cybersquatter

"I really resent it when people accuse me of being a notorious cybersquatter, because I am not," he said.

The cybersquatter then offers to sell the domain to the person or company who owns a trademark contained within the name at an inflated price.

The key element in this definition is that the intellectual property rights of another's trademark are infringed by the cybersquatter.

But a growing number of celebrities see Mr. Burgar as a serial cybersquatter.

A cybersquatter may use automated software tools to register the lapsed name the instant it is lapsed.

In 2006, Saint won the rights to the Internet domain name silviasaint.com from a cybersquatter in a lawsuit.

Exley is a cybersquatter who demanded $20K from the Bush campaign for the rights to the domain name.

Should a user accidentally enter an incorrect website address, they may be led to an alternative website owned by a cybersquatter.

The website is back offline as of 2007-04-18, and as of 2009-03-02 the domain name now redirects to a Cybersquatter.

In 2005, the registration for the ManBeef.com domain name expired and was quickly snapped up by a pornography-themed cybersquatter.

A cybersquatter currently controls the domain, and CMG is trying to gain the legal rights to it - without filing a lawsuit.

Madam President, the Carraro report contains the mysterious English word 'cybersquatter.'

In 2009, Love won the use of her domain name, lexilove.com, for her website from Texas Property Associates, a cybersquatter.

Verizon wins a $33.15 million judgment against cybersquatter OnlineNIC.

Daniel Pomerantz wants to make one thing clear: He's not some money-hungry "cybersquatter" looking to get rich quick at the expense of the Yankees.

In 2006, Cruise sued cybersquatter Jeff Burgar to obtain control of the TomCruise.com domain name.

Then came a surge of cases in the general category of trademark holder v. cybersquatter, routinely decided in favor of trademark holder.

A victim of cybersquatting may also file an InterNIC Registrar Problem Report regarding a cybersquatter posing as a registrar.

On the order of $80/yr, plus a $99 "preregistration" fee if you don't feel like waiting until some cybersquatter grabs it and extorts money out of you.

Typically, the cybersquatter will register a plausible typo of a well-known website address in hopes of receiving traffic when Internet users mistype that address into a web browser.

So Jeff Burgar, accused cybersquatter, speaks for many Internet users when he views Icann and WIPO as defenders of the corporate trademark establishment.

Depending on who is telling the story, that somebody is either a 17-year-old schoolboy who created a Web site for mountain-bike racing, or an opportunistic "cybersquatter" who registered dozens of Internet addresses to exact big corporate ransoms.

The fight over an Internet address for the New York Yankees, depending on whom you talk to, is either the story of a giant sports franchise seeking to crush a hapless fan or one of an unprincipled "cybersquatter" hoping to cash in on the team's popularity.

In Virtual Works, Inc. v. Volkswagen of America, Inc. (a dispute over the domain vw.net), the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals created a common law requirement that the cybersquatter must exhibit a bad faith intent in order to confer liability.

Michael Lawrie (born 17 April 1968 in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, England) is a British computer security and social networking expert known for many things ranging from running MUDs to accidentally being the world's first Cybersquatter.