Evicting the squatters

01-01-2011

The expansion of available domain names continues apace. New gTLDs and more opportunities to use ccTLDs provide businesses with extra places to do business online. But with that comes danger, as Claudia Strola explains.

The expansion of available domain names continues apace. New gTLDs and more opportunities to use ccTLDs provide businesses with extra places to do business online. But with that comes danger, as Claudia Strola explains.

All companies and business people have an obvious interest in registering domain names corresponding to their most famous trademarks, the names of their products or their business names.

This growing need has meant that since the launch of the Internet, new and previously unknown types of illegal activity known as cybersquatting and typosquatting have evolved around domain name registration.


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