fedora.com, is this for real?

Keith G. Robertson-Turner fedora-gmane.00005 at genesis-x.nildram.co.uk
Wed Nov 14 15:51:26 UTC 2007


Verily I say unto thee, that Max Spevack spake thusly:
> On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Alan Cox wrote:

>> Possibly a good chance to obtain the domain either nicely or 
>> because its now apparently misusing our marks (Fedora Linux etc) in
>> the content.
> 
> I have asked the folks within Red Hat who handle all the domain stuff
> to look into what it would take to get Fedora.com
> 
> If there is anything interesting to report back, I will!

fedora.com -> information.com -> oversee.net:

Admin Contact
------------------------------------------------------------
Name:                        Host Master
Organization:                Oversee.net
Email:                       hostmaster at oversee.net
Address:                     515 S. Flower Street, Suite 4400
City, Province, Post Code:   Los Angeles, California, 90071
Country:                     US
Phone:                       213-408-0080
Registration provider        nameking.com
Email:                       registry-admin at nameking.com
Address:                     2202 S. Figueroa St. Suite 721
City, Province, Post Code:   Los Angeles, California, 90007
Country:                     US
Phone:                       213-220-5715

There's evidence to suggest that Oversee.net is merely a shell company
for Name King, who does the domain kiting and parking on their behalf:

http://spamlinks.net/blog/archives/2006/09/chesterton_hold.html

2202 S. Figueroa St. Suite 721 is actually "The UPS Store", so you won't
find anyone there worth talking to ( http://www.theupsstore.com ).

OTOH 515 S. Flower Street is a real address, which is an office complex;
home to quite a few lawyers, building contractors, and (ironically) the
Los Angeles Police Foundation:

http://www.lapolicefoundation.org/about.html

Name King's registered headquarters is (not coincidentally):

700 S. Flower Street
Suite 1100
Los Angeles, CA 90017

http://kepler.ss.ca.gov/corpdata/ShowAllList?QueryCorpNumber=C2684545

Oversee.net's CEO is Lawrence Ng:

http://www.oversee.net/management.php

That's probably who Red Hat's lawyers should talk to.




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