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Cybersquatting

Index Cybersquatting

Cybersquatting (also known as domain squatting), according to the United States federal law known as the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, is registering, trafficking in, or using an Internet domain name with bad faith intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to someone else. [1]

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Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act

The Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA), 15 U.S.C. § 1125(d), is a U.S. law enacted in 1999 that established a cause of action for registering, trafficking in, or using a domain name confusingly similar to, or dilutive of, a trademark or personal name.

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Aviva

Aviva plc is a British multinational insurance company headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

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Bad faith

Bad faith (Latin: mala fides) is double mindedness or double heartedness in duplicity, fraud, or deception.

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Brandjacking

Brandjacking is an activity whereby someone acquires or otherwise assumes the online identity of another entity for the purposes of acquiring that person's or business's brand equity.

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Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter and musician, known for his work with the E Street Band.

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Dennis Toeppen

Dennis Toeppen is an American entrepreneur and the owner of bus company Suburban Express.

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Domain name

A domain name is an identification string that defines a realm of administrative autonomy, authority or control within the Internet.

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Domain name front running

Domain name front running is the practice whereby a domain name registrar uses insider information to register domains for the purpose of re-selling them or earning revenue via ads placed on the domain's landing page.

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Domain Name System

The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical decentralized naming system for computers, services, or other resources connected to the Internet or a private network.

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Domain tasting

Domain tasting is the practice of temporarily registering a domain under the five-day Add Grace Period at the beginning of the registration of an ICANN-regulated second-level domain.

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Facebook

Facebook is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California.

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Forum (alternative dispute resolution)

Forum, formerly known as the National Arbitration Forum (NAF) is an organization that provides arbitration and mediation services to businesses, based at its Minneapolis, Minnesota headquarters and offices in New Jersey.

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Future Media Architects

Future Media Architects (FMA) is an internet development company founded in 2002.

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Jethro Tull (band)

Jethro Tull are a British rock band formed in Blackpool, Lancashire in 1967.

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John Zuccarini

John Zuccarini (born September 20, 1947) is an American businessman who served time in federal prison for violating the Truth in Domain Names Act.

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Kevin Spacey

Kevin Spacey Fowler (born July 26, 1959) is an American actor, producer and singer.

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Lamparello v. Falwell

Lamparello v. Falwell, 420 F.3d 309, is a legal case heard by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit concerning cybersquatting and trademark infringement.

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Lufthansa

Deutsche Lufthansa AG, commonly known as Lufthansa (sometimes also as Lufthansa German Airlines), is the largest German airline and, when combined with its subsidiaries, also the largest airline in Europe both in terms of fleet size and passengers carried during 2017.

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Madonna (entertainer)

Madonna Louise Ciccone (born August 16, 1958) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and businesswoman.

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Michael Urvan

Michael Urvan (born 1973) was the first individual to successfully defend against a domain name dispute brought against an individual by a famous celebrity.

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Microsoft vs. MikeRoweSoft

Microsoft vs.

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Nissan Motors vs. Nissan Computer

Nissan Motors vs.

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Panavision

Panavision is an American motion picture equipment company specializing in cameras and lenses, based in Woodland Hills, California.

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Patent troll

In international law and business, patent trolling or patent hoarding is a categorical or pejorative term applied to a person or company that attempts to enforce patent rights against accused infringers far beyond the patent's actual value or contribution to the prior art, often through hardball legal tactics (frivolous litigation, vexatious litigation, strategic lawsuit against public participation (SLAPP), chilling effects, and the like).

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People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals v. Doughney

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals v. Doughney, 263 F.3d 359 (4th Cir. 2001), was an important Internet domain trademark infringement decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

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Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. v. Bucci

Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc.

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Primedia

Primedia is a South African media group, headquartered in Sandton, Johannesburg.

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PROTECT Act of 2003

The PROTECT Act of 2003 (117 Stat. 650, S. 151, enacted April 30, 2003) is a United States law with the stated intent of preventing child abuse as well as investigating and prosecuting violent crimes against children.

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Satyam Infoway Ltd. v. Sifynet Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

Satyam Infoway Ltd.

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Squatting

Squatting is the action of occupying an abandoned or unoccupied area of land or a building, usually residential, that the squatter does not own, rent or otherwise have lawful permission to use.

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Taubman Sucks

Taubman Sucks is a short documentary about a precedent-setting intellectual property lawsuit.

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Tiger Beat

Tiger Beat is an American teen fan magazine originally published by The Laufer Company, and marketed primarily to adolescent girls.

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Tony La Russa

Anthony La Russa, Jr. (born October 4, 1944) is the former manager of the St. Louis Cardinals and a former American professional baseball player, manager, and executive serving as vice president and special assistant to Dave Dombrowski, president of baseball operations for the Boston Red Sox.

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Top-level domain

A top-level domain (TLD) is one of the domains at the highest level in the hierarchical Domain Name System of the Internet.

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Trademark

A trademark, trade mark, or trade-markThe styling of trademark as a single word is predominantly used in the United States and Philippines only, while the two-word styling trade mark is used in many other countries around the world, including the European Union and Commonwealth and ex-Commonwealth jurisdictions (although Canada officially uses "trade-mark" pursuant to the Trade-mark Act, "trade mark" and "trademark" are also commonly used).

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Twitter

Twitter is an online news and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets".

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Typosquatting

Typosquatting, also called URL hijacking, a sting site, or a fake URL, is a form of cybersquatting, and possibly brandjacking which relies on mistakes such as typos made by Internet users when inputting a website address into a web browser.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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URL

A Uniform Resource Locator (URL), colloquially termed a web address, is a reference to a web resource that specifies its location on a computer network and a mechanism for retrieving it.

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Van Cleef & Arpels

Van Cleef & Arpels is a French jewelry, watch, and perfume company.

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White House

The White House is the official residence and workplace of the President of the United States.

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Whitehouse.com

whitehouse.com is a political entertainment website that first came online in May 1997.

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Whitehouse.org

WHITEHOUSE.ORG is a parody website, first registered in 1995, that has satirized the President of the United States intermittently since 1996.

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World Intellectual Property Organization

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is one of the 15 specialized agencies of the United Nations (UN).

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Yahoo! News

Yahoo! News is a news website that originated as an internet-based news aggregator by Yahoo!.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybersquatting

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