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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.

Fri 30th October 2015
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Here's Something Scary, Namescon Early Bird Ticket Offer Ends Tomorrow On Halloween - The 2016 NamesCon Conference $399 Early Bird ticket offer expires at the end of the day tomorrow Saturday October 31. So you should take advantage of this treat because the regular price to attend the conference is $999. Namescon will be held at the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas from January 10-13 which is just 10 weeks away! Show organizers are promising that this 3rd annual edition of NamesCon will be by far the biggest ever. Co-Founder Richard Lau is forecasting more than 1,000 attendees will be ... read more ...
Thu 29th October 2015
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1St Day New gTLD Totals: .Live 3,470; .Studio 2,032; .SRL 223 - Two new gTLD’s launched into general availability (GA) yesterday .Live and .Studio both owned by Rightside (NAME) and one launched Tuesday offered by InterNetX; .SRL Including domain names registered in the Sunrise period by trademark holders and those registered in the Early Access Program (EAP) where registrants paid an extra fee to register domain names before (GA); here are the totals for each new domain extension after the first day of GA where domains could be registered on first come, first ... read more ...
Wed 28th October 2015
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Another UDRP FAIL! As Panel Refuses to Transfer a Domain Used for Phishing - Another interesting UDRP where a domain name was found to be used for Phishing and fraud but the panel refuses to transfer it because the trademark wasn’t identical or confusingly similar to a trademark or service mark in which Complainant had rights. Yes its a head scratcher. Bridgewater Associates, LP (“Complainant”), brought a UDRP on the new gTLD bwater.site The sole panelist David E. Sorkin found although the domain was registered and was being used in bad faith and that the domain owner ... read more ...
 
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IBM is Buying Weather.com - According to USAToday.com, International Business Machines Corp. (IBM)  has agreed to acquire the Weather Company’s data and digital properties which would include Weather.com Financial terms weren’t disclosed. But the deal is valued at more than $2 billion It doesn’t include Weather’s primary TV asset, the Weather Channel. “In 2008, the Weather Co. was bought by an investor group — led by Comcast’s NBCUniversal and the private equity firms Bain Capital and the Blackstone Group ... read more ...
 
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CENTR 3Q Report; There Are 298.4 Million Domains adult 1.6% - CENTR’spublished its DomainWire Stat Report for the third quarter of 2015, covering status and trends in global top-level domains. CENTR is the association of European country code top-level domain (ccTLD) registries According to the report there are now over 1,000 top level domains available with combined registrations at 298.4 million. Combined growth over the third quarter of 2015 was 1.6% which in terms of absolute values was fairly evenly split between the ccTLDs, new gTLDs and legacy gTLDs. Generally ... read more ...
Tue 27th October 2015
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Expired Domain Drop Catcher BackorderZone.com + 42 Domain Registrars Are for Sale - Backorderzone.com is for sale. Backorderzone.com competes with Namejet.com, Snapnames.com, Pheenix.com and DropCatch.com. Last week Namejet lowered the price of a backorder on a pending delete domain, the only type of domain names BackOrderZone.com catches, to $39. Included in the sale is the BackorderZone.com website, the drop catching software and 42 ICANN Accredited Registrars in good standing registered in US. “Every portion may be sold separately. Registrars maybe sold or rented out. Buyer ... read more ...
 
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UDRP Filed on Gorgonzola.xyz By Owner of Gorgonzola.com - The “Consorzio per la Tutela del Formaggio Gorgonzola” just filed a UDRP on the domain name Gorgonzola.xyz Gorgonzola of course is a cheese, and Consorzio per la Tutela del Formaggio Gorgonzola translates to “Consortium for the Protection of the Gorgonzola Cheese” yes seriously and they own the domain name Gorgonzola.com. Its pretty amazing how much you learn writing a blog: “Following the Stresa meeting of all major European experts in the dairy sector, an agreement was entered into on ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $1.2million though a genuine story is 9107.com - 672 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.2m. 50% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.     Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: farmfacts.com at 15,000 USD Top ccTLD: prediction.de at 8,000 EUR Top “other” TLD: lilo.org at 12,000 USD New Gtld Sales: Cool.club 5,000 USD 9999.Club 999 USD We may have had one of the best buys of the year, right up there with RQH.com. 9107.com sold for $2,500. I have emailed Sedo to see if this is legit ... read more ...
 
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I Spend Over 2 Hours a Day Answering Offers From China - You may have noticed I’m not blogging as much. Why? Its time to make money guys. As we all know buyers from China have been moving the domain name market for a few years, but we are now in uncharted waters. China now is making the market. US buyers are now interested in buying only the domain names the buyers in China want. I have 100+ LLL.com domains, about 30+ LLLL.com domain, 7 NNNN.com domains and lots of NNNNN.com domains that I registered back in the day when Marchex was buying them as area ... read more ...
Mon 26th October 2015
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Paul Vixie, Member Internet Hall of Fame: "New gTLD module is a Money Grab & Mistake" - Dr Paul Vixie, a member of the Internet Hall of Fame has called the new gTLD program a money grab and a mistake and called out ICANN for allowing it to happen saying it “indicates corruption.” ZDNet.com, published a post about Dr. Vixie remarks from the Ruxcon information security conference in Melbourne on Sunday. According to Wikipedia.org,  Dr. Vixie  is “an Internet pioneer, the author of several RFCs and some Unix software.  After he left Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in 1994, ... read more ...
 
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Registering Any Available LLLLL.com Domains? TM Holders Are Filing UDRP's On Them - It’s no big secret that many domainers have been registered any and all available LLLLL.com domain names, (Even LLLLLL.com  domains),  especially  in the past month or two. While I noticed a big uptick on the registration of  LLLLL.com domains, I have also noticed a big uptick in the number of UDRP’s being filed on what just seem to be a good repeater or a pronounceable short domain UDRP Decisions: DORNA WSBK ORGANIZATION S.R.L. wins UDRP on the domain name SBKKK.com CNN wins UDRP on the ... read more ...
Sun 25th October 2015
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Looks Like Sony Is Planning On A Sequel To Bad Teacher: "Another Bad Teacher" Based on Domains - It Looks like Sony Is planning on A Sequel to the 2011 hit Bad Teacher  that starred Cameron Diaz and Justin Timberlake. According to Wikipedia.org, Bad Teacher had a box office of over $216 Million Yesterday Sony registered several domain names that seem to indicate a sequel is in the works at brand protection company MarkMonitor.com: anotherbadteacher.com anotherbadteacher.net anotherbadteachermovie.com anotherbadteachermovie.net anotherbadteacherthemovie.com anotherbadteacherthemovie.net imdb.com,  ... read more ...
Sat 24th October 2015
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Here Are The 1st Domains In The New Domain Extension .NRA: ColdDeadHands.NRA -   The National Rifle Association, which applied to operate the new domain extension .NRA,  registered its 1st domain names and we have the list for you. According to their application to ICANN to operate the new gTLD .NRA, “All domains under this TLD will be managed by the NRA, so they will only be made available to organizations and individuals that have been personally approved and are known to intend to use a domain to promote the work of the NRA.” Some of the domains are very logical and ... read more ...
Fri 23rd October 2015
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.XYZ is Back Over 1 Million Domain Registrations & None Of Them Are Free - The new domain extension .XYZ has crossed the 1 Million domain name registration mark again. However now all of the “free” Network Solutions (NetSol) domain names that were stuffed into customers accounts on a non-automatic renewal basis have run their course. So all remaining Netsol registrations for an .XYZ domain exist because the owner paid to register or renew the domain According to Zone file records .XYZ crossed back over 1,000,000 domain registration mark for the first time today, since ... read more ...
 
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36% Of All US Banks Have Purchased a .Bank Domain Name - fTLD Registry the operator for .Bank announced today that 36% of U.S. banks have purchased a .BANK domain name and many are planning as using them for their online banking operations making .Bank the first break out success of the new gTLD program from an end user perceptive. “Since May 2015, 2,465 banks have purchased one or more .BANK domain names— signaling their commitment to providing a trusted, verified and more secure location online for their banking services.” “In the United States ... read more ...
 
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Domain Holder Loses UDRP On RentMyPartyBus.com Files Federal Lawsuit - The domain holder who lost a UDRP on the domain name RentMyPartyBus.com has filed a lawsuit in federal court in Arizona. Plaintiff Aleksey Silenko is the Director of Business for Safeway Transit LLC, a Minnesota company who is the named registrant for the domain name rentmypartybus.com. It’s a pretty interesting case, since the “trademark holder” was first incorporated on May 1, 2014 but in its trademark application to the USPTO it alleged first use in 2002. Although the domain holder first ... read more ...
Thu 22nd October 2015
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Delta Airlines Loses UDRP To Grab Domain Delta.Tours - Delta Air Lines, Inc. just lost its bid to grab the new gTLD Delta.tours in a one member panel UDRP of Douglas M. Isenberg. The domain holder’s case was greatly helped because he registered four other .Tours domains on the same day. “”Complaint states that the Disputed Domain Name was registered on July 8, 2015, that “[w]ithout [Complainant’s] authorization, Respondent is likely intending to use the domain to divert Internet users seeking [Complainant’s] official website online to Respondent’s ... read more ...
 
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Verisign Reports: 135.2M .Com/.Net Domains, Increase 3.4% : Has $1.9 Billion In The Bank - VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), today reported financial results for the third quarter of 2015. VeriSign, Inc. and subsidiaries (“Verisign”) reported revenue of $266 million for the third quarter of 2015, up 4.2% from the same quarter in 2014. Verisign reported net income of $92 million and diluted earnings per share of $0.70 for the third quarter of 2015, compared to net income of $95 million and diluted EPS of $0.69 for the same quarter in 2014. The operating margin was 58.1% for the third ... read more ...
 
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Looks like 86 Sunrise Domains For .Law; 30 For .Abogado But Not All Registrants Are Lawyers - The new gTLD’s .Law and .abogado are in general availability but due to the new domain extensions being restricted, registrations are taking a while to show up in the zone file. Today it appears the domain names registered in the Sunrise Period were loaded into the zone and at the moment the count is 86 domain name registrations in .law and 30 for .abogado. However interestingly there seems to be some registrants in Sunrise by Companies that are not lawyers. There are registrants of domain names ... read more ...
 
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It is all about a eights - The Sedo auction for 8888828.com was paid and hit the Sedo sales wire, the name sold for $5,103, yes a 7N.com. The seller is local to me actually about 30 minutes away in King of Prussia, DomainDakini.com purchased the domain name back in 2014, it looks like from a Chinese registrant who hand regged the domain back in 2013. The domain was dropped twice previously. That is the tricky thing with these names, people tend to get bored with no action and drop a domain name, there certainly was little ... read more ...
Wed 21st October 2015
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DNF.com Has Sold -

DNF.com has sole a domain that forwarded to DNForum.com is now owned by a registrant in China.

The domain recently stopped forwarding to a forum and was parked during SEDO.

The volume is undisclosed.

The domain name was purebred in 1996.

The domain is now purebred during a Chinese domain name registrar, ename.com

Registrant Contact

Via: thedomains.com

 
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After Offering $400, Brian Fera Loses UDRP To Grab Two Letter Domain Wi.com - Brian Fera of Heppenheim, Germany, just lost its attempt to grab the two letter .com domain name of Wi.com in a UDRP The domain is owned by Media Options S.A.who was represented by Greenberg Lieberman, LLC, The three member panel of Tony Willoughby, The Hon Neil Brown Q.C. and Thomas Hoeren rejected the Complainant argument that its trademark in the term WICOM entitled it to Wi.com but not because it failed the Identical or Confusingly Similar requirement of a UDRP. Actually this panel, and maybe ... read more ...
 
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New Study: 88% of Startups Have .Com Domain Names: 41% Are "Invented Names" - A new study out today by Clutch, a Washington, DC-based research firm, whose domain name is Clutch.co, shows that 41% of newer, venture-funded startups have invented names, almost three times the amount of invented names in comparison to other high growth companies. “The influx of invented names could be in response to the desire for a dot-com domain extension. Clutch’s data showed that 88% of startups have .com domain names.” “However, with various alternate domain options, some emphasize ... read more ...
 
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New Lender For Domain Names: Lendvo.com - There is a new lender for domain names, Lendvo.com. The founders of the company are Ben Lichtman and Patrick Izzo Making loans on domain names is only one of Lendvo.com products which include loans on income producing websites, buying out installment sales of domain names or leased domains, factoring and business loans. Here is how the company describe itself: “Lendvo is a Alternative Lending and Financial Technology startup headquartered in Alexandria, VA. At Lendvo we believe that eCommerce ... read more ...
 
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Australia's Domain Administration (auDA) Proposes To Allow Direct .au Registrations - According to smh.com.au, folowing the led of New Zealand and the Britain,  Australia’s regulatory body for domain names, .au Domain Administration (auDA), recently announced its 2015 Names Policy Panel proposal that individuals and entities should be allowed to register domain names directly under .au, for example www.abc.au in addition to .com.au Under the proposal, domains ending with com.au, net.au etc would remain available but direct registrations under .au “would create more options” “They ... read more ...