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Wouldn't it be just as easy to pay GoDaddy $9 per year and do a redirect yourself instead of relying on a verisign that half the knowledgable network ops community has filtered/blackholed? Eric > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of > Kenny Sallee > Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 4:03 PM > To: Matt Levine; Dan Riley > Cc: NANOG > Subject: Re: Tomatoes for Verisign at NANOG 29 > > > > > > Has anybody thought to explore the trademark > > implications of sitefinder? > > > > For example, verisign is returning A records (and > > subsequently earning > > revenue from that traffic) for say: > > > > COKE-SOFT-DRINK.COM > > TIDE-DETERGENT.COM > > > > etc.. > > > > >From another perspective, it could be how Verisign > plans on making money off this. If they can redirect > to their own Site Finder site, I'm sure they can > redirect to other large corporations, who would > probably pay for that kind of service. Buy this > service, user types www.coke-soft-drink.com, and gets > redirected automatically to www.coke.com. > Corporations now have a much broader reach then > yesterday. They'd make a deal on the trademark thing, > if there is one. > > Kenny > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search > http://shopping.yahoo.com >
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