WIKILEAKS.INFO censored by eNom and Demand Media
From Wikileaks
EDITORIAL
Friday March 07, 2008
| GUILTY | GUILTY | RESIGNED | GUILTY |
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| Richard M. Rosenblatt | Paul Stahura | John Kane | Sarah Akhtar |
| richard@demandmedia.com | paul.stahura@enom.com | sarah@demandmedia.com | |
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Richard Rosenblatt has a unique vision for the future of the Internet. A "serial entrepreneur"[1], properly calling himself dabigone online [2], he is a dot com locust, known for selling out MySpace[3] and boasting having made 1.3 billion dollars [4] out of the internet, including by "sniping" domains and ransoming them for profit when people forget to pay the bills, as well as pushing off the late .tv domain platform. |
Paul Stahura was the founder of eNom, Inc. and is now Chief Strategy Officer of Demand Media[5]. One of Paul’s recent proposals is Secure Blobs for Law Enforcement, a big-brother scheme redolant of the NSA CLIPPER chip fiasco[6]. Not content to roll over eNom customer records when asked, Stahura apparently realized eNom could increase profits by giving them away in bulk. Stahura's idea is to encrypt customer's confidential information and attach it to every public "whois" record. This would allow law enforcement, or anyone else with a key to get at the confidential records automatically. Not content to undermine the 1st amendment, Stahura apparently has plans for eNom to do away with the 4th as well.[7] [8]. |
John Kane was executive vice president of Demand Media and a recently promoted president of eNom. In December 2007 he resigned both positions under what are still mysterious circumstances[9][10][11]. Mr. Kane's ICANN entry was modified on the 6th of March 2008 to read "No longer with enom .. good riddance."[12] |
Sarah is Senior Vice President Legal & Business Affairs of Demand Media, Inc. and General Counsel of eNom, Inc.[13]On the 17th of February 2008 she boasted, in what could be the most facile New York Times article of the decade, of her marriage the day before to a urologist she picked up at a bar in Seattle.[14] |
On the 28th of February, 2008 while everyone was paying attention to the WIKILEAKS.ORG censorship case, another Wikileaks domain, WIKILEAKS.INFO, was unlawfully locked and seized. The censoring company was domain name registrar eNom, Inc of Bellevue, Washington. eNom is the second largest registrar of domain names with 8.6 million internet domains names under its "control".
eNom was also cited in the March 4, 2008 edition of New York Times this week for censoring a Spanish travel company with flights to Cuba.
Wikileaks successfully wrested back control of WIKILEAKS.INFO on March 6, 2008. However the behavior of eNom was egregious and without apology. On the back of this event and the New York Times article, Wikileaks decided to investigate the company.
The WIKILEAKS.INFO seizure was not an isolated incident. eNom, Inc. supported by Domain Media, Inc. has engaged in systematic Internet domain censorship and other unethical practices. The censorship is frequently unlawfully and without warning or apology. It is also a flagrant violation of eNom's contract with the international domain name regulatory body ICANN.
Wikileaks discovered minutes of an ICANN meeting revealing eNom's Privacy Protection Service as a sham.
- When complaints are received, we have a very low threshold for turning over the underlying information of the party. Basically anybody mentioning the word copyright or trademark or bought or anything can be sent the underlying contact information.. [they] receive it in response to their initial e-mail.[15]
In addition Wikileaks has discovered a previously unreported eNom proposal from last year to bulk-release customer records to government agencies. The plan is to convert the entire internet domain system to into "Secure Blobs for Law Enforcement", a big-brother scheme redolent of the NSA CLIPPER chip fiasco. Not content to roll over eNom customer records when asked, eNom has apparently realized it can decrease subpoena processing costs by giving away domain holders confidential information to government agencies en-mass. eNom's idea is to encrypt registrant's confidential information and attach it to every public "whois" record. This would allow law enforcement, or anyone else with a decryption key, to obtain all confidential records automatically. Not content to undermine the 1st amendment, eNom apparently has plans to do away with the 4th as well.
What follows is the Wikileaks case against and call for a global boycott of eNom and its parent company Demand Media, Inc. of Santa Monia, California, and all associated holdings and resellers.
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Wikileaks calls for a global boycott of eNom and its parent Demand Media, its owners, executives and all affiliated companies, interests and holdings, including
Equity Investors, Spectrum Oak Investment Partners and Generation Partners Principal executives Richard Rosenblatt Shawn Colo, Sarah Elizabeth Akhtar, Charles Hilliard, Paul Stahura, Sean Muller, Joe Perez, Steven Kydd, Deana Bergquist, Larry Fitzgibbon, Courtney Montpas and Michael Blend Holdings, subsidiaries and fronts Airliners.net Allgetaways.com Answerbag.com Arcadetown.com Casesladder.com Cracked.com DailyPuppy.com demandmedia.com DemandStudios.com eHow.com eNomCentral.com eNom.com ExpertVillage.com Flowgo.com Freewebgames.com Gamedelight.com Gamerival.com GardenGuides.com Golflink.com Grab.com Heavygames.com Madblast.com Mountainzone.com MyLeague.com Run.com Runtheplanet.com SoYouWanna.com Trails.com Resellers 100DomainHosting.com 101SiteHosting.com 10-ECommerce-Web-Hosting.com 10WebHosting.com 1stSingaporeWebHosting.com 1t3.com 5GbHosting.com 60Host.com Acshosting.net AffiliatePrograms.bz AleTiaHost.com AleTiaHost.net AnHance.com ArteryPlanet.net AssetNic.com AviaDirect.co.uk BaHost.com Best10WebHosting.com BrowseHosts.com BuLixHost.com Cheap-Hosting.com.ru Cheap-Site-Hosting.com CreateHosts.com Ctxhosting.com cyberland-usa.com DedicatedSpace.com DirectCpu.com DomainDirect.com Domainiacs.com Domain-In.com domainsbay.com DreamDesignWeb.com EachNic.com EBizHosting.com EHosting.com Expiry.com Ez-Internet.biz FateBack.com Finance-Informant.com FindHosts.net FineWebHost.com FirestormHost.com Free-Hosting.com.ru Gkg.net HostArc.com HostBulgaria.com HostByte.com HostDome.com HostGal.com hostgator.com HostingDirectories.info Hosting-List.com HostingTrade.com Hosting-Web-Central.com HostLead.com HostOrb.com HostProfessor.com HostVictoria.com HostWhere.com ICANN.org IcuBator.com IDwebhost.sg INeoHost.com Infinity.ws InTreLix.com JaguarPc.com JoltHost.com JuiceWire.net Kndenterprises.com Lfchosting.com LinHosting.com LpAnel.net MegaWebServer.com Mybes.com NameIt.net Names4Ever.com NameSecure.com NeonHq.com Nexusdomains.co.uk NobleHosts.com NuSeek.com Ofshosting.com OriWeb.com PhotographyByGus.com Plwebhost.com ProperComfy.co.uk PublicDomainReseller.com Qksrv.net Qoolhost.com Qopen.com RankMyDomain.com RealityHosting.ca ReAlter.com Registrars.com RegistrarStats.com ResellerHostingSite.com ResellersPanel.com Rfhost.com S4u.org Sb-host.com Sbhosting.net ScotIreHosting.com ServerFreak.com ServerPronto.com SeRvPlus.net SheEZeWebHost.com SignatureDomains.com SimplyWebHosting.com SingaporeWebHosting.com SiteMeter.com StargateInc.com statichosting.net TemplateList.com TemplateMonster.com ThrillHost.com TodaysHost.com TopCheapHosts.com Top-Web-Hosting-Directory.com transparenthosting.com Txvps.com VaPourNet.com vertihost.com verycheapwebhosting.com virtuehosts.com VitalSpeeds.com WebClickHosting.com WebHostingHunt.com Web-HostingResource.com Web-Hosting.uk.com WebIdentity.com.au WebmasterArchive.com WebmasterEmpire.com WebmasterKnowledge.com WebmasterLabs.com WebmasterLinks.org WebmasterSquare.com Webmaster-Talk.com WebmasterTopSites.com WebServio.com WebSpace4Free.biz WebToolBars.com webwowser.org Whois.sc Whois-Source.com Whost.info Wired2Host.com wlhosting.com Worria.com Xaz.biz Zunch.com How to tell if your site is actually registerd through eNom Go to http://www.betterwhois.com/ and search for your domain. Then look for Registrar, if it states: ENOM, INC. Please consider changing. |
eNom's non-cooperation with CNet news.com journalists Declan McCullagh & Anne Broache
On February 2, 2007 CNet news.com published a detailed article Survey: Are domain registrars free-speech friendly?[16]. While most registrars responded in detail, eNom stopped responding once it saw the survey questions:
- We began leaving voicemail and e-mail messages with Bellevue, Wash.-based eNom's public relations department on Monday afternoon and continued that process on Tuesday. John Kane, the company's vice president of business development, called us back that afternoon, apologized for the delay in responding, and invited us to send our survey questions his way. We have not received any response from eNom since then, despite multiple follow-ups
eNom refused to answer the following questions:
- Under what circumstances will you suspend a customer's domain name based on the content of his or her Web site, in the absence of a court order?
- How many times a month, on average, do you suspend a customer's domain name based on the content of his or her Web site?
- What are the most common reasons for suspension?
- How many domain names do your customers currently have registered through you?
- If you do suspend domain names in the absence of a court order, what procedures do you have in place to ensure that the customer is notified beforehand and given adequate opportunity to respond?
Censorship of CUBA-HEMINGWAY.COM and other Cuban travel related sites
On the March 4, 2008 The New York Times carried an article about eNom's censorship and seizure of a number domains owned by a British citizen working for a Spanish travel company.
- Either way, there is no dispute that eNom shut down Mr. Marshall’s sites without notifying him and has refused to release the domain names to him. In effect, Mr. Marshall said, eNom has taken his property and interfered with his business. He has slowly rebuilt his Web business over the last several months, and now many of the same sites operate with the suffix .net rather than .com, through a European registrar. — A Wave of the Watch List, and Speech Disappears, Adam Lipak, The New York Times, March 4, 2008
Public Citizen: is eNom a serial speech suppressor? Censorship of WIKILEAKS.INFO
From: Paul Levy <plevy[a t]citizen.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 2:09 PM
To: David Farber; ip
Subject: Is eNom a serial speech suppressor? [WAS: A Wave of the Watch List, and Speech Disappears]
eNom seems to be in the category of Dynadot, an easy pushover.
It appears that someone sent eNom a copy of the injunctions issued in the Wikileaks case
and told it that because of those injuntions they needed to shut down wikileaks.info, even
though nothing on the face of either the permanent injunction or the TRO purported to require
that any domain name other than wikileaks.org be turned off. A Wikileaks activist contacted
eNom and asked why the name had been turned off, and whether the Bank's lawyers had threatened
to take action against eNom in order to get it to turn off the domain name, but eNom has
refused to respond. The complete correspondence follows.
The key language, in the email from Christine Radocha:
the WIKILEAKS.INFO domain was placed on registrar hold in compliance with a
Temporary Restraining Order (TRO). This TRO required eNom, Inc. to place the WIKILEAKS.INFO
domain on registrar hold due to certain "JB Property" that appeared on the http://www.wikileaks.info website
It would be interesting to see whether eNom is willing to respond publicly to this criticism.
Should Internet users stay away from eNom the way we now know they need to stay away from Dynadot?
links related to eNom, censorship, and conduct immoral to netiquette etc
- A Wave of the Watch List, and Speech Disappears
- Same thing, different source:
- eNom sends copyright infrigement letter to custommer
- http://blog.domaintools.com/2007/05/enoms-sobrenombrecom-mistake/
- eNom caught domainsquatting
- http://tcattorney.typepad.com/anticybersquatting_consum/2007/05/enom_stealing_d.html
- eNom taking a persons website offline for providing false registering information
- http://www.crankycustomer.com/punished_by_enom_for_a_registration_placeholder.html
- Paul Stahura, eNom on "sniping" and ransoming freshly expired domains
- http://www.icann.org/correspondence/stahura-letter-to-halloran-31may03.htm
- Rosenblatt's involvement into the Myspace sellout
- http://www.freemyspace.com/misdeeds.htm
Correspondence between Wikileaks and United States domain registrar 'eNom'
Thu Feb 28, 2008 at 9:04 PM, eNom, Inc. <info2@enom.com>
To: "Dylan Ferris" [Wikileaks.info registrant]
Subject: WIKILEAKS.INFO has been placed on registrar-hold
Date: Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 9:04 PM
Dear Reseller,
You are receiving this notification to inform you that one of your
customers' domain names WIKILEAKS.INFO has been placed on registrar-hold
due to abusive activity such as spam, phishing or other violations of eNom's
terms and agreements.
If you feel that this action has been made in error, or that the abuse may
have been the result of a security compromise, please contact
legal@enom.com with any questions or concerns.
Regards,
eNom, Inc.
Fri 29 Feb 2008 14:06:11, "Dylan Ferris" <dylan@[wikileaks.info registrant]>
From: "Dylan Ferris" <dylan@[wikileaks.info registrant]>
To: legal@enom.com
Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:06:11
Subject: Re: WIKILEAKS.INFO has been placed on registrar-hold
Good afternoon,
After reviewing your usage agreement and policies, I can find no way in
which wikileaks.info is in violation. I also have no evidence of a security
compromise on my side. Please provide more information so that I may
investigate, or please restore the functionality of the domain name as soon
as possible if this is in error.
Thank you,
Dylan Ferris
Tue Mar 04 19:46:40 2008 (5 days later), Jay Lim <press@wikileaks.org>
From: Jay Lim <press@wikileaks.org>
To: Sarah Cooper; Sarah Cooper; akhtar@enom.com <akhtar@enom.com>;
akhtar@demandmedia.com <akhtar@demandmedia.com>; sakhtar@enom.com;
<sakhtar@enom.com>; sakhtar@demandmedia.com <sakhtar@demandmedia.com>
Date: Tue Mar 04 19:46:40 2008
Subject: URGENT 'wikileaks.info' seizure
TAKE NOTICE
Concerning the apparently unlawful seizure of 'wikileaks.info' by eNom.
eNom has not responded to enquiries first made on Feb 29 2008 to its Feb 28 2008
seizure of 'wikileaks.info'. We must assume this seizure is UNLAWFUL.
eNom has 24 hours to explain itself in full before Wikileaks issues a press
release about the seizure and considers other measures. The release is likely to
call for a mass boycott of eNom.
You tread on dangerous ground. Act accordingly.
Jay Lim.
Wed 5 Mar 2008 04:17:18, Sarah Cooper <sarah@demandmedia.com>
From: Sarah Cooper <sarah@demandmedia.com>
To: "'press@wikileaks.org'" <press@wikileaks.org>
CC: Steve Brown <Steve.Brown@enom.com>, Laurie Krick <Laurie.Krick@enom.com>,
Carolyn Mitchell <Carolyn.Mitchell@enom.com>
Subject: Re: URGENT 'wikileaks.info' seizure
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 04:17:18 +0000 (GMT)
Jay,
I am in receipt of your email. I will look into this situation as soon as
possible. Please let me know who you contacted at eNom.
I will contact you first thing tomorrow.
Best,
Sarah Akhtar Cooper
Wed 5 Mar 2008 04:25:46, Jay Lim <press@wikileaks.org>
From: Jay Lim <press@wikileaks.org>
To: Sarah Cooper <sarah@demandmedia.com>
Cc: "'press@wikileaks.org'" <press@wikileaks.org>,
Steve Brown <Steve.Brown@enom.com>,
Laurie Krick <Laurie.Krick@enom.com>,
Carolyn Mitchell <Carolyn.Mitchell@enom.com>
Subject: Re: URGENT 'wikileaks.info' seizure
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 04:25:46 +0000 (GMT)
FYI:
...resend of Dylan Ferris correspondence.
Wed 5 Mar 2008 05:07:3, Carolyn Mitchell <Carolyn.Mitchell@enom.com>
From: Carolyn Mitchell <Carolyn.Mitchell@enom.com>
To: Sarah Cooper <sarah@demandmedia.com>, "'press@wikileaks.org'"
<press@wikileaks.org>
CC: Steve Brown <Steve.Brown@enom.com>, Laurie Krick <Laurie.Krick@enom.com>
Subject: Re: URGENT 'wikileaks.info' seizure
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 05:07:38 +0000 (GMT)
This was a court order I worked with christina on. The order is pinned up imn my
cube. Christina has details we called the attorney the other day.
Wed 5 Mar 2008 05:20:51, Jay Lim <press@wikileaks.org>
From: Jay Lim <press@wikileaks.org>
To: Carolyn Mitchell <Carolyn.Mitchell@enom.com>
Cc: Sarah Cooper <sarah@demandmedia.com>,
"'press@wikileaks.org'" <press@wikileaks.org>,
Steve Brown <Steve.Brown@enom.com>,
Laurie Krick <Laurie.Krick@enom.com>
Subject: Re: URGENT 'wikileaks.info' seizure
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 05:20:51 +0000 (GMT)
Please immediately provide the date and court of this order and in particular how
eNom came to receive it and what claims or demands were made by
the senders in relation to it. We are not aware of any such order applying to
eNom. An order in relation to Dynadot, which has been the subject of several
hundred press reports, was overturned on February 29, 2008. If eNom was asked to
act on this latter order, then this is an abuse of process which we will likely
persue.
Wed 5 Mar 2008 18:59:00, Christina Radocha <Christina.Radocha@enom.com>
From: Christina Radocha <Christina.Radocha@enom.com>
To: "press@wikileaks.org" <press@wikileaks.org>
CC: Sarah Cooper <sarah@demandmedia.com>, Carolyn Mitchell
<Carolyn.Mitchell@enom.com>, Christina Radocha
<Christina.Radocha@enom.com>
Subject: RE: URGENT 'wikileaks.info' seizure
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 18:59:00 +0000 (GMT)
Dear Mr. Lim,
On February 28th, 2008, the WIKILEAKS.INFO domain was placed on registrar hold in
compliance with a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO). This TRO required eNom,
Inc. to place the WIKILEAKS.INFO domain on registrar hold due to certain "JB
Property" that appeared on the http://www.wikileaks.info website. This TRO was
issued by the Honorable Jeffery S. White of the United States District Court for
the Northern District of California (Case No. CV08-0824 JSW). As you may be
aware, eNom is required to comply with such orders. I am more than happy to
forward a copy of the Temporary Restraining Order to you if necessary.
As of today, eNom has not received any documents that pertain to the expiration
of this TRO, nor has it received any documents regarding a preliminary
injunction. If you have any documents that pertain to the release of this domain
or the expiration of the TRO, please forward them to me as soon as possible so
that eNom can proceed accordingly. eNom certainly wants to comply with any Court
issued order in this case, but we have not received any such documents other
that the Temporary Restraining Order.
Please send any documents requiring eNom to release the WIKILEAKS.INFO domain to
me as soon as you can. If required, eNom will release the registrar hold on this
domain as soon it receives such documents compelling it to do so.
Best regards,
Christina Radocha
Corporate Counsel
eNom, Inc
Wed 5 Mar 2008 19:18:38, Jay Lim <press@wikileaks.org>
From: Jay Lim <press@wikileaks.org>
To: Christina Radocha <Christina.Radocha@enom.com>
Cc: "press@wikileaks.org" <press@wikileaks.org>,
Sarah Cooper <sarah@demandmedia.com>,
Carolyn Mitchell <Carolyn.Mitchell@enom.com>
Subject: Re: URGENT 'wikileaks.info' seizure
Privacy: yes
In-Reply-To: <20080305185900.34789394497@mail.wikileaks.org>
Privacy: yes
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 19:18:38 +0000 (GMT)
Dear Ms. Radocha,
Please see
http://www.citmedialaw.org/threats/julius-baer-bank-and-trust-v-wikileaks
in particular the order of the 29th of February disolving the TRO
http://www.citmedialaw.org/sites/citmedialaw.org/files/2008-02-29-Order%20Denying%20Motion%20For%20Preliminary%20Injunction;%20Dissolving%20Permanent%20Injunction;%20and%20Setting%20Briefing%20and%20Hearing%20Schedule.pdf
We are aware that Lavely & Singer, Bank Julius Baer & Trusts lawyers have been
abusing process. I ask you again for information on who sent you the order(s)
and what claims or demands were made in relation to them. I ask you for a copy
of the demands or claims should they exist. If we do not receive this
information we must assume that eNom acted out of its own initiative and is
hence complicit in not only assuming the TRO applied to eNom, but not restoring
the domain when the order was rescinded on the 29th of February. We will goto
press with what we have.
Thu 6 Mar 2008 04:59:39, Jay Lim <jay@wikileaks.org>
From: Jay Lim <jay@wikileaks.org>
To: Christina Radocha <Christina.Radocha@enom.com>
Cc: Jay Lim <press@wikileaks.org>, Sarah Cooper <sarah@demandmedia.com>,
Carolyn Mitchell <Carolyn.Mitchell@enom.com>
Subject: Re: URGENT 'wikileaks.info' seizure
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 04:59:39 +0000 (GMT)
Dear Ms. Radocha et al
We are dissatisfied with eNom's response and its evasive behavior.
Not only has eNom not issued an apology for its previous lack of
communication between February 29, 2008 and today, or for its obeyance
of a TRO that arguably does not apply to it, or the clearly unlawful
highjacking and sabotage of the 'wikileaks.info' domain registration
between February 29, 2008 and March 5, but eNom has not supplied
the information requested of it by Wikileaks as to the circumstances
behind the seizure of the domain, AS REPEATEDLY REQUESTED. This
last failure leaves the strong impression that eNom is deliberately
evasive and has something to hide.
Has eNom forgotten not only good manners and ethical standards,
but its contractual obligations to its registrants, customers
and resellers?
Shape up or face the consequences.
Jay Lim
Dun & Bradsheet company details for eNom
INTERMIX MEDIA INC aka DEMAND MEDIA INC
Demand Media is the parent company of eNom and eNom is Demand Media's principal subsidiary and the two companies share much of the same board.
Address
Demand Media, Inc. 1454 3rd St. Promenade Santa Monica, CA 90401 United States
COMMUNICATIONS
- TELEPHONE
- 310-394-6400
- URL
- http://www.demandmedia.com
COMPANY IDENTIFIERS
- HOOVER ID
- 100775
COMPANY INFORMATION
- LEGAL STATUS
- Private
EXECUTIVES
OFFICER TITLE AGE SALARY BONUS
Richard M. Rosenblatt Chairman and CEO 36 - -
Paul Stahura Chief Strategy Officer - - -
Steven Kydd EVP Studios - - -
Joe Perez EVP Marketing and Product - - -
Courtney Montpas SVP Media for Domains - - -
Larry Fitzgibbon EVP Networks - - -
Sean Muller CTO - - -
Shawn Colo Head of Mergers and Ac- - - -
quisitions
Quinn Daly SVP Corporate Communica- - - -
tions
Charles S. Hilliard President and CFO 42 - -
Deana Bergquist EVP and General Manager, - - -
International
Michael Blend President, Platform Division - - -
Kevin Fink SVP Engineering ~37 - -
DESCRIPTION
Demand Media knows that Internet domains are in demand. The company makes money acquiring domain names. Its portfolio of Web sites mainly exists to sell online ads, though it features content to give site visitors a reason to come back. Former MySpace.com chairman Richard Rosenblatt and Shawn Colo of Spectrum Equity Investors founded Demand Media in 2006. Later that year Demand Media purchased the assets of Internet marketing firm Intermix Media, which had owned and operated MySpace.com before it sold that site to Fox Interactive Media in 2005. Former Intermix Media assets now under Demand Media's control include the entertainment portal Grab.com, how-to site SoYouWanna.com, and online game site Gamerival.com
The Intermix assets represent Demand Media's ninth acquisition. Other purchases include eNom Inc., a domain name registrar based in Bellevue, Washington, and the San Francisco-based eHow Inc., which provides niche content online.
Demand Media investors include Spectrum, Oak Investment Partners, and Generation Partners.
Selected Holdings
Domain Services
- eNom.com
- eNomCentral.com
- .TV premium domains
- Entertainment:
- Cracked.com
- DailyPuppy.com
- DemandStudios.com
- Flowgo.com
- Madblast.com
Games
- Arcadetown.com
- Casesladder.com
- Freewebgames.com
- Gamedelight.com
- Gamerival.com
- Grab.com
- Heavygames.com
- MyLeague.com
Knowledge
- Airliners.net
- Answerbag.com
- eHow.com
- ExpertVillage.com
- SoYouWanna.com
- Outdoor Lifestyle
- Allgetaways.com
- GardenGuides.com
- Golflink.com
- Mountainzone.com
- Runtheplanet.com
- Run.com
- Trails.com
COMPETITORS
- Communicate.com
- IGN Entertainment
- Marchex
- Advertising.com
- Impulse Communications
- Network Solutions
- Topica
- Traffix
- ValueClick
- CBSSports.com
- DoubleClick
- iVillage
FINANCIALS
(Millions U.S. Dollars) 2005 2004 1999 Revenue $79.0 $52.9 $8.9 Net Income - - ($0.4) Employees - 228 67
SERVICE FIRMS
AUDITOR: Moss Adams, LLP, 2008
full enumeration of eNom
eNom media links, contacts, pictures, personals
- eNom at ICANN wiki - http://icannwiki.org/ENom
- wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENom
postal addresses
- eNom, Inc.
15801 NE 24th St.
Bellevue, WA 98008 USA
- Overnight mail to:
eNom, Inc.
10779
5505 N. Cumberland Ave, Ste. 307
Chicago, IL 60656-1471
legal contact
- Legal Department: legal@enom.com
- Send notices of Copyright Infringement to our Bellevue offices adding Atten: Legal to the envelope or subject line.
press
- press releases at http://www.enom.com/inthenews.asp
phone and fax numbers
- contact phone: 425.883.8860
- Support Fax: 425.974.4791
- Accounting Fax: 425.974.4796
members of the board
Sarah Akhtar
John Kane
Billy Watenpaugh
Paul Stahura
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Demand Media information
- Los Angeles Headquarters
1333 Second Street, Suite 100 - Santa Monica, CA 90401
Telephone: +1 310 394 6400
- Seattle Office
15801 NE 24th St., Bellevue, WA 98008
Telephone: +1 425 274 4500
executive board
http://www.demandmedia.com/demand-media-executives.asp
Richard Rosenblatt
- Co-Founder, Chairman and CE
- http://www.richard.tv/
- former CEO of myspace.com
Shawn Colo
- Co-Founder & Head of M&A
- Along with Richard Rosenblatt, Shawn created the original concept and executed the simultaneous acquisitions of eNom, eHow, and several domain name portfolios to create Demand Media.
Charles Hilliard
- President and CFO
Paul Stahura
- Chief Strategy Officer
- Prior to the Demand Media acquisition Paul was the CEO and President of eNom, (www.enom.com) an ICANN accredited registrar and leading provider of domain name registration, hosting, email and other online services.
Sean Muller
- Chief Technology Officer
- Prior to Demand Media, Sean spent 6 years as Vice President for Product Development at eNom, Inc.
Joe Perez
- Executive Vice President, Marketing & Product
Steven Kydd
- Executive Vice President, Studios
Deana Bergquist
- Executive Vice President & General Manager, International
Larry Fitzgibbon
- Executive Vice President, Networks, Demand Media, Inc.
Courtney Montpas
- Senior Vice President, Media for Domains
- http://www.courtneymontpas.tv/
Michael Blend
- President of Platform Division, Demand Media
demandmedia legal
- Our designated agent to receive notification of claimed infringement can be reached at Attn: Copyright Agent, 15801 NE 24th Street, Bellevue, WA 98008; copyright@demandmedia.com; facsimile number 425.974.4780.
press
press@demandmedia.com
Christina Radocha
band managed by Christina Radocha for Ellipse Management
Christina Radocha's channel.tv project
Notes & references
- ↑ http://www.pubcon.com/bios/richard_rosenblatt.htm
- ↑ http://www.answerbag.com/profile/?id=83557
- ↑ http://www.freemyspace.com/misdeeds.htm>
- ↑ http://www.icrossing.com/people/?bio=richard_rosenblatt
- ↑ http://icannwiki.org/Paul_Stahura
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip
- ↑ http://blog.domaintools.com/tags/opoc/ May 2nd, 2007 by Jay Westerdal I thought I would cover an Industry icon in today’s post. Paul Stahura is the COO of Demand Media and Founder of eNom. He is considered by myself and others as one of the most clever people in the domain industry. One of Paul’s recent ideas at the ICANN Lisbon last month was a concept of Secure Blobs for Law Enforcement. What if all registrars output a secure blob at the end of every whois record. This would allow people with decryption keys to decipherer the secured thick whois text. Keys would be given out to law enforcement agencies that access the blobs. Law enforcement would also be kept anonymous to the registrars because their is no way to tell who is looking at the blob and who is looking at the plain text record. The request would appear to be just another whois lookup. Everyone would be able to see the thin contact record (AKA OPOC record) and the thick secure blob would be for anyone with a key. I am not sure if the idea is practical - could international governments share a key? The idea is definitely interesting and would require more thought
- ↑ http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/icann-whois-wg-report-final-1-9.pdf
(...)
6.4 Full access to displayed and un-displayed records
Full access would be access to the entire database of data records that are both
displayed and un-displayed in a form that all are displayed. A means of
displaying the un-displayed records would be needed.
Implementation options:
- Data records may be encrypted and a key supplied
- Data records may be in a password-protected database and a password supplied.
- Existing provisions in certain Registry agreements may provide an alternative implementation option.
- ↑ http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=29813322 John Kane serves as Senior Vice President of Demand Media, Inc. Mr. Kane served as Vice President for Business Development of eNom Inc. He has more than 15 years of experience in Sales, Marketing and Management. For the last nine years he has focused on the online/Internet industry, specifically in the area of domain name management, brand protection and Internet security. Mr. Kane served as Vice President of Name Management & IP Services for the Corporation Service ... Company (CSC). At CSC, he previously held positions as Vice President of Sales and as General Manager of Company Corporation (TCC), which was acquired in 1999. While at CSC, he served as Marketing Task Force Leader during the formation of Afilias where he led initial branding, marketing and public relations efforts for Afilias as it launched INFO top-level domain until permanent staff was hired. Mr. Kane serves as a Director of Afilias Limited, a global provider of domain name registry services.
- ↑ http://www.domainnamenews.com/up-to-the-minute/domain-name-registrar-enomcom-president-resigns/1335 12-14-2007 10:39 pm EDT Domain Name Registrar Enom.com President Resigns: by Adam Strong. Sources confirm that John Kane, who was recently promoted to President of Enom.com is leaving the company. Kane, who was also an Executive VP at Demand Media, the parent company of Enom.com, has put in his resignation.
- ↑ http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=29813322
- ↑ http://www.icannwiki.com/index.php?title=John_Kane&diff=40381&oldid=29051
- ↑ http://www.icannwiki.com/Sarah_Akhtar
- ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/17/fashion/weddings/17AKHTAR.html Sarah Elizabeth Akhtar was married Saturday evening to Dr. Jeffrey Thomas Cooper at the Seattle Art Museum. The Rev. Patrick H. Callahan, a minister of the Federation of Christian Ministries, officiated. Mrs. Cooper, 35, is a senior vice president for legal and business affairs at Demand Media, an Internet start-up company based in Santa Monica, Calif., that operates social networking Web sites. She graduated from the University of Montana and received a law degree from Seattle University. She is a daughter of Bella M. Akhtar and Dr. Syed S. Akhtar of Naples, Fla. Her father is a retired surgeon who specialized in burns at St. Mary’s of Michigan in Saginaw, Mich., where he founded the hospital’s burn unit. Her mother was a registered nurse before becoming the office manager for her husband’s private practice in Saginaw. Dr. Cooper, 36, is a urologist in Renton, Wash. He graduated from Williams and received a medical degree from Western University in Pomona, Calif. He is a son of Sue M. Cooper and Dr. Thomas P. Cooper of Everett, Wash. His mother is a member of the board of the Everett Public Schools. His father is a retired urologist in Everett. The couple met in March 2006 while watching college basketball in a bar in Ms. Akhtar’s Seattle neighborhood. “I was with a friend, and he was with a friend,� she recalled. “I went up to get a drink so I could purposely bump into him because I thought he was attractive. Then we started talking about the games, and we didn’t stop talking.� Ms. Akhtar was impressed that Dr. Cooper could name all of the National Collegiate Athletic Association men’s basketball champions since 1990. Immediately comfortable with each other, the couple discussed everything from family to work and politics and realized that aside from an interest in college basketball, they had many other things in common. Both enjoy playing tennis and golf — they became engaged on the 18th hole at Pebble Beach — and their fathers are physicians. Dr. Cooper, it turned out, had just moved back to Seattle from Michigan, where Ms. Akhtar grew up and where most of Dr. Cooper’s extended family lives. The couple also learned that the bridegroom’s grandparents are neighbors of the bride’s parents and live less than a quarter mile apart in Naples, Fla. “I was stunned to learn we had so many things in common,� Ms. Akhtar said. So was Dr. Cooper. “The coincidences and our mutual interests were amazing, and that’s when I knew I had a chance with her,� he said. “But it was when I saw her play golf that really did it for me.�
- ↑ http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/minutes-dow123tf-01mar05.shtml Martin Garthwaite: Hi, this is actually a presentation of the service provided to eNom by Whois Privacy Protection, Inc. It’s very similar to the Domains by Proxy service where Whois Privacy Protection, Inc. is listed as the registrant and address, phone and fax numbers are provided. An e-mail address is provided. Communications which are set to that contact information is forwarded on to the contact information provided by the underlying registrant. When complaints are received, we have a very low threshold for turning over the underlying information of the party. Basically anybody mentioning the word copyright or trademark or bought or anything can be sent the underlying contact information, and if the complaint is escalated, then we’ll turn off the service so that it’s available generally in the whois though I would note that most people are satisfied to just receive it in response to their initial e-mail. — Martin Garthwaite, eNom lawyer, ICANN WHOIS Task Forces 123 Teleconference Transcription, 01 March 2005
- ↑ http://www.news.com/Survey-Are-domain-registrars-free-speech-friendly/2100-1025_3-6155614.html
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