Rightside Group LTD (NASDAQ: NAME) launched the .GAMES domain extension today. The Sunrise Phase where trademark holders could preregister names, .GAMES became Rightside’s number-one performing new top level-domain (TLD), seeing applications from…
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.
.NYC to Hold 1st Ever Premium Name Domain Name Auction of 20 .NYC Domain Names
.NYC announced it would be holding its 1st premium domain auction to begin on October 24th. Only businesses, organizations and individuals with a physical address in the five boroughs are eligible to…
TV Station Loses Bid To Get WDBJ.com Domain Name Through UDRP
Gray Television Group, Inc. just lost a UDRP in an attempt to grab the domain name wdbj.com. The Complainant is the owner of numerous television stations in the United States, including WDBJ…
Frank Schilling’s North Sound Names Starts Deleting Its 230,000 Uniregistry Domains
On Thursday Frank Schilling North Sound Names started to delete the registrations for the approximately 230,000 domain names it registered in Uniregistry new gTLD extensions. Yesterday over 100,000 domain names owned by…
Every Vote Counts: Former Godaddy Counsel Christine Jones Loses Election For Congress By 27 Votes
Christine Jones the former chief counsel for Godaddy has lost her bid to become the Republican nominee for the US Congress by just 27 votes. After the election it looked like Ms….
GOP Senators Issue Statement Against ICANN October 1 Oversight Transition
U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), Richard Burr (R-N.C.), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), James Lankford (R-Okla.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska),…
.SHOP Grossed Over $2 Million With 2K Domain Registrations 1/2 Way Through EAP
GMO Registry, Inc. the registry operator for .Shop, announced today that new top level domain has already grossed over $2 million dollars in revenue with close to 2,000 registrations, mid-way through the…