Cybersquattage
The cybersquattage , in English cybersquatting , indicates the practice to record names or marks on Internet in order to then either resell it with the beneficiary, or to deteriorate his visibility.
Certain local laws regard that as a Extorsion and/or Parasitage.
In were victims for example Framatome, the town of Saint-Tropez, or SFR. This last case, judged with the court of Nanterre in 1999, saw the judge giving reason, like often in these businesses, with the telephone operator against company W3 Systems. One can recall that in addition to to have reserved the name www.sfr.com, the cybersquattor redirected the Net surfers towards www.itineris.com (Itineris), the principal competitor of SFR.
The sites www.france2.com and www.france3.com are always occupied by a cybersquattor (but do not redirect any more on pornographic sites). September 6th, 2006, it is Karl Zero, which after having announced its leweb2zero.com site in a Podcast at Loïc Le Meur is seen taking coveted domain name and its derivatives fault of having held them before speaking about it.
A derivative of the cybersquattage (called Typosquatting) consists in recording domain names with a typing error (for example www.wwikipedia.fr). Certain sites thus record these domain names to avoid doing them " voler" (www.gogole.com for www.google.com for example).
See also Corporatesquatting .
External bonds
- Cybersquattage on journaldunet
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