During the ICANN Meeting in Paris this week, ICANN annouced that it was seriously considering whether to opening up domain names to endless variations and approve hundreds of new extensions including .berlin, .paris,…
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.
Say Hello to .Tel
The newest Tld coming to market is .tel. Telnic Limited, the Registry Operator and Sponsoring Organization for the new sponsored top level domain .tel, today announced details for launch at the ICANN…
CORRECTION
In my initial post today on Domain Drop auction services , I INCORRECTLY identified Adam Strong as the employee of Godaddy which had placed bids on the Godaddy auction Platform. The correct…
Ethics of Domain Drop Auctions: TDNAM and NameJet called out Yesterday: Today We call out Tucows
Yesterday domainnamewire.com reported that employees of TDNAM.com and NameJet.com were allowed to bid on domains that were in their own company’s dropping auction service. In the article, domainnamewire.com sited some discussions on…
Yahoo Exec’s Vote on the Google Deal with their Feet and Run for the Door
It’s been a interesting week at Yahoo. According to reports many key executive are rushing to the exits at Yahoo. Qi Lu, an executive vice-president in charge of Yahoo’s search and advertising…
Domainer Meeting Paris Live Auction nets $361k
The live auction just completed in Paris and the auction netted $361,375 Here are the results: wrinklefreeclothes.com $200 phoneaccessories.com $25,000 parisguidebooks.com $100 oux.com $9,500 pariscams.com $1,500 appeler.fr $3,500 bavarian.com $9,000 assurancesvoiture.fr $3,500…
Paris Domainers Auction Friday Morning at 8 AM EST
As a reminder moniker.com is holding a live auction from the Domainers show in Paris on Friday starting at 8am EST, 5am PST. Online remote bidding is avaliable through snapnames.com, as long…