According to popular theory, we should either have the Verizon iPhone confirmed at CES later this week, or not hear anything and keep on scuttlebutting about it amongst ourselves until it eventually does come out.
The latest fodder for Verizon iPhone rumor mongering? Verizon’s Trademark services department has just snatched up iphoneforverizon.com and iphoneonverizon.com… a couple of two year old domains purchased from the previous owner (and alleged link farmer) Jim Benton.
Honestly, this is probably just business as usual, in which a company protects its trademark and brand by snatching up domains. Still, the very fact that this news hit during the week the Verizon iPhone is rumored (almost definitely wrongly) to debut was pretty choice timing.
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
