As online services Groupon and Facebook have recently learned, cybersquatters are more than a mere nuisance. Cybersquatting can disrupt or delay business expansion or operations, or compromise security and user experience. Groupon’s planned expansion to Australia was delayed for months because a clone site in Australia named Scoopon purchased the Groupon.com.au domain name, took the … Continue Reading
We are often asked to review web site terms of use. Here are five provisions that often seem to be missing in action (in no particular order): No Scraping With automated screen scraping tools readily available, this data harvesting technique presents issues for websites that allow users to search for data. Even if … Continue Reading
