Trademark attorneys are warning companies about a new target for cybersquatters known as ".cm," which is the country code — or top level domain — for the West African nation of Cameroon.
Attorneys say this is significant to brand owners because Internet users searching for brand owners' Web sites frequently mistype dot-com as dot-cm and wind up on a bogus site. Not only is Web traffic lost, they say, but a brand name can get diluted or tainted along the way.
"It's a trick-to-click model. They're trying to trick people into thinking they're at a legitimate site," said Enrico Schaefer, founding attorney of Traverse City, Mich.'s Traverse Legal, which specializes in Internet law and online brand protection. "Most companies do not have a clue that this cyber-squatting or typo-squatting is going on. But they are becoming more aware of it all the time."
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