cybersquatting

English

Etymology

cyber- +‎ squatting

Noun

cybersquatting (uncountable)

1. (Internet) The registration of a well-known brand or company name as an Internet domain name in the hope of selling it at a later date.
   • 1996, Jeff Kuester, “re: They want to take scooby.com away!”, in misc.int-property‎^[1] (Usenet):

     Maybe a little broad in your interpretation? Dilution would not have existed in this case if Toeppen were not in the "business" of cybersquatting? The statute does not allow noncommercial use to "dilute", but when a domain name owner suggests money may be taken for the domain name, a problem is created for the DNO, right? This may be a large trap for attorneys advising in this area.

2. (Internet) A form of passing off, often with the intent referred to in the first sense above.
   • 2003, D'Anne Davis, Maria Koroneos, “Property” (chapter VIII), in Business Law in Canada Casebok‎^[2], 4th edition, Toronto, Canada: Prentice Hall (Pearson), →ISBN, Passing Off (section 3), page 211:

     The day after the issuance of the interlocutory injunction he was interviewed by a StarPhoenix reporter as part of a larger article on "Cybersquatting" as the domain name game has come to be called.

Coordinate terms

• typosquatting

Related terms

• cybersquatter

Translations

registration of a well-known brand or company name as an Internet domain name in the hope of selling it later

• Azerbaijani: kiberskvottinq
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 域名搶注 (zh) (yùmíng qiǎngzhù)

• Finnish: nimikaappaus
• Japanese: サイバースクワッティング (saibāsukuwattingu)
• Russian: киберскво́ттинг (ru) m (kiberskvótting)
• Spanish: ciberparacaidismo m, (Spain) ciberocupación f, ciberokupación f
• Ukrainian: кіберскво́тинґ m (kiberskvótyng), кіберскво́тинг m (kiberskvótynh)