Cybersquatting is becoming more popular
World Intellectual Poperty Organization (WIPO) said that there has been a dramatic leap in kiberskvotterstva Network, said Arstechnica According to the organization, in 2007, they received a record number of complaints of kiberskvotterov - namely, 2156. This is 50% more than in 2005.
Kiberskvotterami called people purchasing domain names, writing similar to the domain names of famous companies and services, or simply domain names containing the word in popular writing. They tend to be advertisements, which gets unlucky and user opechatavshiysya site in the title.
WIPO first promulgated its "unified policy to resolve disputes concerning domain names (UDRP) in 1999, after the first case involving the kiberskvottingom. Since then, the organization considered the 12334 cases that related to the 22000 domain names. According to the WIPO, in the past year such cases were considered in 100 countries, although the United States, France and Great Britain problem is particularly acute. The most common sites are subject kiberskvottingu companies engaged Pharma, IT, retail, entertainment, as well as banks.
25% of all these cases were settled without the intervention of WIPO. In 85% of allowed through disputes, it had decided to transfer the domain name of the plaintiff. In the remaining 15% of plaintiff's petition was rejected.