Domain Masters Radio Show

Opening Remarks with Monte Cahn, host of Domain Masters

Monte: Hello, everyone. Welcome to this week’s show of Domain Masters. I’m Monte Cahn, your host. We have a great show tonight. I have Ari Goldberger who’s going to be joining us in a little bit. Ari is another domain legal expert. We’ve been hearing some feedback and I’ve received a bunch of e-mails that people want to hear more about legal issues regarding domains and what’s going on in the web these days.

So Ari’s one of the top experts, along with Howard Neu and John Berryhill and Steven Lieberman and so forth. And every one of these attorneys specializes in a little different aspect of domain law. And Ari prides himself on a lot of decisions that go in his favor for his clients for domain names that are challenged by corporations and by individuals, and he also represents companies that are trying to get their domain names back, and a lot of reference to domain hijacking decisions. And there’s a real famous one that he just was in charge of that we’re going to talk about tonight, called Mess.com. In addition, Ari has a lot of knowledge in the pay-per-click space and hostage domains and getting good title domains, and we’re going to talk about each of those issues tonight.

After Ari, we’ve got Ron Jackson from DNJournal coming back on the show. If you’ll remember, we haven’t had him on in a while. We’re going to update what’s been going on in domain name sales for the first couple months of the year and talk about one of his new cover stories, which is focusing on some of the women of the web, and some of the people that have been successful that are women in our space, and it’s a great article and their cover story at DNJournal.com. We’re going to be talking about that tonight. So we’re going to break and pay some bills for some commercials and we’ll be back right on with Ari Goldberger. Stay tuned.

Hi everyone. Welcome back to the show, Monte Cahn with DomainMasters. If anybody hasn’t logged in yet, please go to webmasterradio, log into the chat room. There’s a lot of people joining on and a lot of chat going on, so I’m sure there’ll be good area for you guys to post some questions. Ari is online in there and he can answer some questions, as well, and so can I.

So my first guest, as I introduced before, is Ari Goldberger, a domain name legal specialist, another great attorney in our industry that handles a lot of cases for my clients, and we actually have had a relationship, or I have personally with Ari, going way back a couple years, and that’s how are paths have crossed. How are you doing, Ari? You on?

Ari: Yeah, I am. Can you hear me?

Monte: Yeah, I can here you.

Ari: Great, fantastic.

Monte: How you doing?

Ari: Great, pleased to be here.

Monte: Hey, well thank you for joining us, and I thought it was a great idea to have you on board and invited you on today because we’ve been getting a lot of feedback from our listeners that they want to hear more about the legal issues. And you’re one of the best attorneys in the industry to talk to you and you have a lot of interesting things going on, so I thought you’d be a great guest to have on tonight.

Ari: Well, thanks, I appreciate that.

Monte: And we both have kind of an interesting past, as well. Ari used to work for Mail.com as their VP of Business Development, correct?

Ari: That’s correct.

Monte: Yeah, and we represented some of their names for sale. And I remember we were in kind of in a little pickle, we were representing the sale of World.com at the time, this was going back several years, and World Com came back and said, “Hey, what the hell are you doing trying to sell World.com, we have trademark rights over that.” Remember that case?

Ari: Yeah, that was a funny case, you know, in the end that case was ultimately settled by all parties.

Monte: Yeah.

Ari: And, you know, World.com had more important things to deal with, I guess, or bigger fish to fry.

Monte: Yeah, like going bankrupt.

Ari: Yeah, exactly. So, yeah, the domain name remained. That was a domain name that was owned by a company for years. Actually, a guy in Boston, who claims to have run one of the first ISPs from the 80’s, had that domain name, and I think the ISP was called The World, but, yeah, we do have an interesting history on that domain name.