Big Companies Pursuing Cybersquatters and Typosquatters

There was a Bloomberg article published on the Seattle Post-Intelligencer regarding recent lawsuits Microsoft was bringing against trademark infringing domainers.

Microsoft Corp. has filed three lawsuits in the U.S. against people and companies it accuses of profiting from the use of Web site addresses containing its trademarked terms.

The suits target cybersquatting or typosquatting, practices that divert Internet users seeking Microsoft Web sites by using similar or slightly misspelled domain names, according to the complaints filed this week in federal courts in New York, Seattle and Fort Wayne, Ind.

The article mentions that Dell, Time Warner, Wal-Mart, and Yahoo are planning similar suits.

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