It is illegal to cyber squat. See this about typosquatting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typosquatting

This is the example I used when talking to shaniac about it:

In the instance of a domain like ansolutepoker.com, this is an analogous live situation...

Let's say I looked exactly like you. And since Thayer Rasmussen is obv a big deal, I decide to look as much like you as possible (Yankees hat, etc) in the hopes that someone will mistake me for you when I go play a WSOP event. Luckily for me, a poker site marketing person comes up to me and says "WOWOWOW are you really thayer? You're totally awesome man. I'll give you 1k if you wear this patch on your shirt. I also really like what you did with the E in your name." So I accept the money and I proceed to wear the shirt and play the tournament. The rep later sees the real you, but he thinks he already talked to you, so he doesn't approach you and you never get paid for wearing a patch.

Do you think that should be illegal?

"... I also really like what you did with the E in your name."

That is some funny **** right there.

Nat, yea I agree with you on the impersonating part. I guess I really just meant the act of owning the sites.

The aliasing is the impersonation aspect here.

1667. Patrickantoniusblog.com
1668. Patrickantoniusfulltilt.com
1669. Patrickantoniusfulltiltpoker.com
1670. Patrickantoniuspoker.com
1671. Patrickantoniuspokerblog.com

lol.

also:

2198. Vanessaselbstpoker.com

I would mail em and claim it.

i got owned

Domain Name: JONATHANAGUIAR.COM
Created on: 04-Jun-08
Expires on: 05-Jun-09
Last Updated on: 04-Jun-08

Administrative Contact:
Yunessa, Mark
PO Box 9566
Newport Beach, CA 92658
United States
9492098790 Fax --

http://domains.adrforum.com/domains/...ns/1228169.htm
lol brings back memories of having to type case assignments blahhh

Fwiw from wiki -

The Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (UDRP) is a process established by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) for the resolution of disputes regarding the registration of internet domain names. The UDRP currently applies to all .biz, .com, .info, .name, .net, and .org top-level domains, and some country code top-level domains.

When a registrant chooses a domain name, the registrant must “represent and warrant,” among other things, that registering the name “will not infringe upon or otherwise violate the rights of any third party,” and agree to participate in an arbitration-like proceeding should any third party assert such a claim.

A complainant in a UDRP proceeding must establish three elements to succeed:

* The domain name is identical or confusingly similar to a trademark or service mark in which the complainant has rights;
* The registrant does not have any rights or legitimate interests in the domain name; and
* The registrant registered the domain name and is using it in "bad faith."

So much for that theory ...

N82FTW

I highly doubt full tilt owns any of these domain names. 99% it's some affiliate(s) redirecting through their affiliate link to try to sign up players.

Resultado de consulta Whois

Dominio: fulltiltpoker.cr
Titular del dominio Your Whois Privacy
Contacto Administrativo International Domain Administrator
hostmaster@safenames.net
Safenames Ltd
MK6 3ZE
United Kingdom Milton Keynes PObox 5085
44-1908-200022 0
Contacto Técnico International Damain Tech
tec@safenames.net
Safenames LTD
0
Costa Rica San Jos
44-1908-200022 0
Fecha creación 12 Dec 2008
Fecha vencimiento 12 Dec 2009
Fecha última actualización
Servidor 1: pdns1.ultradns.net


Full Tilt bought fulltiltpoker.cr

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You've got the % wrong -- it's actually 99% that Full Tilt owns them. The usage of SafeNames as the registrar makes it very unlikely that it's a random affiliate. Also, as I said, the domains reverse IP back to the Full Tilt server.

They didn't necessarily buy that domain in order to capitalize on your total awesomness. You're not the only person in the world with that name.

Someone has my name as a domain and I'm def subawesome.

also, that one is not owned by FT

He didn't sat FT owned it, just that someone owned his name as a domain.

Right, but I thought it might be confusing for some people when you said "they" and it was a specific/named guy who bought it. "They" could easily be mistaken for FT considering the context of the thread.

Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy

You can get your name back under this procedure.

Wow that's pretty interesting.

no but it was some other dude who is squatting a bunch of gambling and vegas related names

do you guys ever check out mattsterling.com?

its nsfw and I am very very sad I didnt get this domain back in 1994 when i was creating webpages, I'm pretty dumb.. maybe they already had it then though, i dunno.

*clears history*, lol

oh and it looks like ftp has my (real) name registered, both john and johnny

i'm sort of flattered i guess

It seems like they've registered everyone who's made a WSOP or other major FT.