What is Cybersquatting?
'''Cybersquatting''' is the use of a [[domain name]] which is another person's [[trademark]]. The domain name may be the name of a person, a company, or an organization. The purpose of cybersquatting is to make money. For example: *Domain parking: somebody buys a domain name of a company, because they hope to sell the domain to the company later. *[[Phishing]]: somebody buys the domain name of a company, to fool people who visit that website. These visitors think the company owns the website &mdash; but a [[scam]]mer actually owns the website. When they use their [[banking]] number, the scammer can now steal money from their bank account. In the USA, cybersquatting may be a crime under the [[Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Cybersquatting: What It Is and What Can Be Done About It |website=Nolo |url=https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/cybersquatting-what-what-can-be-29778.html}}</ref> ==Typosquatting== Typosquatting is a kind of cybersquatting. A domain name is used, which is similar to another website or trademark. For example, typosquatting could use ''wikpedia.org'' instead of ''wikipedia.org''. It could also use a different [[URL extension]], such as ''whitehouse.org'' instead of ''whitehouse.gov''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Land's End Gets Trial in Unusual 'Typosquatting' Case |website=FindLaw |url=https://technology.findlaw.com/modern-law-practice/land-s-end-gets-trial-in-unusual-typosquatting-case.html |date=20 June 2016}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:Internet security]] {{technology-stub}}