More aggressive with cybersquatting complaints — WordPress gets
WordPress Foundation files cybersquatting complaints…and wins.
WordPress Foundation appears to be more aggressively going following people that use WordPress in their domain names.
The group has won six cybersquatting complaints in the past month.
In all cases, it seems that WordPress was going following operating websites using the WordPress name in their second level domain name. None of the domain name owners responded to the complaints, and it appears WordPress first sent a demand letter to the owners ahead of filing the cybersquatting complaints.
In one case, the owner of the domain names asked for $10,000 to transfer the names.
It probably doesn’t make sense to challenge WordPress over this, as the owner of TheWordPressHelpers.com discovered last year.
Here are the domain names WordPress has recovered:
- Wordpress-Toronto.com and WordpressSupport.com
- WordPressWebsitecare.com
- Wordpressmaintenanceservices.com
- Wordpresstheme.services
- Wordpresstrainingguides.com
- Plugins-wordpress.org
