Cyber squatting refers to register , using or trafficking a domain name in bad faith with the goal of profiting from a well-known brand name. Once a cybersquatter has the domain name may seek to sell the domain to the company who owns the trademark a higher price or place advertisements on its webpage and get money from those advertisements. Cybersquatting is a major internet problem, which is currently on rise.
Some example of cybersquatting are helpdarfur.com, arackobama.com, unsecuritycouncil.com, http://jonsonbaby.com/, http://georgewbush.org/., www.microosft.com, www.cokacola.com. Therefore, almost all well-known name could be subject to cyber squatting, that includes, companies, politician, international organizations, actors, singers, current disasters and so on.
These pages act as a parasite´s brand, taking away traffic from the real one. What really suspires to me, it’s the fact that some well-known companies seems to pay to this “parasite´s companies”. For example, the webpage www.blakberry.com, drives to the real www.blackberry.com. As mentioned before these pages may gain from traffic or publicity, so as soon as you make a click in one this webpage, they are receiving money. In fact, I have already contributed to them through this research.
What we can do? Two options: First, remain vigilant about this webpage, its contents, and messages. Second, register the companyin all Commonly-used Domain Name Suffixes. Third,sue under the Anti-Cyber squatting Consumer Protection Act ( ACTA), however this process could be long and expensive.
Rerefences:
http://www.cadna.org/en/resources/other-domain-name-abuses
http://www.fairwindspartners.com/en/newsroom/perspectives/vol-1-issue-4
http://www.unc.edu/courses/2008spring/law/357c/001/WebTM/Domain%20Name%20Issues.html#TYPOSQUATTING
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/print/9134605/Domain_name_wars_Rise_of_the_cybersquatters?taxonomyName=Networking+and+Internet&taxonomyId=16
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Cybersquatting has been in existence for many years and it appears that people are still trying to profit from this abuse of the internet. In an article titled “AAA settles federal 'cybersquatting' suit against Erie man” that can be read via this link: http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1884065201&sid=1&Fmt=3&clientId=20175&RQT=309&VName=PQD it states that as recently as last year the American Automobile Association or AAA successfully recovered from a cybersquatter the domain name www.AAA.net. AAA’s official domain is www.AAA.com. In a very elaborate cybersquatting scheme, which can be read about via this link: http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=2037233971&sid=1&Fmt=3&clientId=20175&RQT=309&VName=PQD two competing businesses in Oakland, CA were involved in a dispute. Evidently, one competitor registered a shortened version of the domain name of the other competitor. When you accessed this website with the shortened name, you would be redirected to the cybersquatter’s website. According to the article, this wasn’t the first time this cybersquatter attempted to do this. It states that he registered 180 domain names that would redirect to his website. Finally, cybersquatting has an extended reach. In an article titled “Domain Wars” which can be read via this link: http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1864881351&sid=1&Fmt=6&clientId=20175&RQT=309&VName=PQD it stated that the toy giant “Lego” of Denmark was able to recover a domain name that didn’t quite fit the brand image the company was seeking on the web. Someone created pornographic images using legos and posted them on a site called “FreeLegoporn.com”. Needless to say GoDaddy.com shut down the site and transferred the domain name to Lego. Although, I doubt they will ever use it.
My first experience with cybersquatting was about 5 years ago when I started researching to buy my 1st car. Nissan was the Brand I chose but Nissan.com was not the website. [and still isn']
nissan.com belongs to a computer company and is in on going litigation with nissan motors.
While reading your blog entry title "Selling your domain name" I was reminded of when I lost my site impacttrade.com and someone parked it just to sell it.
When I saw your options against cybersquatting all I though was option 1, ok; option 2 expensive; option 3 expensive. I feel the hardest part is protecting your brand name and buying the possible misspellings of your site address.
On a lighter note cyberattacks are compared to WW3
Well as the saying goes, if you cannot beat them at least joint them. That’s what big companies are doing by having a link with this pages that have been using Cyber squatting. The main reason it is because if companies make a complaint in the Word Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), They have to prove that the domain name belongs to them and because it is a different name (maybe for one or two letters) or the person who own the domain name has the same name or nickname, WIPO cannot have a resolution in favor of the companies or another famous person with similar name.
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