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Mon 19th September 2011
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Breaking: NBC Transfers Women.com to Done! Ventures in Lawsuit Settlement - Busted seven figure domain name deal comes to resolution. It looks like the end result of a legal battle over Women.com has ended with the transfer of the domain name to Done! Ventures. Done! Ventures thought it had a deal to purchase Women.com and Women.net from NBC Universal for $1 million last year. But then NBC allegedly backed out when its then President CEO Jeff Zucker apparently vetoed the deal. Done sued NBC to get it to go through with the sale. It later ... read more ...
Fri 5th August 2011
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Depositions Begin in Women.com Case with Sedo and NBC Universal - Representatives of domain broker and NBC to be questioned over failed transaction. Depositions will begin next week in a lawsuit over a failed transaction for Women.com and Women.net. The suit was originally brought by DONE! Ventures against NBC Universal after the latter allegedly failed to complete a sale agreement for the domain names for $1 million. Sedo was later added to the suit for failing to enforce the agreement. Next week in Boston Kathy Nielson, Jeremiah ... read more ...
Tue 7th June 2011
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Sedo Asks Court to Dismiss Women.com Lawsuit on Jurisdiction Claims - Domain broker says lawsuit should not be heard in California. Done! Ventures has fought and won a jurisdiction battle in its lawsuit over Women.com already. Now it has to gear up for another fight. Sedo, which was recently added to the lawsuit originally filed against GE/NBC Universal for a failed transaction to purchase Women.com and Women.net, has asked the court to dismiss the case on jurisdiction grounds (pdf). According to Sedo’s court filing, Done! Ventures ... read more ...
Tue 17th May 2011
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Sedo Sued for $10 Million for Failing to Enforce Women.com Transaction with NBC Universal - Domain broker added to suit over failed Women.com transaction. DONE! Ventures has added domain name broker Sedo to its lawsuit over a failed transaction for Women.com. DONE! sued NBC Universal last year after it alleged the media giant failed to follow through with a transaction to sell Women.com and Women.net for $1 million. According to the suit, NBC Universal’s CEO at the time Jeff Zucker vetoed the deal after it had been agreed to. Sedo broker Jeff Gabriel ... read more ...
Mon 7th March 2011
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Judge Sets Trial Date In Women.com Case - Judge plans on December trial over failed domain name transaction. U.S. District Judge James Otero has set a December 13 jury trial date in Done! Ventures, LLC v. General Electric Company, et al. The case pits a small California company run by Ben Padnos against NBC Universal over a failed transaction involving Women.com. Padnos says that NBC agreed to sell him Women.com and Women.net for $1 million and has documentation from broker Sedo to prove it. But the documentation ... read more ...
Sun 23rd January 2011
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Judge Issues Rulings in Lawsuit Over Women.com - Both sides in case have something to be happy (and upset) about after judge issues rulings on motions. A federal district judge has denied motions by both the plaintiff and the defendant in a lawsuit over the failed sale of Women.com. Done! Ventures says it made a $1 million offer for Women.com and Women.net via Sedo that was accepted by NBC Universal. After NBC Universal allegedly backed out of the deal, Done! Ventures filed a lawsuit to force the company to complete ... read more ...
Tue 21st September 2010
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DONE! Ventures Calls B.S. on NBC Over Women.com Deal - Company continues push to make NBC honor sale of Women.com and .net. DONE! Ventures has filed an opposition (pdf) to NBC Universal’s Motion to Dismiss its lawsuit over a failed transaction for Women.com and Women.net. DONE! had agreed to purchase the two domain names through NBC’s broker Sedo for $1 million. However, NBC backed out of the deal after it was allegedly vetoed by NBC Universal President CEO Jeff Zucker. DONE! sued to force NBC to complete the deal. NBC ... read more ...
Tue 31st August 2010
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NBC Tries to Wriggle Out Of $1 Million Women.com Sale - NBC wants lawsuit over domain name dismissed. NBC Universal has filed a motion to dismiss (pdf) a lawsuit filed by DONE! Ventures over DONE!’s failed purchase of Women.com. DONE! claims it had an agreement to buy women.com and women.net from NBC, and that NBC later backed out of the deal that was brokered by Sedo. NBC’s first line of defense is that it hadn’t reached an agreement with DONE! because communications only referred to Women.com, not .net — so ... read more ...
Wed 7th July 2010
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NBC Universal and DONE! Fight Over What to Do With Women.com - Domain name losing value as lawsuit works its way through the courts. DONE! Ventures lawsuit against NBC Universal and General Electric Company has been moved from state court to U.S. District Court, and there the parties are fighting over what to do with the domain names pending trial. As background, DONE! sued NBC after a deal by the former to purchase Women.com and Women.net for $1 million fell through. DONE! is asking for NBC to follow through on the deal, which ... read more ...