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Credit bureaus go following more AnnualCreditReport.com typosquatters

Firm states that domains are typos of its AnnualCreditReport.com site.

Central Source, a firm created by the three major U.S. consumer credit bureaus to AnnualCreditReport.com, has filed another lawsuit (pdf) against alleged typosquatting domain names.

The firm has filed at least 10 cases in the past counting one against 227 domain names.

The latest suit is against 15 domain names counting annualcrediitreport(dot)com, wwwannualcreditreports(dot)com and httpannualcreditreport(dot)com.

Central Source states it has tried to identify the owners of the domain names but was thwarted by Whois privacy services and fake Whois information.

The in rem lawsuit was filed in Virginia, the home of .com registry Verisign. Many plaintiffs files in rem suits there to recover domain names.

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