Manwin issued the following press release today regarding legal action it has taken against numerous alleged cybersquatters.
LOS ANGELES—Pornhub.com, Tube8.com and Youporn.com filed three cybersquatting complaints on August 14 against 30, 24 and 29 domain name infringers, respectively.
These websites are visited by millions of people every day and are among the most visited websites in the United States. With this complaint, they are pursuing their brand and domain protection strategy and seeking to put an immediate stop to as well as obtain redress for defendants’ coordinated and explicit campaign of cybersquatting, and appropriation of Pornhub, Tube8 and Youporn trademarks and domain names.
The defendants are one or more individuals in the “business” of registering Internet domain names, incorporating trademarks owned by others, also known as cybersquatters.
Cybersquatters often seek to trade off popular brand names and websites owned by others by, among other things, using confusingly similar domain names to re-direct members of the public to the cybersquatter’s website, rather than to the trademark owner’s legitimate website.
These cases are part of a second series of cybersquatting complaints to be filed by Pornhub, Tube8 and Youporn, to defend and protect their brands and business against illegal and unlawful exploitation.
