Cybersquatting vs Legitimate Domaining: UDRP and ACPA Explained

Two people register a domain to resell it. One buys solarpanels.com, a plain dictionary phrase anyone in the industry might want. The other buys nike-running-shoes.net, a string that exists only because Nike does. Same activity on the surface, two completely different legal positions. The first is ordinary domaining. The second is cybersquatting, and there are two well-built systems designed to take that name away from the person who registered it.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://namefi.io/r/en/blog/cybersquatting-vs-domaining-udrp-acpa