Comments on: Domain Industry Intrigue; Oversee.net Gets Hosed

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By: Oversee.net Gets a $150 Million Injection of Private Equity

Oversee.net Gets a $150 Million Injection of Private Equity — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:22:57 +0000

[...] Oak Hlll Capital Partners. Oversee has been on a buying spree lately, snapping up domain auctioneer SnapNames for $35 million last October and domain registrar Moniker for $65 million a couple weeks [...]

By: anything sounds powerful

anything sounds powerful — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 07:51:12 +0000

hi can you sugget few names which are suitable for manufacturing industry

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ravi

By: successclick

successclick — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 13:28:43 +0000

Michael who?

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 03:24:25 +0000

I don’t take this whole purported drama at face value at all. Knowing some of the guys at Snap/Oversee, to think they didn’t see this as a potential risk and not have two or three contingency plans for growth (see Snap Live Auctions news release) is a little bit … well .. just being a bit drama queen don’t you think? I’d like to see someone else who can build an immensely profitable $250m business with $0 outside funding tell me they’ve never had a minor setback.

By: chrisco

chrisco — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 05:34:03 +0000

@ #1: Take a stream of income, grow it at a 25%+ CAGR and sell at a nice multiple to the income statement… that is a definition of wealth creation.

By: Bill T.

Bill T. — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 03:36:39 +0000

agreed with kyle. “hosed” seems to be a bit overstated….ive heard that oversee.net is on pace to do 250mm this year. snapnames 35mm may hurt a bit, but this company still seems like the best kept secret out there i’ve heard of….

By: David Mackey

David Mackey — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 18:51:37 +0000

Ouch, that’s really gonna hurt.

By: itechcrunch.cn

itechcrunch.cn — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 15:42:00 +0000

i went to namejet,i found it a domain exchange site.i found 0012530.com,020china.com.i think it is used for china.but i think nobody would buy it.

By: kyle

kyle — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 15:30:42 +0000

Interesting post… I wouldn’t label oversee.net as getting hosed.They are in a sweet spot and executing right. Funny how they have grown to a 150m rev company from their own pockets. Yet, demand needs to rais 300m+ to open eyeballs. Snapnames is just a start to what oversee has to come. They have a brilliant management team, and will be the leader in this market

By: AV

AV — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 11:55:37 +0000

Obviously none of you know how much DomainSponsor makes per *DAY* from their parking business. Hint: take your house price and maybe triple it.

By: Robin Wauters

Robin Wauters — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 10:12:05 +0000

Oversee.net also just pulled the plug out of the company SwapNames (with a ‘w’ instead of an ‘n’) by suing them over trademark infringement. What were they so afraid of?

By: Adrian

Adrian — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 09:16:49 +0000

They may have cost me a dime or two when compared to some reality where the domains I have wanted were available or when I was spared the time moderating the comments from the likes of Alex.

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 09:06:56 +0000

#16

Really. Maybe these smart squatters will just spam your url: http://blog.wajsbrem.com/

By: Adrian

Adrian — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 08:45:43 +0000

No typo or domain squatter has made a dime from me.

By: mathew johnson

mathew johnson — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 22:47:18 +0000

Yo, personally, I give Mike Arrington a lot of credit for having a background in domaining. All that back-room Internet marketing stuff is hard. The people that build big domain/affiliate/ad businesses in their basements with zero capital are super smart, and most startup people couldn’t hack it at all.

By: bg

bg — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 20:47:34 +0000

i love it , i hate oversee.net. They used one of my domains and put ads on them without my knowledge and seeing a cent.

Karma. Take that you &&*U(&.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 20:16:17 +0000

This article was very interesting!

By: Bill

Bill — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 18:42:43 +0000

My, how the cookie crumbles!

Some of the things that I’ve seen DomainSponsor do in the past made me view them more on the unethical side of the parking spectrum. It’s interesting to see this take place. I guess they get a taste of what it’s like when someone does something bad to you.

By: sputnick

sputnick — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 15:04:55 +0000

Very informative article. Nobody knows the domain squatting business like Mike A.

By: Sonome

Sonome — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 15:00:06 +0000

Hi Michael,

Is it possible that you create a separate feed for each of the writers of TechCrunch?

Sonome

By: Ric Johnson

Ric Johnson — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 13:44:35 +0000

Mike,

YOU ran Pool? I have been reading your blog all this time and never knew you were in the domain business. I have used all of these services for years. I loved pool, but they screwed me a couple of times, and have not used their services since. The biggest problem: monopoly of .Com domains.
In fact that is why I started OpenDomain: to do something GOOD with domains. I buy domains and then let people use them for FREE. Last year I donated Drupal.Com to Dries, and recently EcmasScript.Org to Eich. BUT… I have to admit my idea does not work in that i costs WAY too much with little return. Still pretty kewl that a guy like me can help some of the biggest sites on the net.

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 07:21:02 +0000

AGAIN. In ten, twenty, thirty years these domains will be worth month than they are today. Ask Mike Arrington how much the url Pool.com is worth?

By: Steve Ballmer

Steve Ballmer — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 05:52:08 +0000

Who woulda’ thunk?