If you were a multi million dollar company and someone was registering domains that could be accidentally typed in by a user trying to find your site (think hardpoc for example) simply to bait unsuspecting customers in to bombard them with ads and turn a profit, you’d be a little miffed right? Well so are a lot of companies as the practice of domain tasting is growing daily.
Sarah Deutsch is steaming. The attorney for Verizon Communications (VZ) regularly scours the Web from her Arlington (Va.) office and finds hundreds of new sites that use variations of Verizon's name. A mid-December browse uncovers a constellation of Verizon-inspired domains such as verizonpicture.com, vorizonringtone.com, and varizoncellularphone.com.