Temu grabs more domains from Chinese domain squatter via the UDRP process

Posted by DomainGang on November 22, 2025, at 11:11 am

Temu is a global e-commerce platform owned by PDD Holdings, the company behind Chinese online marketplace Pinduoduo. Launched in September 2022, Temu operates on a low-cost, direct-to-consumer model, competing with platforms like Shein, AliExpress, and Amazon in the budget e-commerce space through its factory-to-consumer approach, and it is understandably protective of its brand, operating from […]

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CNN.now & Bloomberg.now: Vietnamese squatter sought thousands of dollars; got none

Posted by DomainGang on October 30, 2025, at 10:27 am

Two major media companies, CNN and Bloomberg, have won UDRP cases against a Vietnamese cybersquatter who registered the domains CNN.now and Bloomberg.now in August. The Respondent, using the names Quan Ngo and Steve Ngo, followed the same playbook: register high-profile brands under then fresh .now extension, list them for sale on Spaceship, and demand tens […]

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Slopsquatting: A new form of AI cybersquatting has emerged!

Posted by DomainGang on August 7, 2025, at 12:50 pm

You already know about cybersquatting, so here comes slopsquatting. Slopsquatting is a newly emerging supply chain attack that preys on AI code-generation tools’ tendency to hallucinate non-existent software package names. When a large language model (LLM) suggests a fictitious software library, attackers who’ve already registered that exact name can supply malicious code. Developers who blindly […]

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Coinbase sued cybersquatter over the domain Coinbase.de

Posted by DomainGang on July 28, 2025, at 1:29 pm

Coinbase has taken legal action against the German registrant of the domain Coinbase.de, accusing him of cybersquatting and exploitation of the exchange’s brand. The lawsuit, filed in a California federal court, claims that the registrant redirected the domain to a physical coin trading app, leveraged it for affiliate earnings, and attempted to pressure Coinbase into […]

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PiersMorgan.com: UDRP decision ties celebrity’s domain to bad faith holding

Posted by DomainGang on July 2, 2025, at 5:20 pm

The domain name PiersMorgan.com was registered in 2005 and corresponded exactly to the name of UK television personality and journalist Piers Morgan. The domain, linked over the years to ad-heavy parking pages and third-party redirections, remained under the control of a registrant using the pseudonym “W NA” at a UK address. The Complainants, Piers Morgan […]

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NordStellar launches AI-driven cybersquatting detection tool

Posted by DomainGang on March 25, 2025, at 11:01 am

NordStellar is a cybersecurity company specializing in brand protection and digital threat intelligence. The company introduced a powerful new, AI-driven tool to protect brands from domain impersonation. Performing domain squatting detection, this NordStellar software helps organizations identify harmful domains before they cause damage. Cybercriminals often use deceptive domains to trick employees, partners, and customers into […]

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ContractPod.AI UDRP: Trademark holder shouldn’t have to register the .AI variant

Posted by DomainGang on March 11, 2025, at 10:35 am

ContractPodAI is a legal technology company that provides an AI-powered contract lifecycle management (CLM) platform. It helps businesses streamline contract creation, negotiation, execution, and compliance using automation, AI, and analytics. The platform integrates with various enterprise tools and is designed to improve efficiency in legal and contract management processes. The company operates from the domain […]

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Nissan + Honda merger feeds domain registrations

Posted by DomainGang on December 23, 2024, at 3:40 pm

Fresh news of an ongoing merger of automotive giants, Nissan and Honda, is causing domain registration frenzy among domainers. Whilst the merger is far from complete, it’d create a super automotive company that’d rank 3rd in the world in terms of vehicle sales. Both companies possess strong, famous brandmarks; both NISSAN and HONDA are world-renowned. […]

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Asweev.com UDRP: Trademark registration application hijacked by serial offender

Posted by DomainGang on September 17, 2024, at 9:49 am

Every day someone scans the USPTO for new trademark registration applications and promptly attempts to register the matching .com domain name. This process has been happening for months by the same offenders, located in China’s Hong Kong. Thousands of domain names are registered every month using this aggressive cybersquatting technique. The method presumably returns big […]

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AlinaHabba.com: Would you really want to squat on a lawyer’s name?

Posted by DomainGang on October 3, 2023, at 12:27 pm

Alina Habba is an Assyrian-American lawyer and Managing Partner of Habba, Madaio & Associates LLP. Ms. Habba also represents former President of the United States, Donald Trump and is a Senior Advisor for MAGA, Inc., Trump’s Super PAC. Donald Trump first became her client in September 2021 as part of a legal team restructure by […]

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PayPal.zip UDRP a reminder of Google’s risky domain names

Posted by DomainGang on June 7, 2023, at 9:21 am

The domain name PayPal.zip was involved in a UDRP; dot .zip is one of two risky gTLDs assigned to Google’s Registry. Along with .mov domains pose the risk of being used in phishing campaigns, as they are associated with .zip and .mov files respectively. In the case of PayPal.zip, the domain is already blacklisted by […]

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Inspirus.xyz UDRP: Brand squatter uses the same sales pitch

Posted by DomainGang on May 17, 2023, at 9:00 am

When you squat on brands with a serial pattern you are a serial cybersquatter. The UDRP involving the domain name inspirus.xyz exposed a domain investor’s practice of registering .XYZ domains of existing brands and offering them for sale, with the same sales copy. The Chinese Respondent lists these infringing domains for sale strategically below the base […]

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