Re: OT - cyber squatting?

I assume you mean registering a web address of a company, just to keep them from registering it or to try and make them pay you for it? Check NetworkSolutions "domain name dispute" policies. InterNIC has a pretty good policy, actually. If someone registers a name with is copyrighted, trademarked, or is clearly only valuable because it is familiar to a registered trademark of copyright, they are in violation and the domain name can be taken away from them and awared to the rightful owner via arbitration. To avoid having a domain name taken away they must prove either that they have made a good-faith effort to build a destinctive trademark of brand which does not impede upon a pre-existing copyright, and that the name was not registered for the sole purpose of keeping someone from rightfully registering it. Is that what you meant? -- Plutarck Should be working on something... ...but forgot what it was. "Kurth Bemis" <kurth@usaexpress.net> wrote in message news:4.3.2.7.2.20010417120527.01fb6018@mail.usaexpress.net... > this is totally OT - however I don't where else to ask. > > i need information on cyber squatting. as in what laws there are against > it, etc.....i believe that there was a law passed making cyber squatting > illegal...but i can't find it at the library of congress....any help? > > ~kurth > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >