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If
you follow this column
regularly
you know that Domain Hall of Fame member
David Castello, of Castello
Cities Internet Network, made a
major return to his music industry roots
in 2011 (see our December 2006 Cover
Story on David and his brother Michael
for more on their music career). Last summer
David moved to Nashville (CCIN owns Nashville.com)
to manage red hot
up and coming singer/songwriter BREE
(as well as to play drums in her band). Near
the end of the year David launched his own music
publishing company - Werewolf Publishing
- and today he officially signed his first staff
writer in a deal announced at the Nashville
office of music rights management giant BMI.
It won't surprise you to hear that Werewolf's
first signing was the writer David wanted most -
BMI writer BREE!
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(Left
to right): David Castello, BREE,
BMI’s Bradley Collins and Almon Law’s
Noah C. McPike
after the Werewolf Publishing
announcement of BREE's signing at the BMI office
in Nashville.
(Photo courtesy of Drew Maynard) BREE
and David were in the studio last month working
with Bob Ezrin's
crack engineer, Justin Cortelyou (Ezrin is
one of the top producers in music industry
history having produced albums by Pink
Floyd, Kiss, Alice Cooper, Rod
Stewart and dozens of other heavyweights).
Justin is finishing up the mixes on a new album
by The Darkness, then he will start
mixing the tracks he did with BREE and her band.
David is expecting those final mixes to
be aural dynamite, so don't be surprised
if you see BREE breaking big before this year is
out.
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A couple of
other notes today - domain industry
veterans Mike Robertson and Jen
Sale at DomainGuardians.com
have launched a new monthly domain
brokerage newsletter. If you are
interested in aftermarket domains,
either as a buyer or seller, you will
want to sign
up to receive their list.
Mike and Jen have an endless list of
friends and contacts in the domain
business, so they are very well
positioned to facilitate domain sales -
something they proved when they brokered
the $150,000 sale of eSignature.com
in 2011. |
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In
case you missed it, I also want to call
your attention to an important
article by Internet
Commerce Association Legal Counsel
Phil Corwin that was posted
on the ICA website Friday. Corwin called
on ICANN to launch an
immediate investigation into the UDRP
arbitration practices of the National
Arbitration Forum (NAF). This comes
in the wake of two egregiously unfair
NAF decisions that resulted in domain
names being taken away from their
rightful owners. Noted attorney Paul
Keating has
also blasted
these incredibly unjustified decisions.
Corwin's article includes the letter he
sent to ICANN to bring this situation to
light. Now we will see whether or not
the oversight body is going to let this
kind of malfeasance at NAF stand. |
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