After showing my powerpoints illustrating how Google Microsoft, and even ISPs run ads against trademarks and typos thereof (thanks, Frank, for teaching this to me), I honed in on Verizon’s new advanced web search, repeating Dr. Berryhiil’s findings as to how Verizon/Yahoo serve up, in response to I-Want-Sprint-Cellphones.com, a host of ad links none of which lead to Sprint. Sarah promptly admonished me for “attacking” Verizon (to which I retorted it was hardly an attack, just a factual description of what they serve up, and then went on to say that they were late to a game that most other ISPs engaged in (which I felt kinda reiterated my point), how they let consumers opt out, how they serve up some natural search results and provide a link to Sprint (which is not what John reported), and how this is really just a useful customer service and not that nasty infringement that domainers engage in.

Then they beat me with a rubber hose (just kidding…;-)

Actually, I got some positive feedback after. But Verizon at least is dead serious about creating a trademark regime that is a domain hijacker’s wet dream.

Your ICA at work…

And, A persons right to a successful Intentional Navigation, is as basic a Right, as any of the Rights we are Given in the U.S. Constitutions Bill of Rights, in my thinking.

Yes, this is new untried unwritten Law, but none the less, it is a self evident Right that everyone should expect to enjoy.

So listen up Verisign, Verizon, MS, Mozilla, ISP’s and any other SOB’s thats wants to determine where I go, other than where I Intended to be.

Don’t mess with MY INTENT (or remove/hinder my ability to navigate to where I want and intend/ed to go) or I’ll/We’ll sue you, in a Court of Law.

And make the Right to Intentional Navigation a Law.

I would think, that there is plenty of sited Case’s, Legal Decisions, and existing Law’s, that already cover prohibition of Restraint of Trade by a common carrier of goods and or services, that would be applicable, and provide grounds for a successful Legal Action, that would stop the practice, now.