Yesterday, September 1, 2016, was the first day of the Early Access Program (EAP) for .Shop. I found six .Shop domain registrations that were made on September 1 by 4 brand-holders. It’s…
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.
DOJ Says .Com Price Cap Will Remain At $7.85 Until 2024
The Department of Justice in a letter sent on August 31stto Senator Cruz and his colleagues in response to their August 12th letter inquiring on antitrust and Verisign after the transition and…
Namejet.com Reports $570K in Sales In August
Namejet.com released all of its sales for August 2016 of $2,000 or more which totaled just under $570,000. Only those domains that were paid for by August 31 were included in the…
Sabal Capital Management Reduces It Stake In Rightside by 10%
According to tradecalls.com; Sabal Capital Management reduced its stake in Rightside Group Ltd by 10.0% during the most recent quarter end. The investment management company now holds a total of 312,868 shares…
Verisign Announces Korean .닷컴 and .닷넷 Domains Are Now Available for General Registration
Today, Verisign announce that .닷컴 and .닷넷, the localized versions of the .com and .net top-level domains (TLDs) in Hangul script, are now open for the registration of domain names by the…
AutoNews.com: Amazon May Roll Out Its Car Portal Using a New gTLD
According to AutoNews.com, Amazon launched Amazon Vehicles, a “car research portal where consumers can view and reviews of thousands of new and classic cars, while being able to upload photos and videos…
.Guru After Hitting a High of Almost 85K Domains is Now Under 60K
.Guru which hit a high of over 84,000 domain names on April 1, 2015 now has less than 60,000 domains. .Guru was the first new gTLD to hit 50,000 registrations back in…