Cybersquatting (also known as domain squatting) is registering, trafficking in, or using an Internet domain name with bad faith intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to someone else.
On November 29, 1999, President Clinton signed into law the Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA). Generally, the ACPA is intended to protect the public from acts of Internet “cybersquatting,” a term used to describe the bad faith and abusive registration of Internet domain names.
Penalties include fines from $1,000 to $100,000 and forfeiture of the domain.
The Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA) protects trademark owners from any person who, in bad faith, registers an Internet domain name that is identical or confusingly similar to a trademark.
Bad faith is not specifically defined. However, in deciding what is “bad faith” in action, courts have considered the following:
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