December 25, 2004

Dutch fined for eBay typosquatting

The owners of e-bay.nl have been ordered to pay a fine of 7000 € for registering this domain name [The Register]. Remarkably, under the Regulations for arbitration on .nl domains, there can be "an order for the Domain Name Holder to pay the costs of the arbitration procedure, including the cost of legal assistance provided for in Article 28.8." (article 3.1).

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