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- Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act: A federal law of the United States, which makes it unlawful for a person to register a domain name containing another person’s trademark with bad faith. Sometimes ACPA is simply referred to as the Cybersquatting Act, though this is a vague phrase.
- Cease-and-Desist Letter: A pre-litigation letter demanding the recipient to cease a particular course of conduct. In the context of cybersquatting, a cease-and-desist letter typically demands the recipient to cease using a particular domain name.
- Cybersquatting: The bad faith registration of an Internet domain name containing another person’s trademark or containing a confusingly similar variation or permutation of another person’s trademark.
- Cybersquatter: One who engages in cybersquatting, i.e. or the bad faith registration of an Internet domain name containing another person’s trademark or containing a confusingly similar variation or permutation of another person’s trademark.
- Domain Parking: An advertising practice used by domain holders to monetize type-in traffic to an undeveloped website. A parked website displays advertisements, which when clicked upon, generate income for the domain holder.
- Domain Tasting: The practice of a domain name registrant using the five-day grace period at the beginning of the registration of a domain to evaluate the marketability of the domain name.
- ICANN: Internet Corporation for Assigned Names & Numbers created in 1988 to manage the assignment of domain names and IP addresses, among other Internet governance activities.
- In Personam: A term used to designate judicial proceedings instituted against a person. In personam jurisdiction refers to the power of a court over a person.
- In Rem: A term used to designate judicial proceedings instituted against a thing, in contrast to actions against a person.
- Phishing: A criminal process used to acquire sensitive personal information, such as credit card details, account numbers, and passwords, by masquerading as a trustworthy website or electronic communication.
- Registrant: A person who has registered a domain name with an accredited ICANN registrar.
- Registrar: A company that has been accredited by ICANN to register domain names.
- Top Level Domain (TLD): The last part of an Internet domain name (i.e. the letters that follow the final period in a domain name). In the domain name www.example.com, the top-level domain is com.
- Trademark: A word, name, symbol or device which is used in connection with goods to indicate the source of the goods and to distinguish them from others’ goods.
- Typosquatting: A form of cybersquatting, in which the registrant of a domain name relies on Internet users making typographical errors when entering a domain name into a web browser’s URL field.
- UDRP: Short for the Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy, the UDRP is an ICANN policy that provides an arbitration procedure for trademark owners to recover a domain name from persons who have registered the domain name in bad faith. UDRP is a distinct and separate procedure from a lawsuit brought under the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act.
- URL: A Uniform Resource Locator—A protocol for specifying an address on the Internet. A URL can be thought of as the address of a web page, and is sometimes referred to as a web address.
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