complaint Microsoft ... read more ...
 
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The Spamhaus Project Spamhaus.org, Files UDRP On Spamhaus.com -             The Spamhaus Project, Ltd which is the go to source for many to identify and track spammers  just filed a UDRP for the domain, Spamhaus.com The Spamhaus Project, Ltd operates under the URL Spamhous.org The domain name Spamhaus.com is owned by Ondova Limited. You might recall that Ondova Limited is the company which Jeff Baron owns or owned who has been in litigation for many years now over the control and disposition of the company assets, including the bankruptcy court ordered ... read more ...
 
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You Tube Around The World - Wonder of Tech posted an interesting look at You Tube around the world. YouTube is the third most popular site in the world, including everything from TED Talks that educate to stupid human tricks that make you wonder about the future of civilization. But did you know how different YouTube is in countries across the globe? This infographic illustrates the popularity of YouTube in various countries. While you might assume that the US, home of YouTube, would be the source of most of the traffic to ... read more ...
Mon 30th June 2014
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Go Daddy Launches Mobile Payment System “Get Paid” - Go Daddy launched Get Paid today a new mobile payment service that partners with Paypal, Stripe and Dwolla. Tech Crunch covered the launch. These types of products are the ever continuing push to focus on small business and become a player in areas where Go Daddy did not compete prior to Blake Irving becoming CEO. From the article: As GoDaddy gears up for a $100 million IPO, the domain and web services company is adding on more features that will help it make more profitable revenues from its 12 ... read more ...
 
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The Bitcoin Domain Name Boom - Bitcoin Domains in the Spotlight Coin Desk did a piece on the boom in Bitcoin related domain names, Ron Jackson was quoted in the story. The story covers BTCS.com as well as BitcoinWallet.com which was sold for $250,000 by Niko Younts. Niko talks in the article about prices rising for Bitcoin related domain names. BTCS.com apparently was purchased for $12,250. From the article: Bitcoin isn’t the only digital asset changing hands for lots of money these days. The cryptocurrency has spurred a rising ... read more ...
 
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Why Is Neustar Allowing Nicaragua To Use A .US Doman for Their Offical Visitor Site? - I saw a full page ad in a travel magazine a few weeks ago for the website VisitNicaragua.us. It was a very nice full color ad which promoted the country as a great tourist destination. The domain name is registered to the Nicaraguan Tourism Board and whose registered address on the whois records is in Nicaragua My first thought that it is stupid domain for the official travel site of a country to use domain name in  the ccTLD of other country. After all .US is the ccTLD for the United States and ... read more ...
Sun 29th June 2014
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One Tiny Country Gets Some Exposure from One Large Movie Franchise - The Pitcairn Islands are a group of four volcanic islands in the southern Pacific Ocean. The population is 56, yes 56. It is safe to say that most have no idea that the Pitcairn Islands have their own country code, and even fewer would know what two letters represent this tiny nation. The country code is .PN. Pitcairn is getting the greatest piece of marketing they could ever hope for with the release of a new Hunger Games trailer. The blockbuster book and movie franchise released a trailer on June ... read more ...
 
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California Governor Signs Into Law The Use of Alternative Currencies Such as Bitcoin - We wrote a couple days ago about an alternative currency bill that was off to Governor Jerry Brown of California for his signature. Governor Brown has signed it into law. NewsBtc.com reported” We’ve been discussing a bill that’s been making its rounds through the legal system in California, and as of this weekend, it’s been signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown just days after the news that lawmakers in the Golden State had passed it. That bill [also referred to as AB-129]– as we’ve ... read more ...
 
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Domainers Choice Award Winners - The Domainers Choice Awards announced their winners on Saturday at DBR Fun Fest, Kevin McKim from NameInnovations live tweeted the winners. TheDomains.com was nominated for best publication, we congratulate Ron Jackson for winning that award, Ron has always been number one in my book so I am very glad to see him win the award. Ron is off for an extended vacation in celebration of his 30th Wedding anniversary. Kudos to Donna Mahony for all the hard word and effort she put into this award ceremony, ... read more ...
Sat 28th June 2014
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Sands Files Lawsuit Against 35 Websites/Domains Including 368.COM, 8227.COM & 9770.COM, -             Las Vegas Sands Corp. (Sands) filed a federal lawsuit on Friday in the United States District Court for the District Of Nevada against the owners of 35 websites/domain names including 368.COM, 8227.COM and 9770.COM. The suit alleges that the unknown registrants of thirty-five Internet domain names who are using Las Vegas Sands Corp.’s world famous “Sands” trademark, “Jinsha” Chinese characters ( 金沙, meaning roughly, “golden sand” and which is the Chinese equivalent ... read more ...
 
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Since Mi.com sole for $3.6 million, Mark Monitor has been scooping adult other Mi.cctld domains - Back in April, Chinese mobile device maker Xiaomi purchased Mi.com for $3.6 million, some reporters noted that the MI made perfect sense for the company as Mi can work as an acronym for Mobile Internet. Since that acquisition it seems that brand protection specialist Mark Monitor has been out scooping up Mi domains in other country codes. Mi.co.uk was reported sold on DN Journal for $14,000. The domain was reported sold by DomainNameSales.com. This domain was reported sold before the Mi.com sale, ... read more ...
Fri 27th June 2014
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Bitcoin as a Legal Currency in Currency Bill is Off to Governor Brown for Signing - The bill looking to make Bitcoin a legal currency in California is now going to the Governor Mike Shedlock and investment adviser with Sitka Pacific Capital Management, covered the bill on his blog. From the article: California Bill AB-129 Lawful Money passed the California Senate on June 19, and the Assembly on June 23. The bill now awaits signing by Governor Jerry Brown. Existing law prohibits a corporation, flexible purpose corporation, association, or individual from issuing or putting in circulation, ... read more ...
 
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Verisign Downgraded By Wells Fargo: Growth Is Slowing Due To New gTLD’s & Could Get Worse - TheStreet.com is reporting that Wells Fargo analyst Gray Powell downgraded Verisign (VRSN) today writing: VeriSign’s domain name growth appears to be falling a bit lower than the midpoint of second quarter expectations and competition from new gTLDs could be influencing overall growth to some degree. “The company is tracking toward about 400K domain name additions in the upcoming quarter, which is lower than the 550K guidance midpoint, said the analyst, citing ICANN zone files.” “The analyst ... read more ...
 
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Say Hello To The 1st 158 .NYC Domains: HappyBirthday.NYC, Honeymoon.NYC Startrek.NYC - The Sunrise period for trademark/brand holders closed on June 20 for the .NYC new gTLD, the extension for the city of New York. The latest zone files indicate that  brands and trademark holders participated very lightly in the Sunrise period,  where I count less than 160 domain name registrations (of course all of the Sunrise maybe in). However since New York is largely regarded to be the headquarters of so many companies including those in media, advertising, marketing and is the home to thousands ... read more ...