Tag Archives: Oversee.net

Mon 18th April 2011
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UDRP Panel Questions Oversee.net’s Automated Domain Registration Processes - WIPO panel questions Oversee.net defense of “automated systems” for registering domain names. A UDRP panel has found against Oversee.net in a UDRP dispute over CarrollHouse.com and has posed significant questions about the company’s domain name registration practices. Complainant Carol House Furniture has used its name since 1965 and it incorporated in 1970. The dispute says that Oversee.net registered the domain on September 4, 2010. But the domain was actually ... read more ...
Tue 1st February 2011
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Live: Jeff Kupietzky Gives 10 Prophecies for Domain Industry - Jeff Kupietzky gives predictions for 2011. This afternoon at DOMAINfest Global in Santa Monica Oversee.net CEO Jeff Kupietzky provided 10 prophecies for the domain name industry. But first he reviewed Oversee.net’s results over the past year: – Moniker had 10% revenue growth and growth in number of domains – 50% growth in Oversee Aftermarket revenue – 50 new employees – 10% increase in revenue per click 1. Increase in premium domain sales in 2011 – predicts ... read more ...
Wed 8th December 2010
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Like Fantasy Football? Try Fantasy Domaining. - Fantasy domaining contest runs through January 15. Oversee.net’s DOMAINfest conference has an innovative contest going on right now: fantasy domaining. It works similar to fantasy football. But instead of drafting players and watching their Sunday afternoon performance, you draft domain names and watch their pay-per-click performance. Here’s how it works: 1. Select 35 domain names out of 1,000 owned by Oversee.net 2. Pick 25 of these to be your “in game” ... read more ...
 
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Registrars Defend Domain Name Whois Privacy - by Kevin Murphy Domain registrars are fighting off critics of Whois privacy on multiple fronts at the ICANN meeting in Cartagena, Colombia this week. In the latest example, registrars led by Tucows CEO Elliot Noss today savaged an ICANN draft advisory that would hold affiliated privacy services accountable for cybersquatting customers. In May, ICANN said that as far as it is concerned proxy/privacy services are liable for how customers use their domains, under the ... read more ...
Thu 2nd December 2010
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Brilliant: Bob Parsons to Keynote DOMAINfest - Go Daddy founder to give keynote presentation at DOMAINfest. I didn’t see this coming, but it’s brilliant: Go Daddy founder Bob Parsons will keynote February’s DOMAINfest Global conference in Santa Monica. DOMAINfest is run by Oversee.net, which owns Moniker. Go Daddy is certainly its #1 competitor for domain registration. Go Daddy is the biggest domain name registrar and manages perhaps 20 times as many domains as Moniker. But DOMAINfest is an industry ... read more ...
Wed 1st December 2010
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Oversee.net Launches CreditCards.org Web Site - Company launches another developed web site. Oversee.net continues to expand its network of lead generation and CPA portals, this time with CreditCards.org. The site includes information about using credit wisely and consumer news, but the main idea is to get people to apply for credit cards. There are a number of similar credit card comparison sites on the web, most notably CreditCards.com. Operators of credit card comparison sites typically earn money with each ... read more ...
Wed 27th October 2010
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Settlement with Nelson Brady Saves Oversee.net from Legal Hassles - Brady requested a number of documents related to Oversee.net’s operations. As far as lawsuits go, Oversee.net’s suit against former employee and shill bidder Nelson Brady was somewhat unique. After all, you had someone who admitted much of the wrongdoing that was alleged. Yet getting money out of Brady wasn’t going to be easy for Oversee.net. Brady was going to make Oversee jump through some hoops. For example, Brady subpoenaed Bank of America for “all ... read more ...
 
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Oversee.net Starts New Technology Blog - Blog chronicles engineering challenges of large online networks. What’s it like building technology for a business that sees over 300 million unique visitors each month? A new blog will help shed some light. Oversee.net’s engineering team has just started a new blog called Regularly Expressed. In one of the first blog posts, Oversee.net Director of Technology and Program Management for Monetization Terrence Lui discusses the traffic the company deals with: “…Oversee.net ... read more ...
Tue 26th October 2010
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SnapNames Settles Class Action and Case Against Nelson Brady - Oversee.net settles with former employee and class action. SnapNames has resolved two outstanding lawsuits related to its bidding scandal. First, the company has resolved its claims with former employee Nelson Brady. Brady was the sole employee who drove up bids on SnapNames. The settlement will not be made public, but SnapNames parent company Oversee.net said the “financial penalty is appropriate considering the seriousness of the improper activity.” I had ... 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 ...
Fri 2nd July 2010
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DOMAINfest NYC Should Draw a Big Crowd - Next month’s one day conference will be big; October’s will be even bigger. It’s technically only a one day event, but I suspect next month’s DOMAINfest Power Networking Day in New York City will draw a very sizable crowd. The event is being held right after Affiliate Summit, and both events are cross promoting each other. This, along with being in New York City, should result in big numbers. I caught up with Oversee.net Head of Marketing Aaron Kvitek yesterday ... read more ...
Tue 22nd June 2010
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DOMAINfest Global Moves to Feb for 2011 - Largest domain conference sets date for 2011. Oversee.net’s flagship DOMAINfest Global conference is moving back a week this year to the first week of February. The conference will take place February 1-3, 2011 and will again be held at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica, California. Hotel reservations for the event are already available. If it’s anything like last year, the hotel will sell out in a hurry even though the entire hotel is reserved for ... read more ...
Wed 26th May 2010
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Nelson Brady Comes Clean in Response to SnapNames Lawsuit - Brady acted alone, says he wanted to generate money for long term health care. Nelson Brady has responded to a lawsuit filed by Oversee.net and SnapNames regarding the company’s bidding scandal. Brady admitted to many of Oversee’s allegations. The response does not implicate any other employees in the scheme, indicating that Brady acted alone and other employees did not know about his activities. Brady admitted that he used the Hank Alvarez (halvarez) account ... read more ...
Thu 6th May 2010
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Nelson Brady Will Speak, But What Will He Say? - Expect to hear his side of the story within 30 days. By filing suit against former employee Nelson Brady this week, Oversee.net and Snapnames hope to accomplish a couple things. Yes, it wants to get some of its money back. But more importantly, it wants to clear its name. Ever since the scandal broke last year, conspiracy theorists have suggested that the company was complicit in what happened and that’s why it wasn’t going after Brady. In reality, it was ... read more ...
Tue 4th May 2010
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SnapNames and Oversee.net Sue Nelson Brady aka Halvarez - Here are some of the ones he won – themexp $534.00 halvarez 7/25/2009 yotutube $2.000.00 halvarez 7/19/2009 yountube $279.00 halvarez 7/19/2009 footcomfort $801.00 halvarez 7/16/2009 huffingpost $425.00 halvarez 7/15/2009 torrentlocomotive $302.00 halvarez 7/14/2009 arcadevault $585.00 halvarez 7/12/2009 commonlawvenue $279.00 halvarez 6/12/2009 catchclub $425.00 halvarez 6/10/2009 proactivsolutions $2.000.00 halvarez 6/1/2009 everydadsnightmare $927.00 halvarez 5/26/2009 winantispyware ... read more ...
 
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Inside Oversee.net v. Howard Nelson Brady, Jr. - Lawsuit sheds more light on bidding scandal. Earlier today SnapNames and parent company Oversee.net filed a lawsuit against former employee Howard Nelson Brady, Jr. for his alleged scheme of shill bidding and embezzlement. Much has already been disclosed about Brady’s alleged conduct, but the lawsuit (pdf) provides more details of his alleged deceit. The suit cites a number of examples of how he tried to dupe other SnapNames employees into thinking that Hank Alvarez ... read more ...
Fri 30th April 2010
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Oversee Responds to Feedback, Expands Agenda for DOMAINfest Event - Next month’s event just got more interesting. I’ll say this about Oversee.net and its DOMAINfest conferences: it always responds to feedback. The company just announced that it’s beefing up its one day event to be held on May 13 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Some of the rumblings on blogs and message boards when the company first announced its “Power Networking” days was that it seemed more like an excuse to hold an auction. But the new agenda has more ... read more ...
Thu 25th March 2010
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DOMAINfest Announces Two Single Day Events in U.S. - Oversee announces two “mini shows” for 2010. DOMAINfest, a conference organized by Oversee.net and DomainSponsor, has announced two one day events taking place in the U.S. this year. The first will be May 13, 2010 at the W Hotel in Fort Lauderdale and the second on August 18, 2010 at the Grand Hyatt in midtown Manhattan, immediately following the Affiliate Summit East conference. Each event will including networking and programming and a Moniker live domain name ... read more ...
Thu 4th March 2010
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Lawyer: SnapNames Class Action Headed to State Court - Lawyers plan to take case to state court. The lawyers that filed a lawsuit in federal district court against SnapNames and Oversee.net over the ‘Halvarez’ scandal and later dismissed the case say it’s not over yet. “It was really just a procedural move,” said Michael Aschenbrener, lead attorney on the case for Edelson McGuire LLC, commenting on why the case was dismissed. Aschenbrener said they might have an easier time filing the case in state court. ... read more ...
Sat 27th February 2010
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SnapNames Class Action Lawsuit Dismissed - Lawsuit over employee bidding scandal voluntarily dismissed by plaintiff. A lawsuit against SnapNames and parent company Oversee.net that was requesting class action status has been voluntarily dismissed. Steward Resmer, a SnapNames customer who lost $20 in an auction thanks to the “halvarez scandal”, filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court, Central District of California in November. Resmer was seeking class action status for the case on behalf of U.S. customers ... read more ...
Fri 5th February 2010
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Judge Says SnapNames Lawsuit Might be Too Small for Class Action - Amount in question may be below $5 million required for class action case. U.S. District Judge Margaret M. Morrow is asking the plaintiffs bringing a class action against SnapNames over the insider bidding scandal to show that the controversy exceeds $5 million. Under the Class Action Fairness Act, the amount at issue in a lawsuit must exceed $5 million (not including interest and costs) to qualify for class action status. In the case of Stewart Resmer vs. Oversee.net ... read more ...
Tue 26th January 2010
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Jeff Kupietzky Opening Remarks during DOMAINfest - Oversee.net CEO Jeff Kupietzky gives opening remarks about how we’re still in the early days of domain names. Oversee.net CEO Jeff Kupietzky gave opening remarks to a record crowd at DOMAINfest Global 2010 this afternoon. His message was that we’re still in the early days of the domain business. Looking at Oversee’s three businesses: 1. Domain parking – DomainSponsor Over 80% of visitors to parked domains still don’t convert. Even though RPMs are high ... read more ...
Thu 14th January 2010
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Oversee.net Asks Court to Dismiss SnapNames Lawsuit - Defendants file motion to dismiss lawsuit over bidding scandal. Oversee.net and SnapNames have filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed against it in wake of the SnapNames insider bidding scandal. The lawsuit seeking class action status was filed by Stewart Resmer, who overpaid for a SnapNames auction by $20 in 2006 due to the insider bidding. In its motion to dismiss (pdf), Oversee.net and SnapNames argue: -Resmer doesn’t have any standing to name Oversee.net ... read more ...
Wed 6th January 2010
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Transamerica Dismisses Moniker from Lawsuit, Win for Domain Registrars - Oversee.net and related companies dropped from Transamerica lawsuit. Transamerica has dismissed Moniker, Oversee.net, Domain Systems, and Moniker Privacy Services LLC from its lawsuit over alleged trademark infringement. The parties filed a Joint Stipulation for Dismissal with prejudice on December 28, 2009. Moniker also withdrew its request for sanctions under Rule 11. This is a big win for domain name registrars. Since the beginning, Moniker claimed it was merely ... read more ...
Tue 29th December 2009
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2009 Domain Dunce Award: SnapNames Due Diligence - Due diligence in expired domain company acquisition missed a couple big problems. Mergers and Acquisitions due diligence is thankless work. You have to learn everything about a company, including things about it that its current owners don’t know, in a short period of time. If you get everything right, no one remembers to thank you a couple years later. If you mess up, everyone knows about it. And that’s exactly the case with SnapNames. The due diligence ... read more ...