Re: Cybersquatters and netbsd.ru domain

[Pierre-Philipp Braun <pbraun%nethence.com@localhost>]

On 04/09/2022 14:18, Dmitrii Postolov wrote:
> I want to appeal to the Community with such a question. In Russia, 
> cybersquatter(s) seized the netbsd.ru domain and are trying to sell it, 
> the amount of 10,000 rubles is called, but this can be a lie. There is a 
> NetBSD community in Russia, on the social network VK.com and on the 
> sites runetbsd.ru, and news site opennet.ru. Maybe The NetBSD 
> Foundation, as a trademark owner, will try to file a complaint against 
> the cybersquatter(s) so that the netbsd.ru domain belongs to TNF?

Hello Dmitrii, do you have a specific web site project in mind for 
netbsd.ru ?  The domain doesn't seen to have been in use before so I 
suppose it would be hard to make a case.  In general, do those types of 
complain even work in a more critical scenario?  It's unfortunately a 
very common practice *1 and many domains are held like that.  You're 
talking about a domain held by https://domainparking.ru/ but I've also 
noticed a few are held by nic.ru (RU-CENTER) itself, which is a 
registrar!  This leads me to assume it's legal practice and we cannot do 
much against it.

*1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybersquatting