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Above.com and Serves it During DOMAINfest — Verizon Sues

Firm sued over trademark domain names; served during DOMAINfest.

Verizon has filed a federal lawsuit against Above.com, parent firm Trellian, and some of the firm’s key employees (pdf).

Trellian offers a number of keyword and SEO tools. Above.com is best known to the domain name industry for split testing parked domain traffic. It also has an ICANN-accredited domain registrar.

The suit alleges that the defendants use a number of false identities to traffic in trademark-infringing domain names. It alleges the firm has registered, used and/or provided Above.com privacy service to at least 183 domains counting Verizon’s trademarks, counting VerizWireless.com, ActivateVerizon.net, and loginvzw.com.

Court documents show that the firm was served at the Santa Monica Fairmont hotel during this year’s DOMAINfest conference.

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