Donuts has become the 1st new gTLD registry to join the Internet Commerce Association (ICA) as a Silver member. The ICA is a non-profit advocating for the rights and interests of domain…
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.
Frank Schilling On New gTLD’s and The Value of .Com In The Years Ahead
Frank Schilling in a comment to our post on .Bank getting 5,500 applications, had a very interesting comment: “”IMO Dot Com will still be the largest individual TLD, but many, many viable…
UDRP Filed on The 25 Year Old Domain Name Cambridge.com By University of Cambridge
The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Cambridge has filed a UDRP on the domain name Cambridge.com. The domain is owned by Kirkland Holdings LLC of Brookline MA since March…
BMW Files UDRP on The Domain Hack B.MW
BMW has filed a UDRP seeking control of the domain name hack B.MW with the World Intellectual Property Organization WIPO. .MW is the country code (ccTLD) for Malawi. According to the whois…
API.Info Lost in UDRP
Colegio Oficial de Agentes de La Propiedad Inmobiliaria de Barcelona of Barcelona, Spain, just won control of the domain name API.info Most of us in the tech space know API to stand…
Verisign: Brands Are Keeping Their .Com: Don’t See Anybody Abandoning .Com for .Brand or Another TLD.”
In the Verisign earnings call yesterday the following question was asked by Fred Ziegel, Topeka Capital Markets. Fred Ziegel (Analyst – Topeka Capital Markets): “In your .brand customer base that you are…
Verisign Reports: Revenue up 4.9%: 133.5 Million Registered .Com/.Net Domains
VeriSign, Inc. (VRSN), the operator of the .com and .net registry reported financial results for the second quarter of 2015 reporting revenue of $263 million for the second quarter of 2015, up…