Cybersquatting Cricket.com? Global Cricket Ventures Faces Domain Challenge
Global Cricket Ventures faces cybersquatting challenge with its acquired domain Cricket.com. The domain name, cricket.com, was acquired as part of a settlement agreement with Live Current Media, who previously owned the domain and used it to feature ads for wireless phones. Now, a domain dispute (case number 1364860) has commenced with the National Arbitration Forum (NAF) and some speculate that the complainant to be Cricket Wireless, a U.S. based company which owns the domain mycricket.com, and have been aggressively acquiring “Cricket” related domain names in recent years:
- cricketwireless.com;
- mycrickit.com and cricketcellular.com;
- cricketphonestore.com, et. al.;
- mycircket.com and wwmycricket.com;
- cricketcommunications.com, et. al.;
- jmycricket.com, et. al.;
- cricketcommunication.com.
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