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by lbriner 1541 days ago
I thought ICANN can forcibly transfer a domain that is not being used to another entity who can prove a legitimate need for it?

That was supposed to end a lot of domain squatting, especially since web addresses are kind of crucial to modern companies and in the wild west of the internet, anyone can setup e.g. cocacola.org or something and start trying to steal your customers.

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> that is not being used

How will that be defined? It's not difficult to put up a small website. And just like that, the page is now used.

Or just have a mx record. It's legit usage of a domain. You don't even need a website.
Your example is quite bad since that would be an example of trademark infringement. That isn't what general domain squatting is about