For example, “” with a capital I instead of “” with a lower-case L. These errors occur when users mistype the URL by pressing the wrong keys. Although a simple human error, accidentally pressing the wrong letter can significantly affect users. Typosquatting relies on human errors, such as: Bad actors can then use this information, especially if users have the same usernames and passwords on multiple sites so that even unrelated accounts are at risk. The websites may try to create the same look and feel as the web pages they’re mimicking to bait users into disclosing personal information, such as login info or credit card details.
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Here is what you need to know about typosquatting and how to protect your business against it. Organizations must watch out for fraudulent websites and take action when needed. It also hurts businesses, who miss out on revenue when customers shop typosquatting sites and suffer reputational damage when users have a negative experience. Typosquatting leaves individuals vulnerable to identity theft, malware and virus attacks, inappropriate content and more. Likewise, there have been more than 150,000 pandemic-themed domain names since December 2019. In fact, one report found more than 500 squatted domains related to candidates during the 2020 presidential election year. Typosquatting aims to trick users who mistype the legitimate URL into visiting and using the fraudulent site. However, they all mean the same thing: malicious attackers register domain names similar to popular websites but with common typos and variations. You can follow the story and the comments to this interesting typosquatting story at Traverse Legal’s Cybersquatting blog at this thread on the WIPO Domain Name Dipute here.Typosquatting goes by many names: URL hijacking, domain mimicry and domain typo-squatting, to name a few. There are no trademark notices on WIPOs web site and they don’t even use the circle R symbol to denote their registration.
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You would think an arbitration authority specializing in global trademark protection issues would at least post its trademark notices and registration on its web site. We can only assume that NAF would overlook the fact that they compete with WIPO in providing arbitration services. Of course, they would have to file with NAF because of the conflict of interest. If WIPO could successfully establish trademark rights, a UDRP decision in their favor should be a slam dunk.
Regardless, WIPO must have foreign registration and common law trademark rights. It is interesting that the registration remains incomplete and took so long to file. Interestingly, WIPO only recently filed a US trademark application for both the logo design and words “WIPO” with the USPTO as show here. It is hard to imagine that anyone has superior trademark rights to WIPO, as shows registration for the domain was created. (A law firm specializing in trademark issues!)īoth of the above web sites are attempting to divert direct navigation typographical errors seeking WIPO to their own web sites.Here are two apparent typosquatters who also appear to infringing on WIPO’s domain name: The very organization which is invested with the authority by ICANN to resolve cybersquatting and typosquatting disputes internationally under the UDRP is, by all appearances, being squatted. How prevalent is cybersquatting and typosquatting? Take a look at and then compare it with the World Intellectual Property Organization’s web site Ironically, the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center handles a majority of the UDRP domain dispute arbitrations internationally.
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