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Domain Tasting: The Great Internet Brand Rip-Off

  • Dec 15, 2006 1:32 PM PDT
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The growing practice of "domain tasting" is creating junk Web sites and big headaches for companies… Sarah Deutsch, the attorney for Verizon Communications is steaming — she 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 a constellation of Verizon-inspired domains such as verizonpicture.com, vorizonringtone.com, and varizoncellularphone.com…

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Re: Domain Tasting: The Great Internet Brand Rip-Off Frank Schilling  –  Dec 19, 2006 7:04 PM PDT

Editor's Note: Frank Schilling's valuable two part entry posted here was made a featured post and can now be read in its entirety below:

The Closing Window: A Historical Analysis of Domain Tasting

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