AnnualCreditReport.com goes following a big typosquatter

Firm behind government-mandated free annual credit note site demands control of 227 typos.

Central Source, a firm created by the three major U.S. consumer credit bureaus, has filed an in rem lawsuit against 227 typos of its AnnualCreditReport.com domain name.

This is the sixth cybersquatting lawsuit the firm has filed this year to crack down on people typosquatting its domain name.

A test of the domain names shows that most use Moniker forwarding to land on a parked page at AAnnualReport.com. That domain has a disclaimer on it saying it’s not affiliated with the US-government mandated site that provides a free annual credit note:

This website provides a listing of credit note firm advertisements, is not responsible for the advertisements placed herien and is not affiliated with annualcreditreport.com created by FTC mandate under the FACT Act.

The complaint alleges that the whois information for the domains changed to someone in China following the firm sent a cease and desist.

Wiley Rein LLP is representing Central Source. You can view the lawsuit filing, counting the list of 227 domain names, here (pdf).