Spokane roofing company owner alleges cybersquatting by rival – Wed, 20 Aug 2014 PST

Two Spokane roofing competitors have ended up in court, wrangling over the ownership of the websiteSpokaneCommercialRoofing.com.

Les Ludtke, owner of Spokane Commercial Roofing, is suing competitor Jeffrey Sitton, saying Sitton cybersquatted his website name, SpokaneCommercialRoofing.com, and caused his business financialharm.

Sitton, a Liberty Lake resident and member of that citys planning commission, owns Spokane RoofingCompany.

Cybersquatting was defined in a 1999 federal law, the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, as registering, trafficking in or using a domain name with bad faith, or with the intent to make a profit from the goodwill of a trademark

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How not to be a cybersquattingvictim

Register a business website early in the process, even before getting atrademark.

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Register domains with misspelled versions of your company name (such as Gogle.com for Google.com).

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Spokane roofing company owner alleges cybersquatting by rival - Wed, 20 Aug 2014 PST