Australia: Bad-Faith Domain Registrations Grow

Karen Dearne writes on Autralian IT:

The number of "bad faith" domain-name registrations raises concerns that trademarks are increasingly being infringed online, the Advisory Council on Intellectual Property has found.

Bad-faith registrations are where a party deliberately and unlawfully sets out to benefit by registering a domain containing another party's business name and associated trademarks.

The present process of domain-name registration does not require the registrar to check whether the same or similar domain names are already listed.

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