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. Continue reading Domains Dispute Alert: A federal court in Northern California has awarded $33.15 million in a default judgment to Verizon Communications in what the company is calling the largest cybersquatting judgment ever »

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. Continue reading Domain Disputes Alert: Australian Political Party falls prey to a repeat cybersquatter »