Tag Archives: moniker

Thu 17th May 2012
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Moniker Spring auction results - Moniker auction nets close to $20,000 in sales. The Moniker Premium Spring Auction at SnapNames just concluded. Here are the (unofficial) results: drivinggloves.com 6450 – this is a recently developed site. Auction included Facebook page (with 2,000+ likes) and Twitter handle. florists.info 3050 – good keyword, but not a bad price given how marketplace for secondary TLDs like this will change in coming years. loaninterestrates.com 2000 obese.net 1650 – 5 bidders ... read more ...
Fri 7th October 2011
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Large Moniker Client Sues Over Expired Domains - Company says Moniker didn’t appropriately notify it of expiring domain names. [Update: see Moniker Oversee.net comment below] A large client of domain name registrar Moniker has sued the company and parent company Oversee.net over alleged shenanigans with expired domain names. Mainstream Advertising, Inc. filed the suit (pdf) claiming breach of contract, conversion, unjust enrichment, and unfair competition. The company started using Moniker in 2005 and claims that ... read more ...
Tue 4th October 2011
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Monte Cahn Calls Oversee’s Motion to Dismiss “Boilerplate” - Judge again to decide on motion to dismiss some of Cahn’s claims against his former employer. Monte Cahn has responded (pdf) to Oversee.net’s Motion to Dismiss certain claims in his case against his former employer. Cahn’s lawyers write: “As this is Oversee’s second Motion to Dismiss, Oversee has defaulted to boilerplate, insubstantial objections to Cahn’s claims.” The judge struck many of Cahn’s claims in Oversee.net’s previous motion to dismiss. ... read more ...
Tue 27th September 2011
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Moniker Accepting Submissions for Premium Year-End Auction - Company to hold month long auction with just 50 domains. Moniker is holding a premium domain name auction starting next month that will be limited to 50 top domains. The auction will run for a full month beginning October 1820. Domain submissions are due by October 13. The company is looking for good 1-2 word generic domain names or 1-4 character domains. If Moniker does this right I think it could be a good opportunity for sellers. The company has had a solid year ... read more ...
Mon 26th September 2011
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Oversee.net Blasts Monte Cahn’s Amended Lawsuit - Oversee.net continues to say lawsuit with Monte Cahn is merely about contract claims. Oversee.net has filed a motion to dismiss (pdf) numerous claims in Monte Cahn’s second amended lawsuit. The motion to dismiss starts out with this telling line: “Apparently, the third time is not the charm.” The second amended lawsuit was the third complaint brought by Cahn. Oversee.net claims Cahn’s latest complaint is “fundamentally flawed”. It asks the court to dismiss ... read more ...
Mon 19th September 2011
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Lots of Bids With One Day to Go in Moniker Auction - Moniker auction attracting lots of bids with one more day left. 28 domain names in Moniker’s DOMAINfest Meet-Up NYC auction have received bids with still one day to go, although only 14 domain names have met their reserves. The auction is taking place on SnapNames. The top domain to meet its reserve so far is Teeb.com at $5,250 with 4 bidders. Hardcore.com has a bid of $125,000 but it has a reserve of up to $250,000. Some of the domains that have met their reserves ... read more ...
Thu 8th September 2011
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Monte Cahn Updates Lawsuit Against Oversee.net with New Details - Cahn claims company deliberately shifted Moniker’s revenue to other Oversee.net entities. Monte Cahn has filed an amended complaint (pdf) against Oversee.net after a judge tossed out many of his original claims against his former employer. The amended complaint includes new details regarding how Oversee.net allegedly affected Moniker’s revenues after the acquisition. First, Cahn explains that the acquisition violated Oversee.net’s advertising agreement with ... read more ...
Wed 7th September 2011
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UBM Confirms Data.com Domain Name Sale during $4.5 Million - Financial report mentions sale of “portfolio” of domains for $4.5 million. We basically already knew that Salesforce.com paid $4.5 million for the domain name Data.com. But if you’re looking for a little bit more proof of the transaction price, you’ll find it in the seller’s 2011 first half financial report. On page 35 of UBM Plc’s report it states: On 2 June 2011, the Group sold a portfolio of domain names for total consideration of $4.5m (£2.8m). ... read more ...
Thu 25th August 2011
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Moniker Privacy Services Named in Lawsuit Against Top Porn Site - More proof that providing whois proxy services isn’t free. Remember when a Miami blog suggested that Moniker provided child porn? Now Moniker is named in another porn lawsuit (pdf), and it appears the lawyers filing the case are confused. But it’s another example of why I say providing whois privacy isn’t free. Adult movie producer Fraserside, a division of publicly traded company Private Media Group Inc., sued “Moniker Privacy Services, dba DrTuber.com” ... read more ...
Sun 31st July 2011
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Monte Cahn: Acquisition of Moniker Violated Google Contract - Moniker founder says Oversee.net contract with Google violated in Moniker acquisition. Monte Cahn has filed a response (pdf) to Oversee.net’s motion to dismiss certain claims he brought against his former employer. One of the more interesting claims in his response relates to the Moniker acquisition from Seevast and how it may have violated Oversee.net’s contract with ad provider Google: Additionally, since filing the First Amended Complaint, it has come to our ... read more ...
Thu 23rd June 2011
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Monte Cahn Adds Allegations to Complaint Against Oversee.net - Cahn adds allegations and drops one claim. Moniker founder Monte Cahn has filed an amended lawsuit against Oversee.net, which purchased Moniker in 2007 from Seevast. Cahn sued Oversee claiming that he was not properly paid under a $13 million incentive plan. Oversee has asked for most of the case to be dismissed on the grounds that it’s a simple contract dispute. [Update: Moniker has released the following statement to DNW: “This is a legal matter that is now ... read more ...
Tue 21st June 2011
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My Picks for a Moniker Extended Auction Ending Wednesday - The good and the bad in auction ending tomorrow. The DOMAINfest Barcelona extended Moniker domain auction on SnapNames with nearly 500 domain names concludes Wednesday. Domains range in price from no reserve to nearly $6.5 million for WorkatHome.com. Intriguingly missing from the auction is Social.com, which received a $2.5 million bid during the live auction. Some of the notable low six figure domains include Invites.com, Frame.com, Skills.com, Dorms.com There are ... read more ...
 
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$2.6 Million Social.com Sale Could Make Moniker Auction a Big One - Pending sale would give Moniker one of its biggest auctions ever. I’ve been tracking the potential sale of Social.com for a couple weeks now. The domain name was listed in Moniker’s live domain name auction for Barcelona (which actually ended up taking place online only last week). A legitimate $2.5 million dollar bid was placed in the auction, and sources tell me there may have been other interested parties. Then the domain was omitted from the extended auction ... read more ...
Wed 15th June 2011
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Moniker Auction Sells Another 5 Domains Plus Data.com - Houses.co.uk leads premium domain name auction. Moniker’s “make up” auction from last week’s Barcelona conference has found a home for five more domains on top of the multi-million dollar sale of Data.com to Salesforce.com. Data.com was pulled from the auction after Salesforce.com made a significant offer on the domain name. The sales included: Houses.co.uk $50,870 Gado.com $3,000 SEMexpert.com $600 SEOagencies.com $900 Pilsners.co.uk $300 It’s worth noting ... read more ...
Tue 14th June 2011
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My Picks for Moniker Premium Auction Ending Wednesday - Some picks — including some big ones — for Wednesday’s auction. Moniker’s premium domain name auction, which was moved to an online-only event after technical problems in Barcelona last week, ends on Wednesday at 3:15 PM ET. As with recent auctions, I think some of the activity will take place outside the auction. We’ve already seen the monster sale of Data.com to Salesforce.com before the auction even started. All we know for sure is that the sales ... read more ...
Wed 8th June 2011
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Technical Problems Postpone Moniker Auction - Auction postponed after web sites go down. If you tried to reach most of Oversee.net’s web sites this morning — Oversee.net, SnapNames, or Moniker — you probably ran into difficulty. The timing couldn’t have been worse for the company, which was scheduled to run a live domain name auction from Barcelona this morning U.S. time. The company has officially announced that the auction will be postponed, but the new date hasn’t been set. This isn’t the first ... read more ...
Tue 24th May 2011
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Publicly Traded UBM Adds Data.com to Moniker Auction - Data.com to highlight upcoming live domain name auction in Barcelona, Spain. [Update: Salesforce.com bought the domain name ahead of the auction.] Publicly traded media company UBM plc has added its Data.com domain name to Moniker’s upcoming live domain name auction in Barcelona. The reserve price is between $1 million and $5 million. This is a fantastic domain name, especially with the “Big Data” trend in enterprise business. Although the domain names are ... read more ...
Tue 8th February 2011
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Observations from Moniker’s Live Auction - Why sales were low and what it says about the current state of domain name auctions. Moniker’s live auctions (low no reserve and premium) last week sold just over $400,000 of domain names. The top seller was Won.com at $115,000. This is obviously a low number. I have two observations from the results: 1. A lot of these domains would have sold for much more back in 2007. Check these out: TrafficJam.com $11,500 OfficePark.com $6,000 Exhausted.com $2,000 All ... read more ...
Tue 25th January 2011
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Moniker Auction Bulks Up By Slimming Down - Fewer domains, better quality on tap for next live domain auction. This headline may seem contradictory. But it aptly describes the change Moniker has made with its live auctions of late, and it’s very apparent with February’s DOMAINfest Auction. What’s the change? Fewer domains. Better quality. The Premium Live auction on February 3 will have no more than 100 domains and should take less than two hours to complete. (Only 90 minutes is scheduled, but you ... read more ...
Tue 4th January 2011
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My Thoughts on a Moniker Whois Privacy Incident - It’s an unfortunate incident. Not a scandal. I’ve waited a few days to write about the Moniker whois privacy flap. My first reaction was that this whole thing was being blown way out of proportion, so I wanted to wait and see how I felt in a few days. But I still feel the same way. What happened I really don’t know all the details behind what happened. What I can gather from reading this blog entry is that an Oversee.net employee found out who owned a domain ... read more ...
Fri 17th December 2010
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Afternic Premium Now Works with eNom and Moniker - Afternic “turns on” its two new partners, giving domain name owners access to a powerful sales network. Yesterday I wrote about my success with Go Daddy Premium Listings. The only downside to the service is that your domain names have to be at Go Daddy. But there’s good news for domainers who want to get similar reach for domains that are currently at Moniker and eNom — those two registrars are now active with Afternic’s Premium listing service. What This ... read more ...
Tue 12th October 2010
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Moniker Prague auction Ends Wednesday, Monthly Auction Kicks Off - One big domain name auction ends and another begins. Moniker’s extended auction from DOMAINfest Prague ends Wednesday, and SnapNames’ October Showcase Auction is underway and includes 16 three letter .com domain names. The extended auction includes 890 domain names with starting bids and reserves ranging from $300 up to $6,470,590 for WorkatHome.com. A handful of domains have bids, most notably supplement.com for $61,330. AppetizerRecipes.com has a $3,050 ... read more ...
Sat 25th September 2010
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Moniker and SnapNames Get New Web Sites - Sites get consistent look and UI upgrades. Moniker and SnapNames will receive a facelift with improved user interfaces and clean designs on Monday evening. I took the new designs for a test spin yesterday, and it certainly appears to be a big improvement over the old designs. Oversee.net acquired the two companies in separate transactions over the past few years. The companies have done some work to integrate the two, but this is the first bottom-up redesign to ... read more ...
Tue 21st September 2010
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DOMAINfest Announces Prague Party Locations - Networking and partying gets underway in a couple weeks in Czech Republic. DOMAINfest has announced that it will hold networking events and parties at two exclusive locations during October’s event in Prague. On October 6, Moniker and SnapNames have obtained exclusive use of the National Museum in Prague’s Vaclavske Square for a dinner party. It’s the oldest and largest museum in the Czech Republic. On October 7, DomainSponsor will host a dinner and party at ... read more ...
 
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HP Puts Digital.com Domain Name on a Auction Block - Digital.com goes up for sale. Technology giant HP is offering the domain name Digital.com for sale, but it’s going to cost you. The domain name has been listed in Moniker’s upcoming live domain name auction taking place in Prague October 6. Reserve price: somewhere between $1 million and $5 million. HP got the domain name when it acquired Compaq. Moniker will auction off 80 other domain names during its DOMAINfest conference live domain name auction. Among ... read more ...