As we reported about 10 days ago a online gambling group called for a boycott of all things Kentucky. A fellow domainer, Jeffrey Reynolds, Ph.D, started a website BoycottKentucky.com, where is now…
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.
Directi Takes Down 175,000 Domains; Turns Privacy Off For More Than 500,000 Domains
Directi.com an ICANN accredited registrar announced on its blog last week that is had suspended 175,000 domain names for “Registrar Abuse”. “””””Directi, has have recently taken to track down and stop abusive…
WSJ: Don’t Use Three Letter Domains For Your Site
It’s always interesting to get a non-domainer perspective on domains. Certainly values of domains ultimately depend in large part to end users. The Wall Street Journal Blog had a discussion on selecting…
Will VeriSign Be Able to Charge Preimum Prices for .Com?
In a post by George Kirikos on his blog CircleID, looking at the draft of the rules for the new Generic Top-level domains (gTLD) a provision in the rules, Mr. Kirikos thinks…
4 Domains Top $5K Each Today at NameJet.com
Four domains sold at Namejet.com off our watch list for over $5K each. Nice to see in another terrible day in the stock market and in the face of continuing bad economic…
Gaming Group Asks Appeals Court To Throw Out Kentucky Domain Seziure Order
The Interactive Media and Entertainment and Gaming Association (iMEGA), filed a Petition in the Kentucky Court of Appeals asking the appellate court to throw out the original seizure notice dated September 18th…
Business Week Covers .Tel: How Telnic Will Revolutionize Dialing
An online article just published by Business Week gave glowing reviews to the idea of the new .Tel extension. Some of the more interesting comments from the article are: .Tel will allow…