Cybersquatting may be defined as the registering, trafficking in, or using a domain name with bad-faith intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to someone else.
As examples we mention the following acts of Cybersquatting:
- Registration of a domain name, identical or confusingly similar to the trademark of another with the objective of selling the registered domain name.
- Registration of a domain name, identical or confusingly similar with the trademark of another with the sole purpose of not allowing the owner of the trademark to register and use the domain.
- Registration of a domain name, identical or confusingly similar to the trademark of another with the objective of confusing visitors that such sight is in some way related with another person’s trademark.
- Registration of a domain name, identical or confusingly similar to the trademark of another with the objective of confusing visitors to enter, who may eventually notice that the content of the webpage is not associated with the identical or similar trademark with which they associated the domain name, but once there may desist from pursuing the web page they initially intended to visit.
There are several ways in which Marcaria.com can help you in protecting your brand from cyber squatters:
- Domain Name Disputes: ICANN system for arbitration governed by the Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy, or UDRP.
- Uniform Rapid Suspension System (URS): Alternative/complement to the UDRP.
- Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) Registration: Defensive registration of trademarks.
- Domain Protected Mark List (DPML): Defensive registration/block service for some new gTLDs.