[64242] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Tomatoes for Verisign at NANOG 29
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John_York@Dell.com)
Fri Oct 17 16:20:55 2003
From: John_York@Dell.com
To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 15:19:36 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenny Sallee
> Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 3:03 PM
> To: Matt Levine; Dan Riley
> Cc: NANOG
> Subject: Re: Tomatoes for Verisign at NANOG 29
>
>
> From another perspective, it could be how Verisign
> plans on making money off this. If they can redirect
> to their own Site Finder site, I'm sure they can
> redirect to other large corporations, who would
> probably pay for that kind of service. Buy this
> service, user types www.coke-soft-drink.com, and gets
> redirected automatically to www.coke.com.
> Corporations now have a much broader reach then
> yesterday. They'd make a deal on the trademark thing,
> if there is one.
>
> Kenny
Wouldn't it be easier (sheaper) to just buy the domain
www.coke-soft-drink.com? Or maybe you meant www.*coke*.com and
www.*soft-drink*.com would be redirected?
