The National Arbitration Forum Blog

Lawyers predict that the Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers' plan to expand the so-called generic top-level domain names … will exacerbate the cybers-quatting problem. Cyber-squatting continues to rise because the business model is still profitable and cyber-squatters constantly have new brand names to exploit, said Paul D. McGrady Jr., a Chicago shareholder in Greenberg Traurig's technology, media and telecommunications practice group. McGrady also said new generic top-level domains "could have quite a dramatic uptick in the number of cyber-squatters and the number of cases."

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