Hobby Lobby beats typo-squatter after 22 years

Typo-squatting is the “art” of taking advantage of people’s fat-fingering when they type in a domain name. In the case of wwwHobbyLobby.com, the “www” prefix is taking advantage of a common typo: missing out on that dot. Registered in 2002, the domain has been parked with PPC providers for over two decades. When parked on […]

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Equefax.com: Typo-squatter lost #domain after 20+ years

A typo-squatter has lost the domain name Equefax.com after using it for more than two decades to monetize fat-fingering of the Equifax brand. The domain name was registered in 2002, at a time when UDRP filings were still few. The UDRP process was established in 1999. Equefax.com forwarded to PPC landers featuring financial services, credit […]

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lnstagram.eu to be deleted after UDRP at the WIPO

The domain lnstagram.eu was challenged via the UDRP process at the WIPO. The Complainant is Instagram, LLC of Menlo Park, California, and there is no doubt that INSTAGRAM is by now a famous trademark. The domain was ordered to be deleted, because that first letter isn’t an “i” but an “l.” This type of visual […]

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