Mike Berkens told me that he and some other South Florida domain investors will be meeting with Oversee.net CEO Jeff Kupietzky this evening in Boca Raton, Florida. Since I can’t be in Florida, I wrote a list of questions that I shared with Mike that I would like to see answered.
I think it’s good that Jeff is reaching out, and obviously this is going to be a casual get together rather than a grilling. Additionally, I am sure he won’t be able to address any of the legal issues surrounding the case, so there really isn’t a point in asking those questions.
- When did Oversee learn about bidding by an employee?
- How did Oversee learn that an employee had been bidding?
- Why did nobody ever investigate bidder “halvarez” after so many complaints over the years?
- Did Oversee executives ever try to speak to or meet with “halvarez” who accounted for a % of Snapnames revenue?
- What measures are in place to ensure insider bidding doesn’t happen again?
- How can domain investors trust Snapnames/Oversee when we were assured halvarez was a real bidder for several years?
” I am sure he won’t be able to address any of the legal issues surrounding the case, so there really isn’t a point in asking those questions. ”
If you know that than you know non of these will be answered either. Maybe a little PR as to it wont happen again, otherwise I would be shocked to see any answered straight.
I think the last 2 questions can and should be answered.
I hope they can, be nice to hear specifically what has be implemented.
Also glad to see someone ask the tough questions Elliot, good stuff.
@ Josh
Sadly, these should be the softball questions. Mike’s sent the questions to Jeff, so hopefully he will address them and Mike or someone else will post the answers.
If Mike doesn’t ask the questions then I will tomorrow when I meet with Jeff for an interview.
I’ll be at the meetup tonight, but don’t want to start a riot, lol.
hope you brought your video camera chef.
I did but didn’t shoot any video.
Nothing about SnapNames was brought up during the meetup. I am meeting with Jeff for lunch tomorrow but have a strong feeling that questions about SnapNames is off limits.
So no one mentioned a damn thing to him about anything?
Room full of guys and not one set of balls to be found.
Nope, no one said a word. I think it’s mostly because anyone that had a special interest in the topic spoke to Jeff privately.
Out of 50, I’d guess 5 in the room were even affected.
Only 5, well that changes things a bit I suppose. Wonder how many he sold names to become they dropped, bet thats more than 5.
ment to say BEFORE they dropped.
Which leads me to assume once a registrar like netsol for example shifted control to snap a close eye was not kept on what happened to the name.. or was it?
I bet Nelson has so much crap on so many big players there’s likely a secret hope nothing comes out ever.
Josh? then charge every one of em under the R.I.C.O. statutes then?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racketeer_Influenced_and_Corrupt_Organizations_Act
Re: Other comments above?
Hard hitting investgative journalists you’re not huh?
Answers – http://www.chefpatrick.com/five-previously-unanswered-halvarez-questions/
@ Patrick
Nice interview!