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Cybersquatter Ordered To Give Up iTunes.co.uk
DigitumDei writes "Originally reported on Slashdot last year when Apple accused Benjamin Cohen of being a cybersquatter, the UK Internet registry has now ordered Cohen to give up the domain to Apple. Nominet ruled that Cohen had made an "abusive registration," and that he "is using the domain name in a way which has confused people or businesses into believing that the domain name is registered to, operated or authorized by, or otherwise connected with the complainant."
yes. all your domains are belong to US.
Well, there's two reasons:
Put simply, this phisher is playing off surfers trying to use someone else's trademark as a domain name. Not complicated.
with an open mind, follow me on this one...i have a sole proprietership with a long name. the acronym for this name (4 letters) has been registered to a company using a p.o. box in taiwan. the site, as it is now, is completely useless and irrelevant to the domain name.
In order for me to do what iTunes did, I would have to pay over a grand in lawyer's fees to have my case heard.
My only other option would be to pay them around $1300 (proving they are only 'squatting' it for profit in potential resale--also against ICANN's guidelines.
So spend a grand and gamble on my case being upheld, or just pay these guys to continue in their infesting of the internet.
Seriously, is it so hard to see that these types of things are worse than spammers and the like? At least spam can be deleted or blocked, these people are using valuable resources indefinitely (what cybersquatter doesn't use domain locking)....so before you think this is just a case of corporate guy vs. little guy, think of a few other situations that might happen to exist in this place called the internet