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Domain Tasting: The Great Internet Brand Rip-Off
- Dec 15, 2006 1:32 PM PST
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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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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