Gregg McNair is back in the news for the 2nd Monday in a row by joining with another huge name from the domain industry to form a new venture. Last week it was Ken Hansen that left Neustar to join Greg McNair and in the Co.com registry and today its long time veteran in of Escrow.com Andee Hill who left Escrow.com last week to join Mr. McNair in a new online escrow company EscrowHill.com … [Read more...]
Archives for November 2013
Scott Richter Gets Slammed By Krebsonsecurity.com As ICANN Sends Termination Of His Dynamic Dolphin Registrar
A respected internet Security blog Krebsonsecurity.com ripped Scott Richter in a post covering ICANN's notice of termination of the Registrar Accreditation Agreement of the domain name registrar, Dynamic Dolphin, a registrar that Krebs says "has long been closely associated with spam and cybercrime". "The move came almost five years after this reporter asked the … [Read more...]
Bought in 2007, Care.com To Go Public In 2014
Care.com Inc., is planning to go public, in 2014 according to WSJ.com. According to the WSJ.com store, Care.com is an online service for hiring nannies and other at-home caregivers, and hired Morgan Stanley to lead the IPO, which is expected to raise around $100 million next year. Care.com operates a marketplace for baby sitters, dog walkers, housecleaners and other household caregivers. It … [Read more...]
Godaddy’s Founder Bob Parsons reemerges As The Harley King
Bob Parsons, best known as the founder of GoDaddy.com, has reemerged as as the King of Harley Davidson dealerships, announcing the acquisition of Southern Thunder Harley-Davidson in Southaven, Mississippi by his company YAM Worldwide. Southern Thunder is Parsons’ first acquisition outside of Arizona. The deal also includes two popular alternative retail outlets, Graceland Harley-Davidson … [Read more...]
The Only Thing Forbes.com Missed About The Domain Name Industry Is The Billion+ Dollars Coming Into It
After spending a week at the ICANN Meeting with 2,000 + people which are pouring over a Billion dollars into the domain name industry, I read the piece in Forbes.com by Deborah L. Jacobs, who is a self proclaimed "woulda coulda shoulda" kind of girl who still dreams about all the money that was sitting on the table in 1995, 2005 which she missed and is still missing today, trying to figure out how … [Read more...]
What Does Paris Hilton, Marvel, Standard & Poor’s, Affliction Clothing, Virgin & Remy Martin Have In Common? UDRP’s
Some interesting complainants ranging from Paris Hilton, to Marvel Comics, Standard & Poor’s, Affliction Clothing & to Virgin and Remy Martin in the news, as they either filed or won UDRP's on domain names today. Paris Hilton filed a UDRP on the domain name ParisHiltonPornVideos.com, a domain that was registered since 2005 Marvel Characters, Inc filed a UDRP on the … [Read more...]
NetworkSolutions.com Tries To Sell A Domain Owner His Own Domain
The domain name Registrar, NetworkSolutions.com tried to sell Domain investor Abdu Tarabichi of Domainsville.com his own domain name. Abdu got the following email from Network Solutions in which they tried to sell him the premium domain name Halallocator.com which he already owned and was registered at Networksolutions.com The domain name was registered in July 2013. The email offering … [Read more...]