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Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:33:48 +0000

[...] interviewed MacRobie back in 2007 when he founded CitizenHawk. He raised some cash from outside investors, but [...]

By: Editor

Editor — Fri, 04 May 2007 20:09:25 +0000

Red Herring just wrote about the apparent contradiction by Maveron:

http://tinyurl.com/2ksqjt

By: Editor

Editor — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:14:53 +0000

Aaron, typos of trademarks are consistently judged as infringing. Many UDRPs are about typo domains, not the actual trademarks.

By: kevin

kevin — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 07:49:36 +0000

Please! Give me a break. IREIT has 90 verizon domains and its “unfortunate”. MacRobie must have his entire head up their butt.

Mark my words. Micrsoft’s recent litigation against cybersquatters is going to come back to bite them hard. Microsoft is the biggest cybersquatter in the world via there browser error search hijacking. The drum beat for a class action suit by all affected parties is going to grow louder and louder until they cough up billions in a settlement. Ha Ha ha.
This type of situation is exactly what the class action suit was meant for. There is a John Ewards out there right now licking his chops thinking about all the money he is goint to make suing Microsoft.
I think the settlement will be the biggest in US history. HA Ha Ha ha ha ha on Stupid soft I mean microsoft. The only people dumber are the people at Maveron. They invested in Typo domains and the software to catch themselves.

By: aaron

aaron — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 08:38:00 +0000

I believe MacRobie is tapping into a sketchy area (typo’s are not registered trademarks). I don’t see why any multi million dollar company/blue collar should think they have the rights to any random nonsense domains. Besides, if unregistered, the domains would normally end up going to google or msn as “not found” technically giving google, or msn the traffic/income.

It’s going to be “unfortunate” when the domain owners start growing balls and counter-suing the cricked companies trying to steal the domains from the legal registrants.

Clear Channel Inc. Stole a domain from me when I was 16. I am now 24 and I am planning on suing them now that i have a clearer understanding. They took the domain from me while I was a adolescents.

By: Editor

Editor — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 01:45:08 +0000

MacRobie was probably comparing iREIT to companies that have a much greater percentage of typos. There are companies that only own trademark typos.

That said, there are companies with large portfolios that own virtually no typos. NameMedia comes to mind. I’ve come across a couple trademarks in their portfolio, but they aren’t major ones.

By: Nick M

Nick M — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 23:31:47 +0000

I don’t know what qualifies as low percentage. If someone has 10% typos and TMs in a 600,000 domain portfolio it would still amount to 60,0000 domains. This absolute number of domains would be larger than most of the portfolios held by small and medium ppl.

The fact is that the biggest typo squatters are the largest companies in the domain space and calling this unfortunate is hypocrisy.