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Domain name speculation, popular as domain investing, domain flipping or domaining in professional jargon, [1] is the practice of identifying and registering or acquiring generic Internet domain names as an investment with the intent of selling them later for a profit.
Typosquatting, also called URL hijacking, a sting site, a cousin domain, or a fake URL, is a form of cybersquatting, and possibly brandjacking which relies on mistakes such as typos made by Internet users when inputting a website address into a web browser. A user accidentally entering an incorrect website address may be led to any URL ...
real estate — dotRealEstate LLC [11] Yes .realtor: realtors: To be restricted to members of the National Association of Realtors and the Canadian Real Estate Association, and related associations. [73] Real Estate Domains: Unknown: Yes .realty: realty and housing — Fegistry, LLC [11] Yes .recipes
The policy has been adopted by all ICANN-accredited registrars.It has also been adopted by certain managers of country-code top-level domains (e.g., .nu, .tv, .ws).. The policy is then applicable due to the contract between the registrar (or other registration authority in the case of a country-code top-level domain) and its customer (the domain-name holder or registrant).
Some countries have specific laws against cybersquatting beyond the normal rules of trademark law. For example, according to the United States federal law known as the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA), cybersquatting is registering, trafficking in, or using an Internet domain name with bad faith intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to someone else.
If granted, such an order would compel the registrar of the domain name in question to suspend the operation of, and may lock, the domain name. [64] The US Justice Department would maintain two publicly available lists of domain names. [64] The first list would contain domain names against which the Attorney General has obtained injunctions.
Second-level domains are becoming available now and opened to general registration on 17 August 2014. [32] PANDI Yes: Yes: Yes: 27 February 1993.ie Ireland: Ireland: In 2002, registration was expanded to include persons or businesses with a "real and substantive" connection with the island of Ireland (including Northern Ireland). [33] [34] Yes ...
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