Getting Your Domain Names Back

• Posted by Geoffrey G. Gussis on January 12th, 2005


• Filed in IT/Software/Internet, Intellectual Property

If you handle IP matters for your company, you have probably heard the ominous words "cybersquatters", "nampirates" or "domain name hijackers" before.  If you are unfamiliar with the terms, you should get up to speed on this booming underworld of Internet life.  Thousands of individuals and companies exist solely to register expiring domain names, misspellings or other permutations of your valuable trademarks.  Fortunately, things have changed since the early days of the Internet.  The Uniform Domain-Name Dispute Resolution Policy and the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act are potent tools that companies can utilize to fight domain name pirates and, as the Corporate Counsel points out in a recent article, you may be able to use these tools to save your company money.