Cybersquatting is the name given to registering, trafficking in or using a domain name in bad faith, or intending to profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to a third party. Aharon Factor looks at recent cases in Israel and abroad.
Cybersquatting is the name given to registering, trafficking in or using a domain name in bad faith, or intending to profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to a third party. Aharon Factor looks at recent cases in Israel and abroad.
A cybersquatter typically offers to sell the domain name to the person or company with rights to the trademark contained within the domain name, at an inflated price.
Cybersquatters sometimes register variants of popular trademarked names in a practice known as typosquatting, or hijack the names of people or businesses (‘name jacking’) where the name is purchased as a second-level domain name. Setting up a website in this manner allows the purchaser to capitalise on Internet searches for that name.
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udrp, cybersquatters, domains, israel
