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Rust Consulting has begun e-mailing out the SnapNames rebate offers to all affected customers. I received my e-mail earlier this morning, although it ended up in my Gmail spam folder by mistake. SnapNames customers will have until November 6, 2010 to accept the offer, which is one year from today.
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A detailed look at the whois history of domains won by SnapNames VP of Engineering Nelson Brady shows that he pointed at least one domain to SnapNames DNS servers by mistake, and let a good domain expire.
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Some gave me a hard time for not including more facts in my previous story that speculated on how the SnapNames scam was uncovered. I admit that my previous article was vague where clear facts would have sufficed. So let me set the record straight and dive into the minutia of whois histories that drove my initial conclusions.
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As I mentioned in my previous article about the SnapNames fraud, iREIT may have purchased a portfolio of domains from Nelson Brady in late 2006. An iREIT spokesperson declined to speculate on the accuracy of my claim, but whois records indicate that a number of domains were transferred from DomainQueue of Tacoma, WA to iREIT in late 2006.
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In an e-mail this morning, SnapNames CEO Jeff Kupietzky and general manager Craig Snyder notified SnapNames customers that an ex-employee was involved in up to 5% of auctions between 2005 and 2007. They have also announced a reimbursement program for some of the affected customers. Customers who won auctions where the ex-employee is believed to have bid up the price will receive a refund of the difference with interest. I spoke to a SnapNames employee this afternoon who confirmed that the fired employee was in fact Nelson Brady who used the handle ‘halvarez’ when bidding on SnapNames auctions. A photo of Nelson Brady is available on DNjournal here.
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Last Monday, October 12 the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Arbitration and Mediation Center convened a conference in Geneva, Switzerland to mark the 10th anniversary of the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP). The UDRP is the most enforceable legal instrument for trademark owners to defend a mark when used in a domain name.
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GoDaddy has responded to Eolas’s Tuesday announcement of their filing a patent infringement lawsuit. Elizabeth Driscoll, Vice-President of Public Relations for GoDaddy told me,
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Texas company Eolas Technologies has filed a federal lawsuit against domain name registrar GoDaddy and 22 other companies alleging infringement of two patents involving embedded web applications and AJAX.
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I received an odd renewal notice today from a company I didn’t recognize. I looked to see if it was still in my account, which it was, and found the e-mail to be entirely fraudulent. This would be particularly dangerous for naive domain owners who take these kinds of e-mail at face value. The website is hosted at a Russian webhosting company, and the domain are registered in Latvia. The e-mail and whois records are below.
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After OnlineNIC refused to show up at the legal proceedings that resulted in the largest cybersquatting decision in history, I speculated that their decision to ignore the federal lawsuit may have been based on not having any U.S. presence.
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