How 2009 Will Spur The Rebirth Of Cyber Squatting

Chris Dannen — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 16:18:34 -0500

Call it the end of the dot-com world. Next year ICANN, the non-profit that oversees domain name and IP address registration, will start taking applications for new domain name suffixes, creating the potential for billions of new addresses ending with extensions like ".nyc" or ".law." But with the potential for new names comes an almost-certain rebirth of cyber squatting.