Donald Trump is Suing a Brooklyn man for Cyber squatting
Apr 03, 2013
J. Taikwok Yung is 33, lives with his mom in Brooklyn, and bought domain names that criticize billionaire Donald Trump and cybersquatting him. Cybersquatting is a legitimate crime that's defined by the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act. " Cybersquatting (also known as domain squatting), according to the United States federal law known as the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, is registering, trafficking in, or using a domain name with bad faith intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to someone else. The cybersquatter then offers to sell the domain to the person or company who owns a trademark contained within the name at an inflated price. " from wikipedia. Donald Trump is seeking $400,000 in damages from a Brooklyn man, who register four domains trumpindia.com, trumpbeijing.com, trumpmumbai.com and trumpabudhabi.com as domain names of well-known trademarks and then try to sell the names back to the trademark owners...