Microsoft files cybersquatting lawsuits
Seattle PI | at | by Mike
Microsoft has filed three lawsuits in the U.S. against people and companies it accuses of profiting from the use of Web site addresses containing its trademarked terms.
The suits target cybersquatting or typosquatting, practices that divert Internet users seeking Microsoft Web sites by using similar or slightly misspelled domain names, according to the complaints filed this week in federal courts in New York, Seattle and Fort Wayne, Ind.
"This is a fast-growing issue for all brands on the Internet, and there's a lot of money at stake," Aaron Kornblum, an attorney with Microsoft's Internet safety enforcement team, said in a phone interview.