Earlier this week, Verizon was awarded the  amount of $33.15 million in its cybersqatting lawsuit against OnlineNIC, a domain aggregator that had registered hundreds of Web sites with the company’s name and trademark.

The trial took place in Northern California and the federal court assigned to handle the case decided that Online NIC must pay $50,000 for each one of the 633 domains discovered by Verizon to resemble to its pages, confuse and also iritate the company’s customers.

OnlineNIC was responsable for Web pages such as myverizonwireless.com, iphoneverizonplans.com, 123verizonphones.com and verizononline.com which attracted many users who were presented with ad links and pop-under advertisements. These actions led to some significant revenue for OnlineNIC.

Even though the decision was given, there might be a problem with finding the people behind the company and collecting the fees. So far, nobody showed up in court on behaf of OnlineNIC and there are no clear clues on where to find its developers. The company appears to be based in San Francisco, but the Web sites present an Oakland, California  mailing address.

The company might soon get in a lot more trouble, as many of its more than 900,000 domains resemble to popular companies such as Yahoo, Google, Adidas and MySpace, and each one has the right to take OnlineNIC to court just like Verizon did.

Still, Verizon’s officials explained through a recent statement that the judgment "should send a clear message and serve to deter cybersquatters who continue to run businesses for the primary purpose of misleading consumers."