Celebrity Cybersquatting: Why Don't Famous People Protect Their Domain Names?

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Cybersquatter offering threesome with Scarlett Johansson! | Latest News

The seemingly fake website isn”t so much of a surprise as the domain that it sits on – scarlettjohansson.com.

While the website has an offer that’’s hard to believe, it’’s even more incredible that the actress could so easily fall prey to a cybersquatter.

For over a decade, Hollywood stars have been the target of cybersquatters – people who buy famous-sounding web domains in hope of benefiting from related publicity.

Web domains including madonna.com, juliaroberts.com and piercebrosnan.com have all appeared in cybersquatting cases before the web’’s governing UN body the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO). (ANI)

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Comments

[Michael Berkens]

I think New York State passed a law last year making it illlegal for anyone (new york resident) from owning a domain that of a living person

[Enrico S.]

Interesting Michael. I have not seen anything on it yet, but will keep a lookout. Do you have a link?

[David]

A bit late, but here's the link to it:

http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=S03814

Considering the one who endorsed it fell victim to such, no wonder there was much gusto getting it through.