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cybersquatting

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A quick definition of cybersquatting:

Cybersquatting is when someone who is not the owner of a famous brand name or trademark registers that name as a website address and tries to make money from it. They might try to sell the website address back to the real owner for a lot of money, or they might use it to trick people into going to their own website instead of the real one. To prove cybersquatting, the real owner of the brand name has to show that the person who registered the website did it on purpose to make money from it and that the website address is very similar to the real brand name.

A more thorough explanation:

Cybersquatting is when someone who is not the owner of a well-known trademark registers that trademark as an Internet domain name and then tries to make money from it. This can happen in two ways:

  • The person who registered the domain name tries to sell it back to the trademark owner for a lot of money.
  • The person who registered the domain name uses it to take business away from the trademark owner.

To prove that someone is guilty of cybersquatting, three things need to be shown:

  1. The trademark owner has a well-known trademark that deserves protection.
  2. The domain name that was registered is the same as, or very similar to, the trademark.
  3. The person who registered the domain name did it on purpose to make money from it.

For example, if someone registered the domain name "nike.com" and then tried to sell it to Nike for a lot of money, that would be cybersquatting. Or if someone registered "mcdonalds.net" and used it to sell hamburgers, that would also be cybersquatting.

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WorthlessAttractiveZombie
9:38
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soapy
9:43
USC still has not looked at my app
WorthlessAttractiveZombie
9:43
when did you submit soapy?
soapy
9:44
10/16
WorthlessAttractiveZombie
9:44
to be fair it took them almost 2 months for me to go under review
soapy
9:44
Feelin a bit stressed, as I've got no date change for Michigan either despite applying 10/7
WorthlessAttractiveZombie
9:45
I have not had a date change either for Mich but I've seen people get in without one so who knows
I applied 9/25 to like 6 schools and some (Houston) have no date change yet so dw
soapy
9:46
But do people get in without addresses going long?
WorthlessAttractiveZombie
9:46
it's tough to tell because a lot of people type out their addresses long to begin with
soapy
9:46
Ah. I didn't. Looking back, my Mich supplement kind of sucks, so there's that
Mich overrated (Dean Z please let me in even tho i didnt apply and I am below both 25ths)
ClassyPleasantHeron
10:01
The "date changes" at Michigan really don't mean anything. We had to do them in undergrad admissions whenever a Georgia applicant picked the country instead of the state, because we'd have to remove the TOEFL requirement and reassign the application from the international application readers.
soapy
10:06
Classy, does that mean they may look at your application, and that look doesn't necessarily trigger any date change?
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10:06
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10:07
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1a2b3c4d26z
10:07
What a good day to get into law school
ClassyPleasantHeron
10:11
@soapy: I don't know for sure about the law school. For undergrad, once the application is complete, it's assigned to a reader the following Monday. If we had to make any changes, it's because a reader saw something that needed to be changed and the application needed to be re-read after that change.
soapy
10:12
Ahh, got it. Thank you for the insight!
ClassyPleasantHeron
10:14
You're welcome. FWIW, I have no idea what's up with the address changes. We didn't have to do any of that, except for the Georgia state vs country kinds of things.
soapy
10:15
I've heard it theorized that some schools will change the address from "St." --> "Street" as they prepare to send out admissions packets. That's the rumor, anyways.
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