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*Guns.com - $800,000

~~==Premium Improvements==~~

Moniker.com announced that it was planning on improving user interface and domain acquisition by putting up fewer domains in its Premium Live auction on February 3, 2011. There will will be no more than 100 domains, and it is only scheduled to last 90 minutes. The extended auction will include less than 500 domains and last two weeks. Previously, the extended auction had over 5,000 domain names, the work involved in presenting these and sorting through them likely inspired the slimmed down auctions.<ref>[http://domainnamewire.com/2011/01/25/moniker-auction-bulks-up-by-slimming-down/ Domain Name Wire]</ref>

==Monte Cahn, Moniker, and Oversee==

In 2008, Moniker was purchased by [[Oversee.net]] for $35 million USD. It had previously been acquired by [[Seevast]] in 2005.<ref>[http://www.seevast.com/news.html Seevast.com]</ref> Part of the acquisition of Moniker by Oversee stipulated that its Founder and CEO, [[Monte Cahn]], come along as the President of Moniker for 3 years. During this time he also filled other roles within the company, such as President of [[SnapNames]].<ref>[http://www.blueglass.com/speakers/monte-cahn/ BlueGlass.com]</ref> He left in December, 2010; in May, 20111 he filed a lawsuit against his former employer.<ref>[http://www.dnjournal.com/archive/lowdown/2011/dailyposts/20110505.htm DNJournal.com]</ref> He filed suit against Oversee, and named its CEO, [[Jeff Kupietzky]], and its founder, [[Lawrence Ng]]; the suit was over alleged non-payment of a $13 million USD incentive plan.<ref>[http://domainnamewire.com/2011/05/04/monte-cahn-sues-oversee-net-over-13-million-incentive-plan/ DomainNameWire.com]</ref>

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 *Guns.com - $800,000
-==Premium Improvements==
-Moniker.com announced that it was planning on improving user interface and domain acquisition by putting up fewer domains in its Premium Live auction on February 3, 2011. There will will be no more than 100 domains, and it is only scheduled to last 90 minutes. The extended auction will include less than 500 domains and last two weeks. Previously, the extended auction had over 5,000 domain names, the work involved in presenting these and sorting through them likely inspired the slimmed down auctions.<ref>[http://domainnamewire.com/2011/01/25/moniker-auction-bulks-up-by-slimming-down/ Domain Name Wire]</ref>
 ==Monte Cahn, Moniker, and Oversee==
 In 2008, Moniker was purchased by [[Oversee.net]] for $35 million USD. It had previously been acquired by [[Seevast]] in 2005.<ref>[http://www.seevast.com/news.html Seevast.com]</ref> Part of the acquisition of Moniker by Oversee stipulated that its Founder and CEO, [[Monte Cahn]], come along as the President of Moniker for 3 years. During this time he also filled other roles within the company, such as President of [[SnapNames]].<ref>[http://www.blueglass.com/speakers/monte-cahn/ BlueGlass.com]</ref> He left in December, 2010; in May, 20111  he filed a lawsuit against his former employer.<ref>[http://www.dnjournal.com/archive/lowdown/2011/dailyposts/20110505.htm DNJournal.com]</ref> He filed suit against Oversee, and named its CEO, [[Jeff Kupietzky]], and its founder, [[Lawrence Ng]]; the suit was over  alleged non-payment of a $13 million USD incentive plan.<ref>[http://domainnamewire.com/2011/05/04/monte-cahn-sues-oversee-net-over-13-million-incentive-plan/ DomainNameWire.com]</ref>