While we often take comfort in the legal protection afforded to business names, brands or products courtesy of copyrights and trademarks, sometimes such protective measures fail to deter those with underhanded motives. One of the common complaints that arises within the industry concerns cybersquatting. In this context, cybersquatting involves the registration of a domain by someone when they are ineligible to do so. More specifically, it is the “deliberate and abusive” registration of a domain name related to “marketable and trademark” terms. The registrant often uses the domain in bad faith and attempts to profit from this practice by: licensing […]
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