Verizon grabbing iPhone domains
A report circulating over the holiday weekend suggests Verizon is buying up Verizon iPhone-related domain names in anticipation of an impending CDMA iPhone launch. The domain names, iphoneonverizon.com and iphoneforverizon.com, were transferred to Verizon Wireless Trademark Services, LLC, a company that also holds the main Verizonwireless.com domain.
While hopes are high that Apple and Verizon will unveil a new iPhone model in the upcoming months, the purchase of a few domain names is not a reliable indicator of an impending launch. As MacRumors points out, the domain names in question, iphoneonverizon.com and iphoneforverizon.com, were transferred to Verizon Wireless back in 2008, but have sat idle in the intervening years. Rather than a dummy page at Verizon, the domains apparently still point to the original link farms. If Verizon had big plans for these domains, they most likely would not point to a worthless link farm.
In the end, this rumor does little to confirm or deny the existence of an upcoming Verizon iPhone. We do think a Verizon iPhone is possible in the future, but we need more evidence than a few domain names to convince us that its debut is right around the corner. Show us a CDMA model you picked up in a bar, and then we can have this conversation again.
