Domain name extortion

• Possible to register a domain that someone else wants, and then only transfer ownership upon payment
• NSI policy takes care of registering trademarks
• Non-trademarks still in danger of being extorted
• Examples:
  • Joshua Quittner gets high-speed access for a school in exchange for mcdonalds.com
  • Princeton Review registers kaplan.com put negative comments about competition
  • Adega LLC registers a large number of domains to sell to candidates in the 2000 elections; includes GOP2000.org, DNC2000.org, forbes2000.com, bradley2000.org

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