@westin: i remember the verizon article, mainly because of the title of it. Verizon went out of their way to register all those ****verizon.com domains so that nobody else could register 'em. the article always stuck in my head specifically because they poked fun at verizon by naming the article after one of the domains verizon purchased, "Over The Verizon" (OverTheVerizon.com). it was just a weird name and I don't think someone who wanted to create a hate domain would have even came up with it, lol...