Chris Bosh Wins Cybersquatting Lawsuit, Gives Domain Names Back to University of Michigan Athletes

Toronto Raptors forward Chris Bosh won a cybersquatting lawsuit under the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act against Luis Zavala for the chrisbosh.com domain name earlier this month.  As a part of the decision, Bosh was given the rights to over 800 other domain names that incorporate the names of celebrities, including University of Michigan athletes Darryl Stonum and Laval Lucas-Perry.

Is Name Squatting a Problem in the Apple iPhone App Store?

Macrumors.com reports that Apple iPhone App Store developers are complaining about other users squatting on potential application names to reserve the best application names.  This issue was first mentioned by iPhone developer Atomic Antelope, who noticed that the App Store name for their upcoming application had been squatted and no current iPhone application was being offered under that name. 

iTunes Connect allows users to partially submit an application for an iPhone app without submitting the actual binary for the app at that time.  This gives developers the opportunity to horde the best application names without offering an actual application for sale under that name.  MacRumors believes that the anonymous nature of this hording separates it from cybersquatting because cybersquatters typically want to sell their domain names to third parties. 

Cybersquatting Athlete & Sports-Related Names

Cybersquatting Famous Sports Figures & Athletes:  

In celebration of theDetroit Tigers playing in Minnesota tonight for the Central Division Championship, we thought it appropriate to take a look at who might be cybersquatting / typo-squatting the teams and players in tonights match up. Without further fanfare ...  (Results by Domaintools.com)

• Typo-squatters on www.DetroitTigers.com
• Typo-squatting JustinVerlander.com
• Typo-squatters on ComericaPark.com
• Typo-squating on MinnesotaTwins.com
• Typo-squatting on the yet to be opened TargetField.com
• Typo-squatting JoeMauer.com

Glenn Beck's Lawyers Seek to Limit the First Amendment Right to Free Speech

The Web Site at Issue: www.GlennBeckRapedandMurderedAyoungGirlIn1990.com

This web site, clearly identified as a parody, asks: "Why won't Glenn Beck deny these allegations? We're not accusing Glenn Beck of raping and murdering a young girl in 1990 - in fact, we think he didn't! But we can't help but wonder, since he has failed to deny these horrible allegations. Why won't he deny that he raped and killed a young girl in 1990?" But is this domain name really cybersquatting the Glenn Beck name or simply fair commentary / parody protected under our United States Constitution and the right to free speech? Our cybersquatting lawyers provide the answer below ....