Microsoft sues the black-hearted domain name business lawyer to uncover the domain name registrar shady

"Sohu It News" Beijing time December 25 News: According to foreign media reports, the United States Microsoft company recently sued a domain registrar, accusing them of a large number of Microsoft trademark registration domain name, as well as the registration of "the shape resembles the Li Ghost domain name", and to use this profit.　　Earlier this month, Microsoft filed a petition at a court in Seattle, the defendant is a domain registrar named "Red Register", Microsoft said, the other party registered 125 and Microsoft trademark exactly the same domain name, in order to attract netizens to visit, and rely on online advertising for profit.　　Registration of domain name registrars and some trademarks only a few letters of the domain name, the move in English is called typosquatting, registration of other people's trademarks are called cybersquatting.　　Microsoft said in the indictment that the other party has a large number of domain names such as windowslivecare.com,msnmesnger.com and geofmathology.com.　　Microsoft demanded control of all these domain names and asked the court to impose fines on the registrar.　　It is reported that the actual registration of these domain names is a registered in the Virgin company, before the registrar is "Red register", but Microsoft pointed out that these registration information is false, the behind-the-scenes operator is Red Register Company. According to the US internet controversy lawyer Kronenberger, historically, domain name registrars rely on helping others to register the domain name to obtain income, but because the domain name registration price drops, they have voluntarily started to hoard a large number of domain names, and rely on the transfer of domain name profit.　　In addition, they rely on a "domain name test" means, first register the domain name, and then before the arrival of the payment period to give up.　　Kronenberger said that some domain registrars also registered "son" registrars, who moved domain names from one registrar to another, because each registrar was free to hold a three-day period, so that a domain name was under their control without having to pay. According to the introduction, the current to become a domain name registrars, only need to pay 8,000 dollars a year, then can quickly get the domain name database information, and at a very cheap price register to the domain name.　　Kronenberger says there are currently 1000 domain registrars approved by ICANN worldwide. It is worth mentioning that Google and Microsoft are also currently approved by ICANN's domain name registration agencies, they have begun to provide users with free, and Internet services bundled with international domain names.