Microsoft is suing a typosquatter.
From the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
All the suits allege trademark infringement by creating and registering Internet domain names “confusingly similar” to marks belonging to Microsoft. Such actions are in violation of the Anticybersquatting and Consumer Protection Act, according to the court documents.
For example, if a Web surfer was looking for Microsoft’s Internet portal for news, www.msn.com, but they mistakenly typed in msnnew.com, they would find a site that provided some news links but also links to other fake sites.
The Web site is one of the 95 listed in the lawsuit against Peppler.
Here are a few of the domains created in the hope that Internet surfers mistakenly type an incorrect Web site:
• msnews.com
• microfsoft.com
• internetexplorerdownload.com
• internetexplorerupgrade.com
• halomovies.com
• autoroute.us
• windowsprogram.com
• windowscreensavers.com
• windowsmediaplayer9.com
• wordexcel.com
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