‘The Domain’ trademark application denied; Popular domain blog is safe

The trademark application for ‘The Domain’ has been denied, after it was deemed to cause confusion.   According to the USPTO: “Trademark Act Section 2(d) bars registration of an applied-for mark that so resembles a registered mark that it is likely that a potential consumer would be confused, mistaken, or deceived as to the source […]

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TheDomains rolls out a ‘comment guidelines’ policy for trolls

The popular domain blog, TheDomains, attracts a large amount of commentary on its posts daily. Along with constructive responses and opinionated comments comes a small amount of troll-induced commentary, aimed at provoking the blog’s operator, Mike Berkens, and the readers of TheDomains. Mike’s one of the nicest people in the domain industry, and he puts […]

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BuyDomains shocker: “TheDomains.com may be for sale”

A shocking domain lander at the popular domain marketplace, BuyDomains, leaves nothing to the imagination: “TheDomains.com may be for sale.” In a day that many domain sales occur behind closed doors, hundreds of domains change hands in private transactions, for millions of dollars. But how much is TheDomains.com worth? According to domain estimation tool, Valuate.com, that […]

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Strange outage: The Domains is down

Update 11:30pm: The Domains is now accessible. Yay! 😀 For some unknown reason, Mike Berkens’s blog – TheDomains – is currently down. There is no indication of whether it’s a scheduled downtime, and no tweets about it either. According to Down for Everyone or Just me, the site is down. Mike posted an interesting article […]

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Francois Carrillo adds Stock Quotes – Steals Mike Berkens’ thunder

French domainer entrepreneur, Francois Carrillo runs the popular domain blog aggregator, Domaining.com Being ingenious, Francois noticed how popular domainer, Mike Berkens often lists stock quote fluctuations at his blog, TheDomains.com “I saw opportunity get traffic, easy widget, et voila, install it and get clicks from Yahoo, Demand Media, Google and of course Verisign – absolument!”, […]

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