Interesting story in Valleywag yesterday about how I'm pissing off John Battelle bysquatting his nom du com, JohnBattelle.com. I happened to be the registrant forall domains Jason had back in the Silicon Alley Reporter days and I don't thinkI've ever met John Battelle, so it would be kind of silly for him to be mad atme. Fortunately, Valleywag did an update that explains why the domainregistration has my name on it. Between SAR, Weblogs, Inc. and my own projectsI have had my name on at least 3000 domain registrations so maybe I have moreenemies than I'm aware of.
I must add that I'm a huge fan of Battelle's Web 2.0 event since AOL CEO JonMiller confirmed the Weblogs, Inc. deal on his stage last October. Who wouldn'tlove an event like that?
Thanks to Valleywag for putting so much time and effort into the infographicand for using a more flattering picture than Jason's.
GrimJack
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Alex Rudloff 850 days ago
OMG! i cant b3leiv u wer on valy w4g! that iz so aw3some!!!1!
Nick Douglas 849 days ago
I have a feeling the other 2999+ domains aren't names of your competitors. But even if he's never heard of you, his real beef is against Calacanis for threatening to call John out on his own name's domain.
Brian Alvey 849 days ago
<< I have a feeling the other 2999 domains aren't names of your competitors. >>
Probably no more than 40 or 50 of them are competitors or ex-competitors of Jason's. ;-)
Kind of crazy that all of these domains from 2000 and 2001 still have my name on them when I can't sign in and change them since I don't own them or know who owns them now.