Cyber Report

DOMAINAPALOOZA

Verizon Sues Parked.com As Serial Cyber-Squatter

Verizon is seeking $66M in damages from Parked.com and registrar DirectNic for using over 660 domain names with names confusingly similar to Verizon, including typo variations such as 1verizon.net, myverixon.com and myaccountatverizonwireless.com.   Verizon's case, however, faces certain jurisdictional hurdles as both defendants are based in the Cayman Islands and DirectNic was able to dismiss an earlier Verizon lawsuit on jurisdictional grounds in 2011.  

MORE INFO: Verizon Says More Than 600 Websites Used in Cybersquatting Scam, paidContent.org (Jan. 30, 2012)