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Cybersquatting News

Culinary sues Web site operator critical of unionWednesday, March 3, 2010 @ 11:01AMCulinary Workers Union Local 226 in Las Vegas has filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against the operator of a Web site that is critical of the union. Local 226, in a lawsuit filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court for Nevada, complained that its trademark rights have been violated since November.

Typosquatting nets Google $500 million per yearMonday, March 1, 2010 @ 8:56PMResearchers at Harvard University have discovered that Google may be making around half a billion dollars on an annual basis via a controversial scheme called typosquatting.

Study Suggests New gTLD Cybersquatting, Defensive Registrations OverestimatedFriday, February 26, 2010 @ 8:13PMAccording to recent study conducted by Minds + Machines, historical data analysis suggests brand owners do not necessarily register their brands when it comes to new generic Top-Level Domains.

Utah bill is another attempt to regulate Internet practicesSaturday, February 20, 2010 @ 4:45PMWith an unsuccessful history of trying to regulate aspects of the Internet, the Utah Legislature is back again this year with a new measure. This time, however, the proposed law is fairly benign, with broad backing from an array of Internet, technology and other companies.

Study Suggests Introduction of New gTLDs Will Cost Less than $.10 for Each Trademark WorldwideThursday, February 18, 2010 @ 5:47PMMinds + Machines reports: "A quantitative analysis of UDRP data for all open generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs) concludes that the introduction of new gTLDs will result in approximately 316 new cases of cybersquatting, and that the resultant cost to trademark holders, overall, will be $870,000 per year—less than less than $.10 for each trademark registered worldwide, or about $.44 per trademark ...

Google typosquat cash pegged at $497m per yearThursday, February 18, 2010 @ 2:14PMHarvard boffins probe 'mispelled' domains Google may earn as much as $497m a year from typosquatters, according to a study from Harvard professor and noted Mountain View critic Ben Edelman.… Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work

Is Google Profiting Unfairly From Typosquatters?Thursday, February 18, 2010 @ 11:29AMA Harvard professor has made it his personal crusade to tell the world how the search giant makes buckets of duckets off people who register deceptive Web addresses. A slightly more refined variant of cybersquatting, typosquatting involves purchasing domains that are one character away from popular Web sites and serve up ads (or malware) to clumsy typists who land there by mistake. As the Web's ...

Domain Registry Locking Program: It Is There for a Reason, So Why Not Use It?Wednesday, February 17, 2010 @ 2:17PMIt seems like every week, news of yet another high-profile domain hijacking occurs. Whether it's stolen credentials, SQL injection attacks, or even the work of disgruntled employees, the number of incidents has been on the rise.

Measuring Typosquatting Perpetrators and FundersWednesday, February 17, 2010 @ 10:32AMCo-authored by Tyler Moore , at Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Benjamin Edelman , at Harvard Business School. For more than a decade, aggressive website registrants have been engaged in 'typosquatting'—the intentional registration of misspellings of popular website addresses.