Cybersquatting

Internet is playing major and key role in our daily life especially in business, from two decades. The domain name / internet website address is very important and plays major role in the current IT trend based life style. The business people, consumers prefer same domain name as their trade name, even the famous people like their names as the address of their websites or blogs. The “cyber squatters” are unauthorized people with bad intention, they register domain names of other people´s name or famous business. They resell the domain names with high price or misuse to create loss to others business. This paper explains cybersquatting, organizations and laws controlling cybersquatting, and some suggestions to avoid the rise of cybersquatting.