According to a blog post on the catholic spirit blog Catholic Online, agreed to settle a lawsuit for $200,000 and pledged the domain catholic.org which according to the story """is estimated to be worth considerably more than $200,000, as collateral to ensure restitution is made.""" It appears that the District Attorney for Kern County (Bakersfield, Calif) must have agreed that the domain's … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2009
Supreme Court Let’s Virgina Anti-Spam Law Die
Today the Supreme Court, without comment, rejected the state of Virginia's appeal to keep its anti-spam law, regarded to be the toughest such state law, in place. The law known as the Computer Crimes Act banned commercial and noncommercial spam e-mail sent to consumers in that state. Mr. Jaynes was convicted in 2004 for sending bulk unsolicited electronic messages in violation of the Virgina … [Read more...]
Ford Gets Sued For Using Domain As A “Catch Phrase”: WeSpeakCar.com
In an unusual case, a Pittsburgh auto parts dealer filed a lawsuit on Friday in the U.S. District Court against Ford Motor Co., claiming they used the company's "catch phrase", which is also its domain name. Frank's Auto Supply Inc., claims they have used the phrase, "We Speak Car," in advertising since June 8, 2003. Moreover Frank's owns the domain name, www.wespeakcar.com. Frank's … [Read more...]
Our Take Of The AfterMarket.com Auction
Using our friends over at Esitbot.com valuation tool, we ran the domains in the AfterMarket.com auction, which closes on Tuesday, but it already opened for prebidding, to find the "Best Buys". According to Estibot.com here are the domains with the lowest Starting price to Estibot appraisal (any domain in bold already has a bid as of time of publication): Also please note that the prices … [Read more...]
Government Fires CEO of GM
Outside the world of domains, but certainly food for thought for all of us located in the US, is today's news that the Federal Government has basically asked for and gotten the resignation of the CEO of GM, Rick Wagoner. This is the first time in history that the US government has demanded that a private company fire the head of a company. The demand of the US government comes on GM's … [Read more...]
“The Perils Of Selling Out Too Cheap”
A very interesting blog post over at Tech Crunch talks about human nature and the tenancy of selling out too cheap when faced with a buyout offer, or as the author puts it: """Entrepreneurs selling companies too early. """Several entrepreneurs here have described themselves as having a huge appetite for taking risk on the front end; but being risk-adverse when it comes to turning down a huge … [Read more...]
Next BIG New Site On The Net: Hunch.com
The Co-founder of Flickr, Caterina Fake, talked about her new venture appropriately named Hunch.com A very interesting concept, paired with a great, easy to remember domain, should make this site one of the next BIG Web 2.0 sites. We had the myspace.com period, then facebook.com, now twitter.com is all the rage. Looking for the next HOT thing, we may have found it On Ms. Fake's blog, she … [Read more...]