Cybersquatting to increase.(World Intellectual Property Organization, European Commission fight improper use of Internet domain names)(Brief Article)

Information Systems Auditor, June, 2002

The European Commission (EC) is joining forces with the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) to fight the improper use of Internet domain names. Both organizations expect that the incidence of cybersquatting is set to increase as they anticipate that the internationalization of domain names will also create new opportunities for cybersquatters as it becomes possible to register domain names in non-standard characters such as Chinese.

In its recent report of last year's activities, WIPO notes that there was "a modest decline in the number of cybersquatting cases" in the .com, .net and .org domains. However, this progress was quickly reversed as new generic top-level domains such as .biz and .coop were introduced. Many more generic top-level domains...

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