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| Like any other business, your website faces risks. | | | | created by ICANN. It is quick and cheap using it. |
| By the way, you ought to protect your domain | | | | Secondly you can write a cease-and-desist letter |
| name. If you haven’t done that then know | | | | to a cyber squatter informing her to withdraw |
| that it is prone to cyber squatters and domain | | | | the name or else you will take legal actions |
| name hijackers who may steal it any time. There | | | | against her if otherwise she doesn’t. |
| are three sure ways you can protect it. Before I | | | | Thirdly and lastly you can sue the cyber squatter |
| go into details about protecting your domain | | | | to let the court decide the fate of that particular |
| name, you should first know that there is no | | | | trade mark. |
| business operating under the sun that has got no | | | | There is a difference between domain name theft |
| risks. Perhaps that is the reason why businesses | | | | also know as hijacking and cyber squatting. |
| get rewards in term of profits. It is agreed by | | | | Domain theft is a situation where a properly |
| business school of thought that the higher the risk | | | | registered domain is stolen by another person. It |
| in any given business venture, the higher the | | | | is not necessary that this name is a trade mark |
| rewards. | | | | as compared to cyber squatting. Through hacking, |
| Online businesses are no islands on this matter | | | | a person is able to steal your website name. |
| too. It is really heartbreaking and total confusion | | | | Three Sure Ways of Protecting Domain Names |
| when you realize that some cruel lazy person | | | | from Cyber Squatting and Hijacking |
| somewhere has actually messed with your | | | | 1. By Locking it |
| domain name. How has she messed with it? | | | | Locked domain names cannot be transferred to |
| WellÂ… am going to tell you how this happens. | | | | another account or registrar. You should only |
| Cyber squatting is where a person registers a | | | | unlock it when transferring it or at the time of |
| name which is another person’s trade | | | | renewal. |
| mark without his consent. The cyber squatter will | | | | 2. Through Authorization Code |
| sell it at inflated price. If you have a trade mark, | | | | Transfer Authorization Code is a six to sixteen |
| somebody can cyber squatter it. Cyber squatters | | | | characters code that is assigned to your domain |
| usually register many trademarks and speculate | | | | name as a means of securing it from |
| selling them at much higher prices than the ones | | | | unauthorized transfers. Let the code be your |
| they actually paid for. Some will go as far as | | | | secret. |
| registering another level of domain name of the | | | | 3. Through Secure Socket Layer (SSL) |
| trade mark. | | | | SSL enables your surfers to know that indeed |
| There has been cases regarding cyber squatting | | | | they are on the correct domain name they are |
| and if the plaintiff wins the case, then the cyber | | | | searching for. It also protects the information |
| squatter ends up paying for damages caused. | | | | send. This will enable you protect your domain |
| There are options you should use to recover | | | | name from cyber squatters and domain name |
| your trade mark. | | | | hijackers who will try to impersonate your |
| First, you can solve the dispute using Uniform | | | | website name. |
| Domain Name Resolution Policy (UDNRP.) UDNRP is | | | | |