According to this WSJ.com article, District Court in California has awarded $33.2 million in a suit by Verizon Communications Inc. against San Francisco OnlineNIC. OnlineNIC was accused of registering hundreds of domain names similar to Verizon’s to attract Web users.
Verizon said OnlineNIC Inc. set up at least 663 domain names that were “either identical to or confusingly similar to Verizon trademarks.” The “bad-faith registrations” were intended to lure unsuspecting Internet users looking for Verizon’s real Web site, Verizon said.
