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Any lawyers here who want to help Sergio fight this squatter/pirate..?

Shane Clarke wrote:

> cyber-squatting: <jargon, networking> The practice of registering famous
> brand names as Internet domain names, e.g. harrods.com, ibm.firm or
> sears.shop, in the hope of later selling them to the appropriate owner
> at a profit.
>
> What is cyber-squatting?
> Over the past decade, the term cyber-squatting has come to mean
> different things to different people; unfortunately, there is no
> universally-accepted official definition. However, in a recent high
> profile judgement in the U.S. Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Judge
> Berle M. Schiller defined cyber-squatting or cyber-piracy as the
> "deliberate, bad-faith, and abusive registration of Internet domain
> names in violation of the rights of trademark owners."
>
> The notoriety of cyber-squatting derives from the practice of
> registering a domain name based on a famous brand name owned by a
> company or person, and seeking to sell the domain name back to the
> owners of the brand at an inflated price.
>
> A few years ago, ICANN introduced a Universal Dispute Resolution Policy
> to mediate in domain name disputes by providing reasonably simple and
> inexpensive arbitration. In addition, cyber-squatting is now illegal
> under U.S. law. The practice - at least at the gTLD level - is in
> decline; earlier infringements, however, are still being resolved.
>
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