When Verizon was created, the new corporation grabbed the domain
verizon.com
as its corporate home site. They also snapped up possible
anti-Verizon
domains such as verizonsucks.com, verizon-sucks.com,
verizon-blows.org,
verizon-shits.net, verizon-stinks.com, and myriad more
permutations of the
above.
The hacker magazine 2600 felt that Verizon was domain squatting,
which was
supposedly an illegal practice. In order to convince Verizon
that its
strategy of buying every domain including negative use of the
name "Verizon"
was absurd, the magazine registered verizonreallysucks.com. It
was
immediately hit with legal threats by Verizon claiming the
domain was
protected by trademark law in the Anti-cybersquatting Consumer
Protection
Act.
2600 quickly ditched the domain, handing it to Communication Works of
America. Just to pique Verizon's further ire, they registered
verizonshouldspendmoretimefixingitsnetworkandlessmoneyonlawyers.com
afterwards. Verizon did not take the bait on this one. Spokesman
Larry Plumb
said Verizon was "out to defend our brand against confusion and
dilution,
not squelch free speech."
The domain redirects to 2600.com, and it is sometimes used by
school kids
who want to read 2600 but are blocked by censoring software
like Bess.
http://www.domainhandbook.com/dd3.html,
2600 magazine.
This node was previously titled "verizonshouldspendmoretimefixingitsnetworkandlessmoneyonlawyers.com", but that screwed up the softlinks. Sorry 'bout that, dannye.