CYBERSQUATTING!

By: Lindsey Bryant

WHAT IS
CYBERSQUATTING?
According to the
United States federal
law known as the
Anticybersquatting
Consumer Protection
Act, 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
(Wikipedia).
SO, WHAT DOES ALL OF THAT
REALLY MEAN?
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WEBSITES!
HTTP://WWW.WEBOPEDIA.COM/
TERM/C/CYBERSQUATTING.HTM
The first website that I looked at was very
resourceful and though it is short provided a lot
L of information on cyber squatting.
This site gives a definition similar to the one that
I gave in the beginning of this presentation.
On this website, I found out that Senator Spencer
Abraham was the one who brought the attention
to congress with the Anti-Cybersquatting
Consumer Protection.
As of now, no legislation has been made regarding
cybersquatting, but most cybersquatting cases
end with punishment to the cyber squatter.
HTTP://WWW.DOMAINTOOLS.COM/INTERNET-
STATISTICS/
The next website Active
that I viewed 94,770,359
showed statistics on Deleted
how many domains 323,607,533
are active, deleted, New
expired, etc. The
following stats are 70,261
from April 26, 2011 Expired
and are websites 65,421
that end in .com Transferred 110,874
HTTP://BLOG.TRIMO-INC.COM/C
LIENT-CENTRAL/TECH-TERM-TUE
SDAY-ISSUE-9/
An example of cybersquatting that this
website used caught my attention.
Apparently, in 2001, Bruce Springsteen
noticed that the domain name
www.brucespringsteen.com was taken. He
tried to take legal action, but unfortunately
for him this time nothing could be done.
NEWS ARTICLE
In the article that I found, Kodak sued a man
from Russia named Alexander Gundul.
Gundul, took the domain name kodak.ru and
used it to promote his store.
The website showed cameras and other
merchandise and when clicked on told the
buyer the best place to buy the product,
which he put as his store.
Gundul was to stop using the site and pay the
US $93 for compensation.
* I chose this topic because
when it was mentioned in class
in the beginning of the semester
it really just caught my
attention.
It really does seem like a good
way to make money, and if it
wasnt so sneaky and illegal it
would work.
I personally dont think that it
should be illegal, if people want
to spend all of their time
looking at availability of domain
names and then get them and
sell them to companies that are
willing to pay to get them back,
they should be free to do so.
The reasons why I
chose the websites used
in this presentation is
because they presented
good information.
Also, cybersquatting is
a pretty simple thing to
understand and its very
self-explanatory.
The article that I chose
was one that I think is
very captivating and
also easy to understand.
 ONE QUESTION
THAT CAME TO
MIND WHILE DOING
THIS ASSIGNMENT
WAS
If it wasnt illegal, how many people would
actually cybersquat?
A) My answer for this question would
probably be a lot more, especially in our
current economic situation
BIBLIOGRAPHY
http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/arti
cle.php/479311/Kodak-Wins-Russian-CyberSq
uatting-Case.htm
http://blog.trimo-inc.com/client-central/te
ch-term-tuesday-issue-9/
http://www.domaintools.com/internet-statis
tics/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybersquatting
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/C/cybers
quatting.html