NameMedia IPO Filing Reminiscent of Route 128 Glory Days

By Mike Maddaloni on Friday, November 02, 2007 at 02:23 PM with 2 comments

photo of Route 128 America's Technology Highway signToday, November 2, domain name powerhouse NameMedia Inc. announced it filed for an initial public offering worth up to US$173 Million. Shares of NameMedia will be listed on the NASDAQ market under the ticker ‘NAME.’ This is big news for the domain name industry, as NameMedia is one of the largest players with BuyDomains as well as recent announcements of their launch of Gardens.com and acquisition of Photo.net.

It is also big news for the Boston area technology market, as NameMedia is located in Waltham, Mass., the home of many technology giants over the years, including Polaroid and Lycos. Waltham for centuries has been a center for pioneering advances in industry, including the Waltham watch, Metz automobile and bicycle, the invention of the microwave oven at Raytheon. In recent decades Waltham and the entire Route 128 corridor that cuts through it was called America’s Technology Highway, only second to the Silicon Valley. After the dot-com bust many biotech firms replaced the offices of tech companies.

Good luck to NameMedia on their IPO filing, the next generation of innovators to line the highway immortalized in “Roadrunner” by Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers!

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NameMedia renewed domains I once owned and used commercially that expired while I was incapacitated by a traumatic brain injury{TBI}.

BuyDomains contacted me directly first while I was in a hospital on a borrowed computer. I only have a memory to testify about there as well as witnesses to my distress. 

They contacted me again in 2007. I have that for evidence!
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They contacted me again this year!
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I told them that the domains were previously used by me in business and that I would gladly pay renewal fees and trade another domain for their return. They said the domains were now “premium” domains and BuyDomains wanted 2600 or greater.

See the dialog with their lawyer in the pdf attached to this Email.

I am very angry and want to punish the people who I found responsible for killing my domain with a prison term.

My domains were active for six years or more. It is recorded in the Internet Archive back as a dozen years or 1997!  SEE
NameMedia killed my domains! My legacy was destroyed by NameMedia! NameMedia kidnapped my domains and asked me for ransom.

When I could not pay what NameMedia said it was worth, they sold it to a company that then started to use the domain to begin their business.

NameMedia cybersquatted both my domains to death! I am suing NameMedia and asking for a minimum of TEN MILLION DOLLARS.

I would prefer to see NameMedia’s employees all go to jail!

I am not wanting to look into a domain dispute “tribunal” like their attorney referred to using.  NameMedia already told me what would happen there before their TRIBE.  See the above pdf the attorney attached to the last linked email.  They are very familiar with that tribe.  The primary TRIBE they use for “resolving” disputes is simply another part of the problem. 

The Supreme Court needs to finally clean up these underhanded domain name kidnappers.  I filed in the Western District of Arkansas United States Court last week.  A Federal Lawsuit for my peers to decide!  Grrr! Not a tribunal!
I demand a JURY!  Read the suit as initially filed.  Lawsuit

I am suing as a poor, legless, brain injured, and paralyzed, pauper!  I asked to proceed without paying.  I have until Aug 3 to re-file as I was provisionally approved!  I forgot to sign.  Oops!
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YOU ARE MY COURT OF PUBLIC OPINION!
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This forum is probably controlled by NameMedia somehow and this post will just never appear or disappear quietly?
Moderator - if you decide this is HOT enough news to share, I say let the chips fall where they will.

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I will be presenting this post’s statistics in Federal Court!  How long till it was either deleted or posted and then the follow-ups.

Picture of Curtis J. Neeley Jr. MFA Comment by Curtis J. Neeley Jr. MFA
on 07/26/09 at 07:13 PM
 


They were served but before they replied I amended my complaint and added Google for licensing the domains for AdSense for Domains and Network Solutions for advertising private data and announcing they were about to expire.

The entire domain name industry stands to be leveled by this lawsuit.  The industry creates absolutely nothing and is a FRAUD that the public supports because they do not understand how it even exists!  This URL came up as a referrer in my site logs today.  Someone was looking at a google cache of the page to bolster a counterclaim I am sure.
Let the chips fall where they may.
How much should justice cost?

http://www.namemedias.com

Picture of Curtis J. Neeley Jr. MFA Comment by Curtis J. Neeley Jr. MFA
on 11/19/09 at 04:29 PM
 



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