The practice of purchasing a well-known domain name (such as mcdonalds.com) in hopes of selling it at a big profit. When Internet commerce exploded, cybersquatting became a hotly contested practice as large corporations found that domain names similar to their trademarks and brands had already been registered.
the act of registering a popular Internet address, usually a company name, with the intent of selling it to its rightful owner
Reserving an Internet domain name for the purpose of selling it later to a company that wants to use it.
Registering a domain name in hopes of selling it to someone else later. Registering a trademark with this intent was made illegal in 1999.
Reserving a domain name with the intent of selling it later to a company that wants to use it.
the practice of claiming a domain name with the intention of reselling it at a profit
Registration of an entity's name as a domain name by someone outside the entity, who hopes eventually to sell the name for a profit.
The registration of well-known trade marks as domain names with the attempt to sell them back to the trade mark owner.
Generally refers to the practice of buying up domain names that use the names of existing or likely businesses with the intent to sell the names for a profit to those businesses.
The practice of registering domain names that are TRADEMARKED or FAMOUS names in the hopes that the rightful owners will buy at a premium.
A term used to describe someone who has purchased or uses a domain name that includes a trademark. The U.S. has passed the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA) and ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has developed the Uniform Dispute Resolution Process (UDRP) to handle claims of cybersquatting.
The practice of registering a domain name using someone else's trademark, in the hope of later selling the domain to the trademark owner at a high price.Some domain name speculators have created offensive or pornographic sites using famous trademarked names.
A practice where "individuals seek extortionate profits by reserving Internet domain names that are similar or identical to trademarked names with no intention of using the names in commerce themselves." H.R. Rep. No. 106-412, at 6 (1999).
The act of registering a company name as a domain name by someone outside the company in hopes of selling it to the company for a profit. Anti-cybersquatting legislation has been introduced to make it illegal.
Buying a domain name that reflects the name of a business or famous person with the intent of selling the name back to the business or celebrity for a profit.
According to the U.S. federal law known as the Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, cybersquatting is registering, trafficking in, or using a domain name with bad-faith intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to someone else. The cybersquatter then offers to sell the domain to the person or company who owns a trademark contained within the name at an inflated price.
