Court denies temporary restraining order for Monte Cahn’s laptop.
The latest legal battle in Monte Cahn v. Oversee.net et al is over a laptop.
Lawyers for the defendants want to get their hands on the Moniker founder’s laptop, which they say is Oversee.net company property. They claim the laptop may include confidential emails and other information about both this case and other legal matters.
The defendants filed for a temporary restraining order to get the laptop. But U.S. District Judge Stephen V. Wilson denied the order, saying the defendants failed to explain how the laptop is an “emergency” justifying emergency relief nearly seven months after Cahn left the company and more than a month after the lawsuit began.
Lawyers for the defendants have proposed having a third party escrow the laptop for potential use in the future if there’s a court order. They claim that Cahn’s lawyer “is currently in the process of obtaining the Oversee Laptop from Mr. Cahn so that he can provide it to his hand-selected forensic consultant Intelligent Discovery Solutions (“IDSâ€) for purposes of creating an image of the hard drive.”
Adam says
wow. ugly
dubai says
when i saw this headline i thought it was a domaingang post!
when i see moniker dns failing, payment issues trying to register domains even, whois privacy mistakes
snapnames scandal!
and moniker are pissing off domaining legends such as rick and monte, i’m starting to think it’s time to leave moniker
i don’t trust the stewardship
in fact it’s looking more and more like newscorp every day!
dubai says
when i say ‘moniker’ i mean oversee
moniker was the best under monte before oversee ruined it
i hope oversee fall on hard times and have to sell moniker and monte gets to buy ‘her’ back on the cheap
that would be awesome
Louise says
Get the popcorn! 😀
SF says
This could be a golden opportunity for Oversee to turn the ship around.
Take emotions out of the equations. Bury the hatchet. Business is business.
Bring Monte to the bargaining table and make him an offer he cannot refuse to come back to Moniker and “run the show”.
Give him full control and plenty of breathing room. IF Oversee could finesse something like this, they would renew the trust of a LOT of old domainers. And, they could attract a sizable percentage of newcomers.
This might be their one and only chance to put Moniker back at the top …where it once was.
M. Menius says
After years of “following” domain industry news, this whole thing seems sort of pathetic. Oh well.
Hal Meyer says
Monte = Moniker. I really enjoyed doing business with Monte, one of the best people in the industry.
I agree with SF.
Pay the man.
If he is willing, bring him back, and give him whatever he needs to do his job.