“”I particularly like Verizon’s page for i-want-neiman-marcus.com.
Neiman Marcus is going to clear all of the NM typos out of the registry, and then Verizon is going to serve ads on them for more than 1/3 of all US broadband users.
There is something of a race condition that happens if Verizon’s server load is high, or if for some other reason it doesn’t respond quickly enough. Instead of serving a Verizon search page, the browser will fall over to whatever the default search page is for that browser. In image 4, the browser fell over to MSN Live Search for www.mcirosoft.com. What’s funny is that Microsoft’s own parking page doesn’t serve up “microsoft” as the top link for that typo.
The paid links all seem to come from Yahoo, making Verizon/Yahoo the top TM typo monetizers in the country.”"
Ahhhhh…Verizon…a typosquatter by any other name…
Of course, this is no different than what Gateway and Dell (Dell is another CADNA member) have been doing for some time now (via software):
http://domainnamewire.com/2007/05/14/how-gateway-and-google-are-infringing-your-trademark/
Just so you know, they are not only monetizing non existing domains but also .com typos, such as .CMO
Try and see (frank, screenshot on the way).
Sahar
[...] The irony is Verizon went after iReit and others before for cybersquatting but what they do here isn’t much of a difference. Of course, it is OK because there’s an “opt out” option no one knows about. Bottom line here they do confuse users, as Dr. John berryhill clearly described on Franky’s blog. [...]