cybersquatting

Mary Jane Irwin · 10/02/07 12:57PM

AOL wants a tasty chunk of the 9 million people addicted to the massively multiplayer game World of Warcraft. Its rumored plan is to lure WOW players into AOL's clutches with a dedicated social network at its wow.com domain, dormant for years. Just one problem: Is it setting itself up for a cybersquatting lawsuit? [TechCrunch]

Jordan Golson · 10/01/07 03:51PM

In 2005 Facebook bought the Facebook.com domain name for $200,000. Now, Facebook has gotten ahold of Face-book.com via a ruling from the World Intellectual Property Organization. So, how much did it cost them this time? Aside from its own lawyers fees, just $1,500 to the WIPO dispute resolution service. [The Register]