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I was trying to go to Books-A-Million's web site to find something to spend
that left-over gift card on that I got for Christmas. Strangely enough, it
redirected to VZW's web site. I checked out the owner and VZW has owned the
site since 1994. Anyone have any idea why in the world they'd own this
site? Some acquired company from years past?

Curious,
Stephen
 
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S. Byers wrote:
> I was trying to go to Books-A-Million's web site to find something to spend
> that left-over gift card on that I got for Christmas. Strangely enough, it
> redirected to VZW's web site. I checked out the owner and VZW has owned the
> site since 1994. Anyone have any idea why in the world they'd own this
> site? Some acquired company from years past?

Ummmm...

BAM = Bell Atlantic Mobile. Verizon = GTE + Bell Atlantic. :)

Bell Atlantic must have either grabbed the domain name after it expired, or
purchased it from the original owner.

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Steve Sobol wrote:
>
> S. Byers wrote:
> > I was trying to go to Books-A-Million's web site to find something to spend
> > that left-over gift card on that I got for Christmas. Strangely enough, it
> > redirected to VZW's web site. I checked out the owner and VZW has owned the
> > site since 1994. Anyone have any idea why in the world they'd own this
> > site? Some acquired company from years past?
>
> Ummmm...
>
> BAM = Bell Atlantic Mobile. Verizon = GTE + Bell Atlantic. :)
>
> Bell Atlantic must have either grabbed the domain name after it expired, or
> purchased it from the original owner.

Try http://www.booksamillion.com.

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or www.bamm.com

"Notan" <notan@ddress.com> wrote in message
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> Steve Sobol wrote:
>>
>> S. Byers wrote:
>> > I was trying to go to Books-A-Million's web site to find something to
>> > spend
>> > that left-over gift card on that I got for Christmas. Strangely
>> > enough, it
>> > redirected to VZW's web site. I checked out the owner and VZW has
>> > owned the
>> > site since 1994. Anyone have any idea why in the world they'd own this
>> > site? Some acquired company from years past?
>>
>> Ummmm...
>>
>> BAM = Bell Atlantic Mobile. Verizon = GTE + Bell Atlantic. :)
>>
>> Bell Atlantic must have either grabbed the domain name after it expired,
>> or
>> purchased it from the original owner.
>
> Try http://www.booksamillion.com.
>
> Notan
 
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Thanks :) I was able to find the Books-A-Million site. Just thought it
was interesting about the bam.com link with VZW.


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> or www.bamm.com
>
> "Notan" <notan@ddress.com> wrote in message
> news:42058E1F.3E9DB189@ddress.com...
>> Steve Sobol wrote:
>>>
>>> S. Byers wrote:
>>> > I was trying to go to Books-A-Million's web site to find something to
>>> > spend
>>> > that left-over gift card on that I got for Christmas. Strangely
>>> > enough, it
>>> > redirected to VZW's web site. I checked out the owner and VZW has
>>> > owned the
>>> > site since 1994. Anyone have any idea why in the world they'd own
>>> > this
>>> > site? Some acquired company from years past?
>>>
>>> Ummmm...
>>>
>>> BAM = Bell Atlantic Mobile. Verizon = GTE + Bell Atlantic. :)
>>>
>>> Bell Atlantic must have either grabbed the domain name after it expired,
>>> or
>>> purchased it from the original owner.
>>
>> Try http://www.booksamillion.com.
>>
>> Notan
>
>
 
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On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 04:36:07 GMT, "S. Byers"
<stephen@REMOVETHIScompsciguyREMOVETHIS.com> wrote:

>Thanks :) I was able to find the Books-A-Million site. Just thought it
>was interesting about the bam.com link with VZW.

Also in this line of companies:

BAM = Bell Atlantic Mobile + NYNEX Mobile (they merged before BA
merged with NYNEX).

Verizon = Bell Atlantic (south) + Bell Atlantic (North) (formerly
NYNEX) + GTE + Contel (GTE bought them in 1991)

Verizon Wireless = Airtouch + Bell Atlantic Mobile + NYNEX Mobile +
GTE Wireless + a TON of smaller companies!

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"S. Byers" wrote:
>
> I was trying to go to Books-A-Million's web site to find something to spend
> that left-over gift card on that I got for Christmas. Strangely enough, it
> redirected to VZW's web site. I checked out the owner and VZW has owned the
> site since 1994. Anyone have any idea why in the world they'd own this
> site? Some acquired company from years past?
>
> Curious,
> Stephen

bam = Bell Atlantic Mobile Verizon's name before a merger or two.
I used Google to search for Books-a-million and got
www.booksamillion.com

LB
 
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On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 19:13:07 -0800, Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net>
wrote:
>BAM = Bell Atlantic Mobile. Verizon = GTE + Bell Atlantic. :)
>
>Bell Atlantic must have either grabbed the domain name after it expired, or
>purchased it from the original owner.

I believe Bell Atlantic Mobile owned bam.com from the beginning.

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On 06 Feb 2005 in alt.cellular.verizon, Bob Scheurle wrote:

> I believe Bell Atlantic Mobile owned bam.com from the beginning.

All the way back to 1996:

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://bam.com/

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BAM stands for Bell Atlantic Mobile. Then it became Bell Atlantic/Nynex.
Then finally Verizon Wireless.

S. Byers wrote:
> I was trying to go to Books-A-Million's web site to find something to spend
> that left-over gift card on that I got for Christmas. Strangely enough, it
> redirected to VZW's web site. I checked out the owner and VZW has owned the
> site since 1994. Anyone have any idea why in the world they'd own this
> site? Some acquired company from years past?
>
> Curious,
> Stephen
>
>
 
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Joe Makowiec wrote:
> On 06 Feb 2005 in alt.cellular.verizon, Bob Scheurle wrote:
>
>
>>I believe Bell Atlantic Mobile owned bam.com from the beginning.
>
>
> All the way back to 1996:
>
> http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://bam.com/
>

Ahh yes. 1996 was back when BAM was charging 5 cents per minute in
addition to your airtime (or just 12 cents per call regardless of
duration, in some of the luckier coverage areas) to put your call
through to a local landline phone. It's in the fine print at:

http://web.archive.org/web/19970116070640/http://www.bam.com/Nydigtal.htm

The claim was that Bell Atlnatic, the mobile telephone company, was
assessed a landline interconnect fee by Bell Atlantic, the local phone
company. Even though it was all really the same entity, and the
competing cellular carrier (then Comcast Cellular One, which later
became a part of Cingular) and Sprint PCS didn't seem to have this same
attached fee. :)

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