AOL, Inc. owns and forwards the domain name NetflixBlog.com to MovieFone.com, a site owned by AOL. Interesting!
UDRPtalk.com had pointed out to me and questioned why would AOL own a trademarked term of a company they do not own (nor appear to invest in) and redirect visitors to NetflixBlog.com to a "movie" site? Very good question!
Clearly, according to whois records for NetflixBlog.com it appears that AOL does own the domain name!
Cybersquatting? Pretty much!
To top it off… AOL forwards the domain name NetflixBlog.com to MovieFone.com, a site they own and even run a Netflix Ad on the site for a free trial to Netflix.
Netflix uses a sub-domain for it’s "real blog" but I think this is a case of some bad blood between two companies and AOL is saying…. look what we can do! Is it cybersquatting? Yep and I’m sure Netflix could win the domain if they wanted to spend the money to fight it.
