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== Awards and Honors ==
== Awards and Honors ==
*Michael was voted to be the 2009 Domainer of the Year
*Michael was voted the 2009 Domainer of the Year
*He has been interviewed and quoted by the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, the Miami Herald and USA Today.<ref>[http://www.dot-nxt.com/moderator/michael-berkins dot-nxt.com]</ref>
*He has been interviewed and quoted by the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, the Miami Herald and USA Today.<ref>[http://www.dot-nxt.com/moderator/michael-berkins dot-nxt.com]</ref>



Revision as of 22:57, 10 November 2011

Country: USA
Email: mike [at] rightofthedot.com
Website:

   [TheDomains.com TheDomains.com]

Facebook:    [TheDomains Facebook Michael H. Berkens]
Twitter:    @berkens

Michael H. Berkens is the Co-Founder and President of Worldwide Media, Inc[1] and the Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com.[2] He is also the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Right of the Dot,[3] which he founded in January, 2011 with Monte Cahn. He is a domainer and owns approximately 75k domains, as well as a blogger, consultant, and attorney.[4]

Mr. Berkens has 15 years of experience in the Internet Industry. He is well-known owning and operating the retail domain sales site MostWantedDomains.com.[5]

Michael attends Business Constituency and RAR Constituency Meetings, as well as many domainer-related conferences.[6]

He is married to Judi Ann Berkens.

Notable Domain Achievements

In November, 2011 he announced that his company, MostWantedDomains.com, brokered the sale of "meet.me" for $450,000; he believes that this represents an all time sales record for the .me domain space. The domain, among with others like it such as date.me, love.me, and marry.me, were jointly purchased by his company, Worldwide Media Inc., and prominent domainers Rick Schwartz, and Ammar Kubba. They purchased the domain for $5,890 at a silent auction at a prior T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference. He lauded the fact that he had effectively raised the prices of other, premium .me domains, and pointed to continuing opportunity for domainers and developers in the post-.com era.[7]

Awards and Honors

  • Michael was voted the 2009 Domainer of the Year
  • He has been interviewed and quoted by the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, the Miami Herald and USA Today.[8]

Education

Mr. Berkens is a graduate of the City University of New York at Brooklyn College (BA), Stetson College of law (JD), and the University Of Florida (LLM).[9]

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