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by shabda 5376 days ago
1. Not using copyrighted names.

2. Adding value

3. Not using means such as using expiring names

4. Not using "bottom feeder" tactics like parking page advertising.

From wikipedia: cybersquatting:

" or using a domain name with bad faith intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to someone else"

What goodwill or trademark are they misusing?

[Edit: For formatting, but couldn't get it to look like I want.]

2 comments

It appears that they are using parking page advertising - go to any of the available domains and you'll see that they don't just redirect to Stylate.
Point is it's not their primary profit model. In fact, they'll make next to nothing on parking ads for these domains, being made-up names...unless their customers promote the domain before actually executing the transfer (which would not be a smart thing to do).
Not pointing the domains was an oversight. We will fix this soon.
Not using copyrighted names.

You mean trademarked.