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cybersquatting

noun/ˈsaɪbəskwɒtɪŋ/

B2CEFR level
65/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister

Registering in bad faith a domain name that echoes another's mark, typically to extract payment or siphon traffic.

Grabbing our brand-dot-com the day we announced is straightforward cybersquatting.

Similar: domain squatting

Topic: Intellectual property in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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