The illegal activity of buying and registering a domain name which is a well-known brand or someone's name, with the intent of selling it to its rightful owner in order to make a pr [..]

the practice of registering well-known names as Internet domain names, in the hope of reselling them at a profit

The practice of acquiring a business name, trademark, or celebrity name as a domain name, hoping to later profit by reselling the domain name back to the company or person who has been disadvantaged. [..]

The practice of registering Internet domain names--usually based on prominent trade names, trademarks, or corporate names--before the legitimate holders of same have had an opportunity or interest in registering the domain names for themselves. Note: Cybersquatters engage(d) in this practice, which has now been ruled illegal, for the purpose of (a) [..]

Dictionary of Internet Terms The act of registering a company name as a domain name by someone outside the company in hopes of selling it to the company for a profit.Anti-cybersquatting legislation has been introduced to make it illegal.

Registering popular domain names solely to profit from selling them to businesses wishing to establish an actual website. These domain names are often related to specific brands and sold at unreasonab [..]

Registering domains related to other trademarks or brands in an attempt to cash in on the value created by said trademark or brand.

Cybersquatting is the practice of acquiring domain names of registered trade names and selling them on to the trade mark owner at inflated prices, often connected with other money raising activities such as blackmail and links to competitors sites etcetera. A related ploy is to use common misspellings of trade marks to drive traffic to a site.

acting with a bad faith intent to profit from the goodwill of another's trademark, by registering, trafficking in, or using a domain name that is identical to, or confusingly similar to a distinc [..]

“Cyber squatters are those who attempt to profit from the internet by reserving and later reselling or licensing domain names back to the companies that spent millions of dollars developing the goodwi [..]

The term cybersquatting refers to the practice of registering a third party’s intellectual property as a domain name with the sole intention of approaching them with an offer to sell it to them. The p [..]

The bad faith registration of trademarks, as domain names, by non-trademark owners, who then try to sell the domain names back to the trademark owners.

The practice of abusing trademarks within the domain name system. Brand names—spelled correctly or, in a practice known as typosquatting, spelled incorrectly—are used within a domain name, enabling th [..]

Cybersquatting refers to illegal domain name registration or use. Cybersquatting can have a few different variations, but its primary purpose is to steal or misspell a domain name in order to profit f [..]

The act of registering another company's trademark as your own domain name, presumably with the intent to sell the domain name to the trademark owner at a substantial profit.

(computing) The registration of a well-known brand or company name as an Internet domain name in the hope of selling it at a later date * '''1996''', Jeff Kuester, ''re: They want to take scooby.co [..]