Verizon Awarded $33 Million In Cyber-Squatting Case – Wins $50,000 for some 663 different domains…

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31 Dec 2008


Verizon has been awarded .2 million in a lawsuit against Internet services company OnlineNic, who registered hundreds of domain names with Verizon trademarks. According to Verizon, the cybersquatted upon some 663 different Verizon-related addresses, including myverizonwireless.com, iphoneverizonplans.com and verizon-cellular.com. Verizon ultimately wanted some .3 million in damages, but will have to settle with half of that — an award of roughly ,000 per domain. Of course OnlineNIC didn’t appear in court, and goes to great lengths to conceal their real operations — meaning Verizon will have trouble actually collecting.
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