Weigel Broadcasting Co. has filed a UDRP on the domain name Me.Tv
The domain name is owned under privacy since at least 2005 at Enom.com and it looks like it may have been owned by Enom.com as it went to an Enom.com registration page in 2012 rather than a placeholder according to Screenshots.com
The domain went to Channelme.tv for several years for a few years ending in around 2009 according to screenshots.com
The last time the domain was not under privacy it was owned by Hot Media, Inc. and Michael Blend, who was an officer of Demand Media, Inc. back in 2005 before Enom.com was spun off to Rightside.
The domain name does not currently resolve.
Weigel Broadcasting is an American television broadcasting company, based in Chicago, Illinois, alongside its flagship station WCIU-TV (Channel 26).
If you are wondering what Weigel’s relationship to Me.TV is according to Wikipedia.org it owns part of the Me-TV network as further explained below whose domain name is metvnetwork.com
“In April 2008, Weigel completed the purchase of WJJA-TV in Racine, Wisconsin, which gave the company its second full-power station in the Milwaukee market. The station carried a local version of Me-TV for four years before it and the independent format of low-power WMLW-CA were switched around in August 2012, becoming WMLW-TV.
In July 2008, Weigel announced the creation of This TV, a national subchannel network, operated as a joint venture of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Weigel.”
On November 22, 2010, Weigel announced that they would take the Me-TV concept national and compete fully with RTV and Antenna TV, while complementing its successful sister network This TV.
On January 4, 2011, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Weigel Broadcasting announced plans to distribute Me-TV nationwide.”
The Me-Tv Network’s website is MeTvNetwork.com
Ray should have written this one.
More to story then you know and domain name was sold to Enom.
He’s the .tv master!
Idiots – whomever brought this on at Weigel should be fired.
Ray doesn’t generally write anything on UDRP
However I did note in the story that it is/was likely the domain was owned by enom directly
Your the udrp expert mike! Ray is the .tv expert.
Talking Enom. Remember how Frank was able to return those .tv domains. That story was classic you did years back. Special treatment for mr am radio.
At least someone finds .TV worth going after 🙂
MeTVNetwork – what a horrible domain name IMO
John Van Den Berg one of the top .tv investors of all time sold the domain to Demand Media when they came on to market the .tv extension in 2006. They created a platform called Channel Me, John hand regged the domain for $1,000 a year and sold it to Demand Media in a six figure sale.
In 2009 John wrote:
Great Handreg – me.tv (a $1,000 premium, sold to Demand Media)
https://www.namepros.com/threads/the-good-the-bad-and-the.608143/#post-3605781
I hope they have got this.tv for their sister network.
Who has the power to change the rules regarding a current lack of monetary penalties in Reverse Domain Hijacking cases, and why haven’t the rules been changed thus far?