• DocumentCode
    2646278
  • Title

    Cybersquatting

  • Author

    Mathew, Alex Roney ; Al Hajj, Aayad ; Ambusaidi, Mohammed

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Inf. Technol., Minist. of Higher Educ., Nizwa, Oman
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    17-19 Sept. 2010
  • Abstract
    Internet is playing major and key role in our daily life especially in business, from two decades. The domain name / internet website address is very important and plays major role in the current IT trend based life style. The business people, consumers prefer same domain name as their trade name, even the famous people like their names as the address of their websites or blogs. The “cyber squatters” are unauthorized people with bad intention, they register domain names of other people´s name or famous business. They resell the domain names with high price or misuse to create loss to others business. This paper explains cybersquatting, organizations and laws controlling cybersquatting, and some suggestions to avoid the rise of cybersquatting.
  • Keywords
    Internet; Web sites; computer crime; law; Internet; Web site; blog; cyber squatter; cybersquatting; domain name; IP networks; World Wide Web; Cybersquatters; DRP; ICANN; WIPO; cybersquatting techniques;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Educational and Information Technology (ICEIT), 2010 International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Chongqing
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-8033-3
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-8035-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICEIT.2010.5607800
  • Filename
    5607800