Tomatoes for Verisign at NANOG 29

Fri Oct 17 20:19:36 UTC 2003

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenny Sallee
> Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 3:03 PM
> To: Matt Levine; Dan Riley
> Cc: NANOG
> Subject: Re: Tomatoes for Verisign at NANOG 29
> 
> 
> 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

Wouldn't it be easier (sheaper) to just buy the domain
www.coke-soft-drink.com? Or maybe you meant www.*coke*.com and
www.*soft-drink*.com would be redirected?