> Verizon is the new name of the Bell Atlantic-GTE merger.
> BA pre-emptively registered "verizonsucks.com"
Yes, well... One supposes that they'd be in a position to know.
> So an organization registered "verizonreallysucks.com"
>
> Showing a rather pathetic lack of a sense of humor, not to
> mention a lack of better things to do with her time, Bell
> Atlantic's lawyer Sarah Deutsch sent a letter that asserted,
> among other things:
>
> "your registration and/or use of these domain names infringes
> Bell Atlantic's valuable trademark rights in the "Verizon" mark
> and violates the new Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection
> Act (the "Anticybersquatting Act")Accordingly, unless you
> immediately agree to take the steps set forth below, including
> ceasing any use of the "Verizon" and "Bell
> Atlantic" marks and transferring the domain name
> VERIZONREALLYSUCKS.COM to Bell Atlantic, Bell
> Atlantic intends to proceed under the federal Trademark Act,
> including the Anticybersquatting Act, by filing suit to protect
> its
> rights in federal court."
I hope they get a nice frame to hang that one on the wall.
"How to boost a web site's hit rate in one easy step"...
It almost makes you sad that IsAnIdiot.com is already taken.
