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[Focus]

Hey JP what's wrong with driving fancy cars? :laugh:

vrrrrooooooooooooooooooooooooooooommmmmmmmmmmm

And I certainly agree Juniper, no "due diligence" was performed imo

 

[thevirtual]

I believe Snapnames did know about this all along. As their statements on this forum were to the affect that anyone could do what halvarez was doing. They may have been right. If this employee was simply blanket bidding using info that anyone could get with a bit of programming skills, do you think they would have a problem with that? Evidently not.

I don't think it is possible that they could have believe this was not one of their employees.

 

[Theo]

A link to a VERY interesting blog post.

It seems that iReit bought a portfolio of domains from "halvarez" in 2006 - the article quotes:

Tracking some of the halvarez domains indicates that he may have sold a significant portfolio to iREIT in November 2006, although a call and e-mail to iREIT were not returned as of this writing. If Brady was focusing on traffic domains, purchasing with insider parking information and then flipping them to iREIT would make for a rock-solid business model.

 

[DN BROKER]

A link to a VERY interesting blog post.

It seems that iReit bought a portfolio of domains from "halvarez" in 2006 - the article quotes:

Acro you ROCK.. keep digging us more info I could use your detective skills on my pending issue with PP!

 

[Focus]

Dare I mention Bonkers? lol

Maybe I missed the boat on that dude, did we ever figure out who Bonkers is/was?

Not another shill I hope...

I have a nagging feeling that more than one shill account exists, there is no way possible it's just one named "halvarez" there must be others. For every 10% you actually know about after the fact, there is another 90% to the whole story.

 

[ohkus]

So.....where is John Berryhill on this. I know John must have done some big deals in this area. Would John represent domainers in this case?

 

[Misak]

Bonkers was real...

 

[Seraphim]

I've seen dropping European city geo .coms end up in Tucows hands, despite there not being an auction. These particular losing registrars usually dropped into Snap's pool, the domains were even listed as dropping right until the last day in the control panel... and then poof they're gone. The domains got picked off before the drop by someone, no mysteries...

This Snap fiasco is just sharks eating sharks, the real reason why this went down today = $$$ shortages somewhere... The specifics will never surface. I also doubt any outcome will surface, legal, criminal, or otherwise.

 

[DN BROKER]

So.....where is John Berryhill on this. I know John must have done some big deals in this area. Would John represent domainers in this case?

I like to know as well if John will represent our community!

 

[JuniperPark]

Important note for those of you searching email archives -- Mr. Nelson used at least 2 email addresses:

[email protected]
[email protected]

He was there since at least 2003... lots of emails in my box from him.

 

[DN BROKER]

Important note for those of you searching email archives -- Mr. Nelson used at least 2 email addresses:

[email protected]
[email protected]

He was there since at least 2003... lots of emails in my box from him.

Thank you, noted k:

 

[Focus]

I would certainly hope he (John Berryhill) might get involved but I am not sure that he deals with litigation/fraud...maybe he does? I'll give him a call and see what he's up to.

He is the best there is when it comes to this business of domains. k:

 

[Beachie]

Dare I mention Bonkers? lol

Maybe I missed the boat on that dude, did we ever figure out who Bonkers is/was?

Not another shill I hope...

I have a nagging feeling that more than one shill account exists, there is no way possible it's just one named "halvarez" there must be others. For every 10% you actually know about after the fact, there is another 90% to the whole story.

Bonkers is definitely real - I know who he is and I've done business with him.

 

[DN BROKER]

I would certainly hope he (John Berryhill) might get involved but I am not sure that he deals with litigation/fraud...maybe he does? I'll give him a call and see what he's up to.

He is the best there is when it comes to this business of domains. k:

:uhoh: :shy:

 

[Beachie]

Important note for those of you searching email archives -- Mr. Nelson used at least 2 email addresses:

[email protected]
[email protected]

He was there since at least 2003... lots of emails in my box from him.

I have emails from Nelson dating back to May 2001, back in the days when it was $60 first come first served - I believe he was one of the founders or, at least, built the system from the ground up.

 

[mattbodis]

Bonkers is real. I sold me two letter .coms in the past to him. He works for domain capital.

 

[Theo]

Without user access to the auction history NOONE has recollection of how many auctions they won with Halvarez bidding up! Unless they got burnt for a chunk of money. So Oversee needs to PROVIDE access to auction history NOW.

 

[Focus]

Okay, left Berryhill a vm about this issue, hopefully we can have his qualified representation in this matter per diem considering the scale of this fraud and the potential reparations due to us in a class action settlement.

 

[Wzhxvy]

I know a lot of people are upset and lost a lot of money on this, and want blood. However, before people start giving advice to others on not accepting offers, think about the alternative and what the realistic outcome is.

Alternative: One huge law suit, and this company will be shutdown, declar insolvency, its officers charged, done...dead. And you will get NO MONEY. So is it better to be dead right or take whatever money you can from those crooks now and never use them again.

Likely outcome: They are going under, its a matter of time...I think we all know it.

So no matter which way, lawsuits or waiting it out...you will get no money and the outcome is the same. So if I were you...take whatever you can now...these guys are dead men walking.

 

[JuniperPark]

Okay, left Berryhill a vm about this issue, hopefully we can have his qualified representation in this matter per diem considering the scale of this fraud and the potential reparations due to us in a class action settlement.

Since most of us (non-shill people) will be at Pubcon next week, and John is always speaking there, maybe we should just set up an in-person meeting during the conference?