Domain Tasting article on Yahoo

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See Anything Odd About "Vorizon"?
Friday December 29, 4:04 pm ET
By Moira Herbst

Sarah B. Deutsch is steaming. The Verizon Communications (NYSE:VZ - News) lawyer regularly scours the Web from her Arlington (Va.) office and finds hundreds of new sites that use variations of Verizon's name. A mid-December browse uncovers domain names such as verizonpicture.com, vorizonringtone.com, and varizoncellularphone.com. But none of the sites has anything to do with Verizon. They're registered by companies such as Wan-Fu China Ltd. in Nassau, the Bahamas, and Maltuzi Holdings in Mountain View, Calif.

link to Full article:

http://biz.yahoo.com/bizwk/061229/b4016067.html

 

[Ian]

very interesting read...thanks for the article. Might be interesting to hear what Moniker has to say about this.

 

[Dave Zan]

Note the irony pointed out by Dr. Berryhill in the link below:

http://www.circleid.com/posts/1489/#2817

If the author of that article in Yahoo dug deeper, s/he would've realized that
Verizon themselves are fully capable of getting into the game.

 

[Monte]

registration of TM names is never good. Tasting of domains is fine with us...Kiting is not fine. There is a huge difference between the two.

we offer tasting to our customers so you can find the right domains and increase the value of your portfolio.

Kiting is the practice of registering, deleting, and re-registering the same names over and over again so you never have to pay the registration fee.