Tag Archives: michael berkens

Wed 17th February 2016
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Did GoDaddy compensate $35.5 million for Michael Berkens' portfolio? - Maybe… GoDaddy released earnings today. Although the company doesn’t directly disclose how much the company paid for Michael Berkens’ Worldwide Media domain name portfolio, there’s a clue. As of the end of September, the company’s cash flow reconciliation included $30.7 million used for acquisitions. At the end of the year, the number spiked to $66.2 million. That’s a $35.5 million difference. This does not necessarily mean this was just for Berken’s portfolio. It could have included ... read more ...
Fri 20th June 2014
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Michael Berkens wins UDRP box involving dual colorful lawyers - Randazza and Berryhill square off over X-Videos.com. Two of the most colorful lawyers in the trademark/UDRP business squared off in a UDRP over one of Michael Berkens’ domain names. Marc Randazza’s law firm represented WGCZ S.R.O., which filed a UDRP over Berkens’ domain name X-Videos.com. John Berryhill represented Berkens. Anyone familiar with the work of Randazza and Berryhill would expect rather colorful submissions by each party. Indeed, the three person ... read more ...
Thu 24th October 2013
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Michael Berkens defends RoadWatch.com domain name in UDRP - Complainant loses all three prongs of case. Michael Berkens, who runs the domain name blog TheDomains.com, has successfully defended one of his company’s domain names in a UDRP. Commercial Vehicle Group, Inc filed a UDRP against the RoadWatch.com domain name, a domain that Berkens’ Worldwide Media has owned for about a decade. The complainant failed to even pass the first prong of a UDRP, that the domain name is similar to a mark in which the complainant has rights. ... read more ...
Tue 7th December 2010
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Michael Berkens and Howard Neu Team Up to Save Domain Name - Michael Berkens’ Worldwide Media, Inc., has successfully defended its CareFreeHomes.com domain name in a UDRP with the help of attorney Howard Neu. Complainant CareFree Homes II, L.P. doesn’t have a registered trademark for “CareFree Homes”, but it argued common law rights. The argument by the El Paso, Texas home builder was fairly weak. Summarizing the home builder’s failure to show any sort of common law mark, the panel wrote: The evidence offered by ... read more ...
Tue 9th June 2009
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Domain Industry Blog Watch - A look at what domain bloggers and news sites are writing about this week. Various domain news sites and bloggers have written some great articles this week that are worth referring to. Demand for new gTLDs – Michael Berkens beat me to writing a story about ICANN CEO Paul Twomey’s comments about new gTLD demand. Twomey refers to demand as demand by people who want to launch new TLDs, not people who want to actually register them. Change your Passwords – Elliot ... read more ...
Thu 23rd April 2009
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WorldWide Media Sues to Retain SmoothMove.com - Company sues to keep domain after surprise UDRP decision. Michael Berken’s company, WorldWide Media, Inc., has sued Traditional Medicinals Inc., in order to retain the domain name SmoothMove.com. Earlier this month, a National Arbitration Forum panel found that Worldwide Media must transfer its ownership of SmoothMove.com to Traditional Medicinals. Traditional Medicinals offers a laxative tea called Smooth Move. WorldWide Media, represented by attorney Ari Goldberger, ... read more ...
Thu 9th April 2009
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SmoothMove.com: Worst UDRP Decision Ever? - SmoothMove.com decision may not be worst, but it should be high on the list. My blood is boiling. I think I just read one of the worst UDRP arbitration decisions ever. Michael Berkens got screwed, and I hope he takes action. In this case, Berkens registered the domain name SmoothMove.com in 2003 and has parked it since then. All of the links have been generic in nature. Then along came Traditional Medicinals Inc, an herbal medicine company that happens to have ... read more ...