Comments on: Transamerica Sues Moniker Over Trademarked Domain Names

By: Caroline

Caroline — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:43:53 +0000

Who is Transamerica calling “fictitious, anonymous, and unaccountable individuals”? That would be me! I register all my domains there nowadays…and none of them are trademarks, unless you count priusminivan.com, which just expired anyway. Just my luck Toyota will announce this week!…

By: Domain Name Wire » News » Moniker to Request Sanctions Against Transamerica in Lawsuit - The Domain Industry's News Source

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 01:44:56 +0000

[...] Moniker and parent company Oversee.net intend to request sanctions against Transamerica for a lawsuit the insurance company filed against them, according to a legal [...]

By: John Berryhill

John Berryhill — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:29:58 +0000

“John, be sure to bill Oversee for the free work you’re providing to them”

Heh.

You have to admit it is sort of odd that the implicit contention is that Moniker is supposed to carefully verify the identity of registrants, and is apparently supposed to monitor how many UDRP complaints they receive, while the Schnader firm, with a staff of lawyers, can’t get basic facts straight in their complaint.

By: Stephen Douglas

Stephen Douglas — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:20:39 +0000

@ JB and Dub-A

ROTFL! I roll with the pixie dust… lol.

Excellent commentary.

@ Paul Gulio – thanks for backing me up on pointing out the sleaze tsunami that is TransAmerica.

@ “Frankied”… you’re all over the place on your response… Domainers make “obscene” profits, (you’re a socialist?) and then we don’t rank in the sleaze vote for professions? When the business sector sees TA get their ass handed to them on this lame lawsuit, it will just bring in more value and sales in a legitimate source of internet “real estate” industry that has PROVEN value-driven marketing assets.

By: Andrew Allemann

Andrew Allemann — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:22:37 +0000

John, be sure to bill Oversee for the free work you’re providing to them

By: John Berryhill

John Berryhill — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:44:05 +0000

Here’s another one. They mention Express Corporation as being another “fake” entity.

According to Express Media Group, LLC, et al. v. Express Corporation, et al.
No. C 06-03504 WHA (N.D. Ca., May 10, 2007), that “fake” entity is able to hire an attorney, show up, give testimony, and defend a lawsuit concerning purchase of a hi-jacked domain name.

That’s impressive, for a party which doesn’t exist.

By: John Berryhill

John Berryhill — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:37:23 +0000

“Nice catches, John. The legal team certainly ran up a bill counting the over 1,000 references to Transamerica on one web site, but didn’t bother to run cursory checks on something as simple as UltSearch.”

I think they actually believe that every Moniker customer is simply made up by Moniker.

Apparently, I represented a non-existent client for several years. I guess that explains the pixie dust on their bill payments.

Or, since they list my name in the contact information, which of course was not in the WHOIS data, but instead copied from a UDRP complaint as the legal representative, maybe I don’t really exist. I’ll have to see if I’m disappearing from family photos like Marty McFly in _Back to the Future_.

But try to imagine my surprise upon learning today that I’m not real!