Cybersquatter Edit Meaning

1.

A person who registers or acquires a domain name that is confusingly similar to a mark in which another person has rights (via a trademark, for instance); provided the cybersquatter is attempting to take advantage of the goodwill of the trademark holder.

The person who registers kitchen is probably not a cybersquatter, while a person who registers marthastewartkitchen probably is.

See domainer, trademark

2.

A person who purchases domain names in order to sell them.

That cybersquatter sold drugs for one million dollars last year.