According to a story published today Sun Microsystems acquired the domain “network.com” when its purchased a company, StorageTek. For a year or so, the domain has been the portal to Sun’s internet-based…
Author: Michael Berkens
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 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.
Zappy Interviewed By Israel’s “Globes” Business Publication
Globes Online, a business pubication in Israel published a story and interview with, Mike “Zappy” Zapolin, one of the most successful domainers in the industry. The interview covers many of Zappy’s success…
YouTube Hits 100 Million Viewers a Month
According to comScore: Google reached a record 100.5 million unique video viewers in October, up from 83.7 million six months ago. YouTube drew 99.5 million of those viewers. Hulu reached 24.0 million…
With Its Business Ethics Called Into Question, GoDaddy Shoots SuperBowl Commericals & Plans The Party Of The Year
After last weeks, revelation in the domainnamewire.com that Godaddy is warehousing domains, and our discussion of how this action is jeopardizing the whole domain industry, now we see where some of the…
First iPhone Domain Registration App Released
I Want My Name, a domain registration and management platform from ideegeo Group LTD, released the first iPhone application which allows domain registration on the go. The iWantMyName DomainApp is a free…
Last Chance To Comment To ICANN On Proposed gTLD’s
The comment period for the proposed gTLD’s has been extended until next Monday December 15th. Yesterday in a post entitled “Why Domaining Sucks”, my friend Sahar posted as reason number 3 “We…
Dell Switching From Google To Microsoft’s Live?
Since mid 2006, new PCs from Dell have come pre-installed with a search toolbar from Google, and Microsoft’s IE web browser with google.com preset as the default search engine. ZDnet’s Mary Jo…