Even Fortune Magazine struggles with the definition and elements of cybersquatting. In a recent article titled “Help, a competitor bought my Web domain!”, Fortune writer Jennifer Lawinski, who supposedly quotes Christine Jones, general counsel for Web hosting company GoDaddy.com, gets it egregiously wrong by misinforming the readers:

1. Repeatedly stating that you must have a registered trademark to file and prevail under the UDRP.
2. Mysteriously referencing copyright law, which has nothing to do with cyber-squatting.
3. Stating that the registrant must have “the express purpose of competing with you” in order to prevail under the UDRP.
4. Stating that you automatically lose under the UDRP if you let your domain name registration expire, even if you have a registered trademark.
5. Mysteriously referencing patent law as somehow related to the UDRP