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Solution Cybersquatting …registering, trafficking in, or using a domain name with bad faith intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to someone else… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybersquatting

A victim of cybersquatting may also file an InterNIC Registrar Problem Report regarding a cybersquatter posing as a registrar. http://reports.internic.net/cgi/registrars/problem-report.cgi

If you register a domain with the sole intention of making money from reselling it or getting revenue from people typing in the domain name then that is domain squatting.
http://ezinearticles.com/?Domain-Squatting-Explained&id=50564

In order for a trademark owner to bring a claim under the ACPA, the owner must establish
• the trademark owner’s mark is distinctive or famous;
• the domain name owner acted in bad faith to profit from the mark; and
• the domain name and the trademark are either identical or confusingly similar (or dilutive for famous trademarks).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anticybersquatting_Consumer_Protection_Act

Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (UDRP)
When a registrant chooses a domain name, the registrant must “represent and warrant,” among other things, that registering the name “will not infringe upon or otherwise violate the rights of any third party,” and agree to participate in an arbitration-like proceeding should any third party assert such a claim.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Domain-Name_Dispute-Resolution_Policy

Also:
http://www.voodoo.co.uk/DomainSquatting-Part1:HowToIdentifyASquatter.htm
http://cybersquatting.com/index.php?page=sue-personally
http://cybersquatting.com/index.php?page=actions-under-icann

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21 Nov 2008 10:44 PM