Comments on: Ex-Marchex Employees Pay Up For Competing Web Sites

By: bob

bob — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:42:11 +0000

To me it seems these ad companies that buy domains just to have advertising are scummy companies anyway. They lock up a crap load of domains just to throw up disgusting cookie cutter holder ad pages.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:46:30 +0000

Patricia, I’m sure the penalty they’re paying and the publicity of the case will be enough punishment.

By: Patricia Kaehler (DomainBELL)

Patricia Kaehler (DomainBELL) — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:41:42 +0000

I’m going to see if I can find a picture of the two… I am curious what such low-life’s look like… (can you tell this sort of thing ANGERS me ??)

~DomainBELL (Patricia)

By: Ex-Marchex Employees In Trouble For Setting Up Copycat Sites | Domain Name News

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:06:51 +0000

[...] some research, DomainNameWire.com discovered that Thoreson was the VP of Directory Services at Marchex and Manion was a software [...]

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:35:50 +0000

I’m sure they signed a non-compete, especially a VP. It would have been one thing had they just decided to create some web sites of their own, but allegedly they copied code from Marchex to develop the sites.

By: Patricia Kaehler (DomainBELL)

Patricia Kaehler (DomainBELL) — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:09:01 +0000

It never ceases to amaze me how STUOPID some people can be… and Dishonest…

You don’t take a former employers ANYTHING for personal gain… geez…

Seems like they would have had to sign some sort of non-competed clause upon hiring and now be in a court-actionable status…

No ??

Yes ??

~DomainBELL (Patricia)

By: Frank

Frank — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:54:28 +0000

I look at all these domain-related companies, and all of them eventually get heavily discounted by the marketplace when they go public. So MCHX declares their dividend today and gets a little bounce, it still isn’t far off from where it IPO’d. Insiders are selling and the market has priced it’s business model accordingly.

In the long run, all these companies trying to monetize the long tail and local search will end up in the same place as the companies who try/tried to muscle Realtors out of the house buying process.

Maybe Yellow Pages had it right all along.