Abuse: Cybersquatting
Wikipedia defines “cybersquatting” as the following:
Cybersquatting, according to the United States federal law known as the Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, is registering, trafficking in, or using a domain name with bad-faith intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to someone else. The cybersquatter then offers to sell the domain to the person or company who owns a trademark contained within the name at an inflated price.
An example of this practice would be someone that buys the “iphone.com” domain after Apple Computer announces a new product called the “iPhone” and then tries to sell it to Apple at a very high price.
Most companies, like Apple Computer, do not approve of other entities including Apple branded or trademarked names (“apple ipod”) in a domain name.
Some people think domain name parking, in any form, is the same as cybersquatting. Someone who is leveraging the traffic from say a category name (“digitalcamera.com) but has nothing to do with the digital camera business. People in the digital camera business are now locked out of the ability to use this domain.
Written by admin on June 2nd, 2007 with
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