Cybersquatting: the International Rules Applying to Legislation on Internet Domain Name.
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Cybersquatting: The International rules applying to legislation on Internet domain name.
Introduction
The universe of brands was strongly impacted for soon 15 years by the development of the Internet, through the emergence of domain names.
In the international scale, a principle governs the registration of domain names: it is about the rule of the "first come, first served". A domain name is attributed to the one who makes the first the request, without taking into account the anteriority of the possible trademark registration.
Definition:
Cybersquatting
The cybersquatting consists in reserving a domain name corresponding to brand or a person with the aim of reselling it, like blackmail, or abusing it, for example by creating a rerouting towards the site of a competitor. Some people even became specialists, sometimes having thousand domain names ready to be resold or used as a weapon during election campaigns.
Internet domain name
In the world of the IT communication, every computer is identified by a number of four numbers separated by a point. This number is called an address of Internet protocol, more familiarly the IP address. It is by this number that communicates computers.
Memorizing an IP number is repulsive. That is why the domain name was created. It is easier to remember "www.yahoo.com", "www.toile.qc.ca" or "www.nomade.fr" than their respective IP address "204.71.200.245", "216.218.0.108" and "213.36.119.66". By going through these directories, we can notice the diversity of domain names.
Whois software
It allows making researches on the databases of domain names ending by .fr or .re as well as .tf.yt.pm and .wf.
Examples of Cybersquatting
French election
At the approach of the presidential election, the cybersquatting develops. Morin2012.fr sends back towards a blog without visible link and francoisfillon.fr towards the site of a website dedicated to the
Cybersquatting: The International rules applying to legislation on Internet domain name.
Introduction
The universe of brands was strongly impacted for soon 15 years by the development of the Internet, through the emergence of domain names.
In the international scale, a principle governs the registration of domain names: it is about the rule of the "first come, first served". A domain name is attributed to the one who makes the first the request, without taking into account the anteriority of the possible trademark registration.
Definition:
Cybersquatting
The cybersquatting consists in reserving a domain name corresponding to brand or a person with the aim of reselling it, like blackmail, or abusing it, for example by creating a rerouting towards the site of a competitor. Some people even became specialists, sometimes having thousand domain names ready to be resold or used as a weapon during election campaigns.
Internet domain name
In the world of the IT communication, every computer is identified by a number of four numbers separated by a point. This number is called an address of Internet protocol, more familiarly the IP address. It is by this number that communicates computers.
Memorizing an IP number is repulsive. That is why the domain name was created. It is easier to remember "www.yahoo.com", "www.toile.qc.ca" or "www.nomade.fr" than their respective IP address "204.71.200.245", "216.218.0.108" and "213.36.119.66". By going through these directories, we can notice the diversity of domain names.
Whois software
It allows making researches on the databases of domain names ending by .fr or .re as well as .tf.yt.pm and .wf.
Examples of Cybersquatting
French election
At the approach of the presidential election, the cybersquatting develops. Morin2012.fr sends back towards a blog without visible link and francoisfillon.fr towards the site of a website dedicated to the