Tomatoes for Verisign at NANOG 29

Sat Oct 18 01:42:57 UTC 2003

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: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu]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
>
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> > 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
>
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