Domain Registration Fraud.

[kev woodman]

Just came across this.

In the past if you bagged a domain that could be identified as attached to another company e.g. you managed to get hold of sainsburys.com, then you could probably expect to lose it.

In a recent UK course though the owners of citigroup.co.uk (a company called GPM) were guilty of fraud and copyright infringement. The reasoning behind this was that the judge held that GPM were guilty of passing themselves off as Citigroup. One of the directors of GPM was also found to be personally liable.

Serious stuff this so cybersquatting has got a lot riskier.

[Pumazooma]

I can't see any reason to have a domain just for the sake of having it other than to knowingly extort money from people who would rightfully want it for a proper site.

I think there should be some kind of law where you can't have a domain without actually having something on it that is directly associated with it. There's no reason to have a domain just for the sake of stopping someone else having it for a legitimate site.

[kev woodman]

It would take two minutes to write an app that filtered ads so they were relevant to the domain name - or display RSS feeds related to the name.

Plus you'd have the enormous expense of policing it. Looks like we're stuck with parked domains for a while yet