michael berkens

On this day back in 2015 Michael Berkens announced that he sold the majority of his portfolio to GoDaddy. (171 comments). At the time Michael could not give numbers but after things settled the numbers came out, DomainInvesting.com covered the purchase price of $35.5 Million. The credit goes to...

On this day back in 2015 Michael Berkens announced that he sold the majority of his portfolio to GoDaddy. (171 comments). At the time Michael could not give numbers but after things settled the numbers came out, DomainInvesting.com covered the purchase price of $35.5 Million. The credit goes to...

So you may have watched my talk from the Asheville Conference on Morgan's blog, if not you can watch it below. So to follow up on my new gTLD presentation at Rick's Asheville Conference where I said Geo extensions are death here are some stats from .Miami domains I … [Read more...]

So you may have watched my talk from the Asheville Conference on Morgan's blog, if not you can watch it below. So to follow up on my new gTLD presentation at Rick's Asheville Conference where I said Geo extensions are death here are some stats from .Miami domains I … [Read more...]

Three years ago today, GoDaddy's NameFind purchased the portfolio of Michael Berkens' Most Wanted Domains. Michael made one of the biggest splashes of 2015 by announcing that he sold the majority of his portfolio to GoDaddy, close to 70,000 domain names. Adult names and new gtlds were not...

Three years ago today, GoDaddy's NameFind purchased the portfolio of Michael Berkens' Most Wanted Domains. Michael made one of the biggest splashes of 2015 by announcing that he sold the majority of his portfolio to GoDaddy, close to 70,000 domain names. Adult names and new gtlds were not...

As industry Twitter users will no doubt already be aware, Berkens’ account @TheDomains came under the control of an unknown hacker on Friday last week.The suit, which also names (as Does) the unknown hackers, has nine counts ranging from computer fraud to trademark infringement to negligence and...

As industry Twitter users will no doubt already be aware, Berkens’ account @TheDomains came under the control of an unknown hacker on Friday last week.The suit, which also names (as Does) the unknown hackers, has nine counts ranging from computer fraud to trademark infringement to negligence and...

In a nutshell Domain Sherpa (Michael Cyger) removed all the video interviews of Rick schwartz (domain king) and Michael berkens (Thedomain) from the site. Rick and Mike are very upset and want answers, but domain Sherpa hasn't responded to them except for a tweet in the middle of Rick's Twitter...

In a nutshell Domain Sherpa (Michael Cyger) removed all the video interviews of Rick schwartz (domain king) and Michael berkens (Thedomain) from the site. Rick and Mike are very upset and want answers, but domain Sherpa hasn't responded to them except for a tweet in the middle of Rick's Twitter...

Publicly traded company Blucora, Inc. were the buyers and the domain name began forwarding (redirecting) to HowStuffWorks.com. Blucora Inc. was InfoSpace.com until switching names to Blucora Inc. in 2012 and InfoSpace became a subsidiary of Blucora. Blucora had recently acquired How Stuff Works...

Publicly traded company Blucora, Inc. were the buyers and the domain name began forwarding (redirecting) to HowStuffWorks.com. Blucora Inc. was InfoSpace.com until switching names to Blucora Inc. in 2012 and InfoSpace became a subsidiary of Blucora. Blucora had recently acquired How Stuff Works...

.Web in my opinion since the announcement of the new gTLD program has been the only possible new gTLD that could possibly threaten the original Top Level Domain’s market share; .com, .net and.org.I would argue Verisign getting .web (which they did not apply for) was simply a brilliant move and I...

.Web in my opinion since the announcement of the new gTLD program has been the only possible new gTLD that could possibly threaten the original Top Level Domain’s market share; .com, .net and.org.I would argue Verisign getting .web (which they did not apply for) was simply a brilliant move and I...

Michael Berkens bought Stock.photo for $16k. He had the plural! Sold the pair to Richard Lau for $60k! Amazing! Check out the news on Namescon

Michael Berkens bought Stock.photo for $16k. He had the plural! Sold the pair to Richard Lau for $60k! Amazing! Check out the news on Namescon