Jason Cupp, creator of GoDrops.com, has done a great job over the last 18 or so months of not only providing a list of daily dropping domain names, but an exciting place to chat about them as well. I am proud to say that I am now an equal partner in the GoDrops business. I’m a big believer in drop domain names, making this site a perfect fit for me.

For the next two weeks I will be behind the scenes working with Jason to launch the all new version of GoDrops.com. Yes, the site is getting a complete makeover. Until then, business will be as usual.

Besides the redesign our plans are to include a daily host via video chat and premium memberships for $9.95 a month. Premium members will receive our handpicked drop lists 24 hours in advance. Free memberships will not change.

I believe the coming changes will help take the GoDrops.com to the next level and I am thrilled to be a part of it. There will be a press release soon as all the changes are made, so be sure to stay tuned!

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Meet Michael Berkens, 2009 Domainer of the Year, publisher of TheDomains.com and owner of roughly 75,000 domain names. WHOA, that’s an estimated $525,000 just in renewal fees every year. You can view and place offers on Michael’s domain names at MostWantedDomains.com.

Q. What is your educational background and do you believe this education helped you with your domain business?
A. I’m a graduate of the City University of New York Brooklyn College, I have a law degree from Stetson College of Law in St. Petersburg, Florida and a masters in Tax Law (LLM) from the University of Florida. A Legal education certainly helps in any business including this one, so yes I think it has helped me very much. I also have a ton of very good legal domains. But you certainly don’t have to have a formal education to be successful in this or any other business. You do have to keep yourself informed. You do need to keep learning. I’m constantly reading, watching TV, news, sports, seeing what’s new, going on, not only in the domain world and not only in the tech world, but in the overall economy and in pop culture, music, movies, TV, advertising, etc. The wider your knowledge, the broader your interests, the better your going to do. Pay attention to whats going on and opportunities will present themselves.

Q. As you mentioned in the previous question, you have a law degree. What is your field of expertise and do you still hold an active practice?
A. I stopped actively practicing law 15 years ago or even more. When I did practice I did mostly business and corporate law. While I was still practicing, Judi and I got into the 800/900 business and we produced TV commercials, bought ads on national TV and in most of the top media markets everyday, so I started to slowly wind down the practice, stopped taking any new clients and then gave it up completely. I’m still a member of the Florida Bar, but inactive.
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For all of my international readers Thanksgiving is a harvest festival celebrated primarily in Canada and the United States. Traditionally, it is a time to give thanks for the harvest and express gratitude in general. FYI, Canada celebrated Thanksgiving on October 12th.

In the spirit of the holiday I have much to be thankful for. I’d like to thank my readers, friends, family, development team and advertisers.

I’m taking the rest of the day off to enjoy family time, turkey dinner and NFL football.

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Visiting Sedo.com today I found the sale of Russia.com for $1.5 million under recent sales.

The current whois information is with Sedo. Using DomainTools history search I was able to find out that the previous owner was NewMedia Holdings, Inc.

NewMedia portfolio consists of domain names like…

• PuertoRico.com
• Scotland.com
• Birds.com
• Airplanes.com
• many more premium domains

Russia.com $1.500,000
Google Results: Ranks 3rd for “Russia”
Google Page Rank: 6
Compete.com Traffic: 8,723 Unique and Total Visits
Alexa Rank: 168,693

Congratulations to the buyer and seller.

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Clear your schedule today for 2pm Eastern time so that you can join me in a live video chat session over at GoDrops.com. I’ll be available to talk for an hour during today’s drop domain name session. So come with your questions and comments. I’ll be ready.

There is another fun element to this you might want to get in on. You can have a chance to win the Domain Name Grabbber software (value $129) by going to GoDrops.com and tweeting out the post titled “This Wednesday’s Giveaway Contest!”. I’ll be announcing the winner for that contest during the chat in addition to giving away some GoDaddy gift cards.

It should be fun. Make sure to stop by and see me!

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