by Traverse Legal, reviewed by Enrico Schaefer - January 11, 2011 - k. Cyber Squatting and Domain Dispute News
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:
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