Wrong man accused for Sedo/SnapNames snafu.
A full five years ago, a DNForum member posted his plight related to a domain acquisition that materialized on Sedo.
In April 2008, he accused ICAP Media and Jeffrey Tognetti of hijacking the domain which was allegedly pushed into Tognetti’s Sedo account.
“I had bought a domain on sedo two month ago. It took about one month for the seller to finally hand over the domain to sedo, but when Sedo finally obtained the domain they accidentally pushed the domain into the wrong Manage.Snapnames.com account. Now one month later Jeffrey Tognetti still hasn’t pushed the domain back to Sedo. I receive outrageous and unprofessional emails from Jeffrey Tognetti practically making fun of me. He even dares to call me the scammer… The “company” he is related to is ICAP Media and he owns more than 4000 domains, So I was wondering does anyone know this guy or has anyone done any business with this guy? I am the most disappointed in manage.snapnames.com. Why won’t they cooperate with a company like Sedo. Sedo has already contacted them and told them about this issue but snapnames still hasn’t undone this push.”
Apparently, the accusations were baseless.
A month or so later, the same person updated the information that was made available to him by Sedo, that treated the sale as incomplete and released the deadbeat seller’s information to the buyer.
“Ok guys now here’s a plot I didn’t expected this issue would take. It seems that ICAP Media really had bought the domain on Snapnames.com. The seller is the one which is to blaim. The seller is a member here and his account is: CommercialDomains. What he has done is first he sold the domain on sedo.com he didn’t liked the price the domain sold for so he never completed the transaction I was in with sedo. After one month of pushing ComercialDomains to hand over the domain to Sedo so that sedo could complete the transaction he finally did that but in mean time he also sold the domain on snapnames! And the domain was registered at snapnames so snapnames took the domain out of sedo’s escrow account and gave the domain to ICAP Media. Conclusion CommercialDomains is a pathedic domainer which doesn’t honours binding sales.”
The problem is, that the DNForum thread is indexed by Google, citing Jeffrey Tognetti as the culprit, when it is clear that he simply bought the domain from the owner.
Jeffrey Tognetti now wants his name cleared, and rightfully so.
“My name is Jeff Tognetti, and I am the person referenced in this thread, as it became obvious to the gentleman who started this thread that I was not at fault and did NOT hijack a domain. Unfortunately this post is indexed and could potentially “ding” my reputation so I would like it to be clear.”
What a mess! Let’s hope that the Jeffrey Tognetti’s name will be cleared. You can read about the full incident here.
This post is 100% true!
Good thing this was all cleared. One way or another…
What interests me is Sedo’s continuous contact to SnapNames who did not respond at all, seems there’s enough business going on between companies that there should be more adequate communication.