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19 J. Contemp. Legal Issues 530 (2010)
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handle is hein.journals/contli19 and id is 540 raw text is: When Metropolitan Life MET Most Erotic Teens* MICHELLE TRAHER (2006) Cybersquatting involves the pre-emptive, bad faith registration of trademarks as domain names by third parties who do not possess rights in such names. Cybersquatters exploit the first-come, first-served nature of the domain name registration system to register as domain names, third parties' trademarks or business names, as well as variations thereof. This practice of cybersquatting gives rise to disputes between trademark owners and domain name registrants, which present features stretching the capacity of the ordinary judicial system.1 At least in the context of domain-name registration, easy allegations of cybersquatting may recently have become more difficult than before to prove. If so, then we have cause for hope that adjudication of cases between trademark owners and domain name owners will not result in transfer of a domain name in the absence of egregious cybersquatting. BACKGROUND Persons wishing to obtain a second-level domain name in a generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) must apply to register the name with a registrar licensed by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).2 The would-be registrant chooses the registrar and * PH Note: Unless otherwise indicated, all visits to websites have been updated to July 2009. 1. WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center, Guide to WIPO Domain Name Dispute Resolution, http://arbiter.wipo.int, at 3 (undated; last accessed November 2006). [PH Note: A revised version of this statement appears in WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center, Internet Domain Name Disputes: Questions and Answers, available at www.wipo.int/freepublications/en/ecommerce/450/wipopub 1450dn.pdf.] 2. ICANN is responsible for coordinating the management of the technical elements of the Internet's Domain Name System to ensure that all users of the Internet can obtain

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