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'''Michael H. Berkens''' is the president of [[Worldwide Media]], Inc<ref>[http://www.elliotsblog.com/5-with-michael-berkins elliotsblog.com]</ref> and the editor in chief of [[TheDomains.com]]<ref>[http://www.thedomains.com/about-us/ thedomains.com]</ref> He is also the Co-Founder and Managing Director of [[Right of the Dot]].<ref>[http://www.theregistry.biz/2011/03/michael-h-berkens-co-founder-managing-director-dot-llc-discusses-gtlds-change-web/ theregistry.biz]</ref>
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'''Michael H. Berkens''' is the Co-Founder and President of [[Worldwide Media]], Inc<ref>[http://www.elliotsblog.com/5-with-michael-berkins elliotsblog.com]</ref> and the Editor-in-Chief of [[TheDomains.com]].<ref>[http://www.thedomains.com/about-us/ thedomains.com]</ref> He is also the Co-Founder and Managing Director of [[Right of the Dot]],<ref>[http://www.theregistry.biz/2011/03/michael-h-berkens-co-founder-managing-director-dot-llc-discusses-gtlds-change-web/ theregistry.biz]</ref> 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.<ref>[[ICANN 41]] Interview</ref>
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]].<ref>[http://rightofthedot.com/about/ rightofthedot.com]</ref>
Mr. Berkens has 15 years of experience in the Internet Industry. He is most known owning and operating retail domain sales site [[MostWantedDomains.com]].<ref>[http://rightofthedot.com/about/ rightofthedot.com]</ref>
Michael attends [[Business Constituency]] and [[RAR Constituency]] Meetings, as well as many domainer-related conferences.<ref>[[ICANN 41]] Interview</ref>
In a letter dated December 8th, 2011, Michael Berkens, along with twenty-seven other domain name industry representatives, wrote to Sen. Jay Rockefeller and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison to support [[ICANN]]'s new gTLD program, in response to the [[ICANN#New_gTLD_Senate_and_House_of_Representatives_Hearings|Senate Hearings]] taking place on the same day. They supported ICANN's argument that the program would be innovative and economically beneficial, and noted that the program took a diverse group of international stakeholders years to develop.<ref>[http://domainincite.com/new-gtld-industry-pleads-with-senators/ New gTLD industry pleads with senators, domainincite.com]</ref> The letter can be found [http://domainincite.com/docs/Senate-Letter-ICANN-Expansion-of-Top-Level-Domains-08.DEC.2011.pdf here].
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 [[domainer]]s [[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.<ref>[http://www.thedomains.com/2011/11/10/mostwanteddomains-com-brokers-the-sale-of-meet-me-for-a-world-record-price-of-450000/ MostWantedDomains.com Brokers the sale of Meet Me, TheDomains.com]</ref>
== 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>