Readings for March 10th, 2008


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DNJournal cover Story: Born to Run: How Oversee.net Co-Founder and CEO Lawrence Ng Built a $200 Million Company Before His 30th Birthday

The wave of consolidation that has swept through the domain industry over the past couple of years has left a handful of giants at the head of the pack. Oversee.net is certainly one of those, having assembled some of the best-known brands in this space, including DomainSponsor.com, SnapNames.com and Moniker.com.  

Oversee also owns approximately 600,000 domains of their own and through DomainSponsor they monetize over 2 million more for other domain owners. They also operate leading websites in the mortgage and travel fields with Low.com and LowFares.com. The company's annual revenues topped $200 million in 2007 (up from $125 million the year before).


Source: DNJournal
Small correction Ron. 200M/year is not 200M company. In all likelihood Oversee is now a billion dollar+ business. Cheers Sahar

The Inquirer: Wikileaks calls for a global boycott of Enom and Demand Media

INTERNET FREEDOM website Wikileaks has called for a global boycott of domain registrar Enom, its parent company Demand Media, and their owners, executives and all affiliates, interests, holdings, successors, assigns and all heirs and descendents unto the fifth generation [okay, we made that last bit up - Ed].

What triggered Wikileaks ire was that, during its recent legal dustup with Swiss bank Julius Baer, Enom unlawfully locked and seized the Wikileaks.info domain, a Wikileaks.org mirroring website. Furthermore, Enom was also identified in a March 4 New York Times article as having shut down a Spanish travel company for selling flights to Cuba, which is fully legal in Spain.


Source: The Inquirer