ICANN accredited registrar OnlineNIC "unlawfully registered at least 663 domain names that were either identical to or confusingly similar to Verizon trademarks". A federal court in the Northern District of California calculated an award based on $50,000 per domain name and awarded Verizon $33.15 million. http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2008/12/22/daily39.html Thanks to George Kirikos for bringing this news to our attention on the GA list. Now we will wait and see what, if any, action ICANN takes. As George notes: OnlineNIC is a top 20 registrar with more than 1 million domains under management: http://www.registrarstats.com/Public/RegistrarMarketShareMain.aspx Meanwhile, I have asked ICANN Staff to look into whether Daniel Sundin, the head of Red Register (another ICANN accredited registrar and a recent recipient of an ICANN Breach Notice), is the same Daniel Sundin cited in a recent FTC complaint that dealt with a massive "scareware" scheme, which falsely claimed that scans had detected viruses, spyware, and illegal pornography on consumers’ computers. see http://www.ftc.gov/os/caselist/0723137/index.shtm