Tag Archives: Oversee.net

Wed 18th November 2015
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Oversee.net co-founder Lawrence Ng launches $10 million incubator - OnRamp Fund is just the latest of Ng’s ventures post Oversee.net. Lawrence Ng today announced the launch of OnRamp Fund, a new incubator with $10 million to invest in early-stage startups. Ng co-founded Oversee.net, best known for its DomainSponsor domain parking service. He served as CEO of the company until 2008, and then Chairman of the Board from 2008-2015. He took his money off the table in Oversee.net when Oak Hill Capital invested $150 million in the company. That move was well-timed. Ng ... read more ...
Mon 30th June 2014
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Igloo to marketplace 300k+ DomainSponsor domain names - Domain name portfolio acquired by Rook Media will be marketed by Igloo. When Rook Media acquired DomainSponsor earlier this year, it also acquired Oversee.net’s large portfolio of domain names. Domain brokerage Igloo will begin marketing many of these domain names shortly, Igloo and Rook announced today. While not all domain names will be offered for sale, over 300,000 will be offered through Igloo’s brokers and a new online marketplace. Oversee.net once owned ... read more ...
Fri 28th March 2014
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4chan final 4chan.com domain name - Popular bulletin board asks arbitration panel to give it the 4chan.com domain name. One of the world’s most trafficked websites is on a .org domain name, and now its asking an arbitration panel to give it the matching .com. Image-based bulletin board 4chan (at 4chan.org) has filed a complaint with The World Intellectual Property Organization. It claims that the owner of 4chan.com is cybersquatting and demands the domain name be handed over. 4chan.com has been owned ... read more ...
Thu 23rd January 2014
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DomainFest earnings to Hollywood, skeleton discussion for finish of March - Oversee.net’s DomainSponsor announces plans for 2014 conference. DomainSponsor’s annual DomainFest conference is changing its branding back to DomainFest and has set its dates for 2014. The nine year old conference changed its name last year to WebFest Global because the agenda had expanded beyond domain names into search, mobile, and web development. Although it appears this year’s event will also focus on these expanded topics, the company is reverting its ... read more ...
Mon 29th July 2013
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Oversee.net launches TrafficMatch to representation domain trade to advertisers - TrafficMatch promotes domain name traffic to advertisers. Oversee.net, the parent company of DomainSponsor, somewhat quietly launched TrafficMatch last month. TrafficMatch pitches the company’s 300 million monthly visitors direct to advertisers – and a big part of that 300 million is domain name traffic. Here’s how the TrafficMatch website explains it: TrafficMatch is a leading provider of high value online traffic. With nearly 300 million visitors passing ... read more ...
Thu 18th October 2012
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DOMAINfest rebrands as Webfest Global - DOMAINfest gets a new name as it branches out from domains. It was only a matter of time. Oversee.net’s DOMAINfest has new name beginning with next year’s show: Webfest Global. This shouldn’t come as a huge surprise. Although the conference is run by Oversee.net’s DomainSponsor division, the subject matter has shifted in recent years. It’s not all about domains any more; it’s about lead gen, search engine optimization, affiliate marketing, mobile and web ... read more ...
Wed 19th September 2012
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DOMAINfest set for Feb 5-8, 2013 - Dates finally set for big domain industry conference. Oversee.net has set the dates for its annual DOMAINfest Global conference. Next year’s shindig will take place February 5-8. The show will return to the Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica. The entire hotel will be reserved for DOMAINfest guests. Moniker will be holding an auction in conjunction with the event. DOMAINfest is typically the domain investing community’s largest event in terms of attendance. ... read more ...
Tue 21st August 2012
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Monte Cahn settles lawsuit opposite Oversee.net - Long legal battle between Moniker founder and Oversee.net is over. Moniker.com founder Monte Cahn has dismissed his lawsuit against Oversee.net regarding money he said he was owed under a bonus plan. Cahn joined Oversee.net after Seevast sold Moniker to Oversee.net. Cahn left Oversee at the end of 2010. In May 2011 he filed a lawsuit against the company arguing he was due part of a $13 million bonus plan. Having read many of the documents and examinations filed with ... read more ...
Wed 30th May 2012
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Oversee.net’s fifth worker earnings to DomainSponsor role - Mike Song, an early Oversee.net employee, has returned to the company as an account manager. Song was hired by the company in 2003 after it launched the DomainSponsor domain parking service. He was the fifth employee of the company. He later held positions in operations and portfolio acquisitions with DomainSponsor. Song left Oversee.net in 2008 to join MediaTrust, according to his LinkedIn profile. At MediaTrust he was a manager of business development. He will report ... read more ...
Thu 24th May 2012
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Jeweler sues Oversee.net for cybersquatting - Jeweler files claim over six domain registrations. Jewelry company Tacori Enterprises has sued Oversee.net in U.S. District Court for cybersquatting. Tacori alleges (pdf) that Oversee.net is cybersquatting with at least six domain names: Taccori.com Tacorri.com Tacoriiv.com TacoriRings.com Tacoti.com Tracori.com Tacori alleges that Oversee.net “is a serial cybersquatter who registers, uses, and traffics in domain names that are confusingly similar to famous or distinctive ... read more ...
Thu 17th May 2012
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Oversee.net hires GM for $40M+ transport vertical - Oversee.net hires GM from online travel industry to run its travel network. Oversee.net has hired Raj Beri as General Manager of its travel vertical, the company announced today. Beri was previously Director and COO of IgoUgo, a travel site owned by Travelocity. The travel vertical is part of Oversee.net’s “vertical markets” business that includes fully developed web sites. Oversee.net is best known to domainers for its DomainSponsor domain parking service. Oversee.net’s ... read more ...
Fri 6th January 2012
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Judge allows rascal explain in Monte Cahn vs. Oversee.net to pierce forward, nixes dual others - Judge tosses two claims, allows fraud claim to move forward. The judge overseeing Monte Cahn vs. Oversee.net has handed down a mixed bag to both parties in his latest ruling. The Honorable Stephen V. Wilson dismissed two of Monte Cahn’s claims against his former employer while denying a motion to dismiss a fraud claim and strike a prayer for punitive damages. Oversee.net argued that Cahn’s fifth claim for fraud by Oversee.net was merely a restatement of an earlier ... 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 ...
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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Oversee.net Discusses Layoffs and Its Future - Company co-president explains Oversee.net’s business shift. News of Oversee.net’s layoffs didn’t come as a huge surprise last week. This sort of shuffling the deck is common when there’s turnover at the top. I caught up with Scott Morrow, co-President of Oversee.net, to find out what’s going on at the company. Morrow told me that Oversee.net now has three strategic focus areas. First, it will leverage its core assets of DomainSponsor and DOMAINfest Global. ... read more ...
Thu 15th September 2011
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Oversee.net Lays Off 13% of Staff - Company lays off staff after executive transitions Los Angeles, CA domain name company Oversee.net has fired 13% of its workforce. The company just announced the layoffs with the following statement: As part of its plan to address new growth opportunities, Oversee.net has realigned its work force resulting in a staff reduction of 13 percent. These moves, along with pending new hires, will allow the company to leverage core assets to innovate more effectively, improve ... 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 ...
Fri 26th August 2011
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Judge Dismisses Many of Monte Cahn’s Claims Against Oversee.net - Judge sides with Oversee.net’s Motion to Dismiss. Oversee.net got a big win today in a lawsuit filed by former employee Monte Cahn. The judge granted Oversee.net’s Motion to Dismiss (pdf) five claims ranging from Intentional and Negligent Misrepresentation to Unfair Competition. Oversee.net has argued that the case is merely a breach of contract case. When it filed the motion to dismiss, its lawyers wrote that the case “is nothing more than an alleged breach ... read more ...
Mon 25th July 2011
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Joe Higgins Lands during Rook Media - Former Oversee.net employee finds new home at Rook Media. Longtime Domain Sponsor account manager Joe Higgins may have left his employer of the last 6 1/2 years recently, but he didn’t leave the domain name industry. Higgins has joined new domain name parking company Rook Media. Rook Media was formed by former Name Drive senior managers who left after the latter was sold. It was in a private beta with large domainers since February and opened up to the masses ... read more ...
Thu 21st July 2011
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Lawyers Fight Over Monte Cahn’s Laptop - Court denies temporary restraining order for Monte Cahn’s laptop. The latest legal battle in Monte Cahn v. Oversee.net et al is over a laptop. Lawyers for the defendants want to get their hands on the Moniker founder’s laptop, which they say is Oversee.net company property. They claim the laptop may include confidential emails and other information about both this case and other legal matters. The defendants filed for a temporary restraining order to get the ... read more ...
Wed 6th July 2011
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For Oversee.net, ShopWiki Is Another Ill-Timed Acquisition - Latest big acquisition hit hard by Google algorithm updates. Oversee.net has made a few big acquisitions over the years, and something always seems to go wrong. There was Moniker, which the company bought at the peak of the domain name auction market. Then there was SnapNames, which lost its best source of domains names (Network Solutions) to a joint venture with eNom shortly thereafter. And who can forget about the Halvarez shill bidding scandal. It appears that ... 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 14th June 2011
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Oversee.net Sells Chop.com for $60,000 - No price chopping with Chop.com. Oversee.net has sold Chop.com from its owned and operated portfolio with the help of Afternic. A UK company that appears to be a battery importer purchased the domain name for $60,000. As of right now the domain name still resolves to a DomainSponsor parked page. Chop.com was by far Afternic’s biggest sale of the week, although it has the usual strong list of four figure domains. Here are some of the top ones: antonio.net $11,000.00 netstars.com ... read more ...
Mon 13th June 2011
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DOMAINfest Changes NYC Show Format to Meetup, Nixes Las Vegas - New York show changed to a meetup and Las Vegas show canceled. Oversee.net has made some changes to its remaining DOMAINfest shows for 2011. First, the New York show planned for August will now be an evening meetup instead of a one day “Power Networking” day. The event will take place August 23 from 7-10 pm at the Mad46 Rooftop Lounge. Registration isn’t open yet but the web site notes it will be $150. I’m a bit disappointed in this change because the ... read more ...
Wed 1st June 2011
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Oversee.net Asks Court to Dismiss Monte Cahn’s Claims - Domain name company responds to lawsuit over incentive plan. Oversee.net has responded to a lawsuit by former employee Monte Cahn by asking the court to dismiss most of the lawsuit’s claims (pdf). Cahn sued Oversee.net last month over an incentive plan in which Cahn says he could have earned up to $13 million. Cahn alleges that he is owed money under the plan but was never paid. Oversee.net claims that the suit “is nothing more than an alleged breach of contract ... read more ...