The Judge in the Munich court said the registration of
daimlerchrysler.org and other names was in contravention of German
trade mark laws.
Cybersquatting is the practice of registering a domain name in
the knowledge that someone else will want it. The intention is
often to hold the company which wants it to ransom. In Europe,
there is no specific law against cybersquatting, but cases can be
brought before the European courts on the grounds of trademark
infringement and, in some countries, including the UK, the law of
“passing off,” where one business misrepresents itself as being
connected with another.
Disputes over global top level domains such as .com, .org and
.net, and a few country code domains (although neither .uk nor
Germany’s .de ) can alternatively be brought before a panel of the
World Intellectual Property Organisation in the case of
cybersquatting.
