Comments on: Court Awards Verizon Record $33 Million Dollar Judgment In a Cybersquatting Case

By: MHB

MHB — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:26:20 +0000

UPDATE

The Appeals Court has upheld this judgment against Online Nic:

http://news.prnewswire.com/DisplayReleaseContent.aspx?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/08-27-2009/0005084108&EDATE=

By: Dave Zan

Dave Zan — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 08:21:17 +0000

Any volunteers?

That’s one catch, going against a deep-pocketed company.

By: Steve M

Steve M — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 00:54:56 +0000

There goes Verizon…calling the kettle black…again.

The reason why they continue to get away with it is because no one’s (yet) been willing to sue them over it.

Any volunteers?

By: Ed - Michigan

Ed - Michigan — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 00:25:38 +0000

Maybe the reason OnlineNIC didn’t show up to defend
themselves is they were packing their bags……?

WHOA,

Ed – Michigan

By: wanna develop

wanna develop — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 22:58:02 +0000

The courts did their job.

Somebody should e-mail the guys over at OnlineNIC.com and get the scoop.

This company may just be going under… They had a good run from 1996 – 2008 (2009??)

Now everybody who has names at OnlineNIC is going to be pulling them… Although most of their clients are web hosts/wholesale resellers.

Best,
Mike

http://www.wannadevelop.com

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By: Elliot

Elliot — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 18:48:10 +0000

Were these names owned by the registrar, or was this company the registrar of record for them? Although a judgement like this makes the legitimate companies in our industry look bad, I think it also puts many people on notice that while TM names may make revenue, all and more could be lost with a single lawsuit.

By: Meanwhile

Meanwhile — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 17:13:24 +0000

Just went back to my machine that was serving the typos, and it appears another major corp has taken their place (and coincidentally serves up Google ads paid for by Verizon Wireless for Verizon domain typos).

I don’t know if Verizon is still doing the typo error page thing, but I know they were for a while.

By: Meanwhile

Meanwhile — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 16:41:34 +0000

I can’t get over the hypocrisy here. I have Verizon broadband, and when I accidentally mistype domains into the browser, they are clearly monetizing domains in a similar fashion. Mistyped URLs show paid links to landing pages of my competitors, and other large corporation are also having the same thing happen to their typos – it is so blatant. Verizon is monetizing major trademarks on a massive scale, and there is no difference between what they do, and what this other company does.

The “victim” facade they portray is insulting to the senses. I know they are a huge corporation, but it sounds like the Verizon legal team needs to schedule a conference call and introduce themselves to their own internal Verizon typosquatting team.

By: dp

dp — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 16:20:05 +0000

Meanwhile, the daily email of “Most Popular Backordered Domains” from Pool.com still has a large population of trademark typos in it. Often typos so far removed from the original you’d be amazed anyone would *ever* type it in.