Today, over at thewogs.org, an article was posted, noting that a federal court in Northern California awarded some $33.15 million to Verizon Communications in what is being called the largest cybersquatting judgment ever. The award amount was calculated based on $50,000 per domain name across 663 domain names registered to OnlineNIC.

Verizon had filed the case against OnlineNIC, a San Francisco-based Internet domain registration company, claiming that OnlineNIC registered exactly 663 domain names that were chosen to be easily confused with legitimate the legitimate Verizon Communications brand. Read More »

Over at the Sidney Morning Herald, Cameron Atfield wrote yesterday regarding the newest transgression by a known cybersquatter. The Australian, Liberal National Party (LNP) has been set back by a notorious cybersquatter who has purchased two prime pieces of Queensland political online real estate. Both www.liberalnationalparty.com and www.john-paullangbroek.com have been registered to ‘Wayne Smith’ of Brisbane, Australia.

Wayne Smith is the same person who gained notoriety as a cybersquatter in 2006 when he registered www.bindiirwin.com hours after Steve Irwin died on September 4th. Smith operated www.bindiirwin.com, as what looked to be a tribute site to the Crocodile Hunter’s 8 year old daughter; but the site was actually linked to anti-Israel propaganda and included the names of israeli federal government ministers. Smith also owns terriirwin.org and bindisueirwin.com. More on that story here. Read More »