FadiChehade.com registered today, but not by new ICANN CEO.
ICANN announced this morning that software executive Fadi Chehadé would be its new CEO come October.
Naturally, the first thing I did was look up his presence on the web.
Here’s his LinkedIn profile.
Here’s his domain name, FadiChehade.com.
Did you click on his domain name? If so, you noticed he doesn’t own it.
It was registered this morning by Theo Geurts. And Geurts says he got the idea from me based on my article about Rod Beckstrom’s whois information before he became CEO of ICANN.
It seems that he’s willing to hand the domain over to Chehade, giving him a (perhaps) warm welcome to the domain investor community.
Checking out the history of the domain, it was previously registered to a different Fadi Chehadé who let the domain expire.
The IDN version of Chehade’s name, FadiChehadé.com, appears to be unregistered.
theo says
seems you did the same thing me as me as a domainer.
Cept in my case i noticed at the given moment the domain name was not registered.
It is not the first time i register the a domain name based on the moment.
Few months ago i did the same thing for http://www.intonation-network.com
It’s all about education 🙂
And the guys from http://www.intonation-network.com got the none hyphen version for free.
so they got a crash course in domaining 🙂
Rinse and repeat.
Jeff Schneider says
We all know the need for more meaningful protections for Virtual Business Foundation owners, than the current UDRP Scam ! This should not be as hard as everyone thinks ??
ICANN needs trust in their system more than whats currently available. The whole Industry can escape having its foundational Trust in the secondary markets Integrity in shambles. A solid Secondary Market is in their Best Interests, you would think??? Or do they have alterior motives?
Our Industry Leaders need to Flesh them out on this issue= Big Time !
Gratefully, Jeff Schneider (Contact Group) (Metal Tiger)
3 ring circus says
Oh yeah, looks like we are off to a good start!
What a bunch of .Turkeys!
Kevin Murphy says
Did you check every TLD, Andrew?
Andrew Allemann says
@ Kevin Murphy — all the TLDs DomainTools shows. I take it you found something?
mediclorianer says
i guess you are blind
1 why he should register .com ? .com is communism !!!
2 his name is an IDN name ( Chehadé ) it is NOT Chehade !!
3 the internet ( www ) isn’t equal to all letters
you wanna see what is mad ?
A = is not english – it,s latin
B = is not english – it,s latin
C = is not english – it,s latin
1 = is not english – it,s arabic
2 = is not english – it,s arabic
3 = is not english – it,s arabic
Eppur si muove…
☆ a.com = a.com ( latin a ) REGULAR
☆ а.com = xn--80a.com ( cyrillic a) IDN
☆ α.com = xn--mxa.com ( greek alpha ) IDN
☆ ɑ.com = xn--kna.com ( latin alpha ) IDN