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Reverse domain name hijacking (which is also known as reverse cybersquatting) happens when a trademark owner tries to secure a domain name by making false cybersquatting claims against a domain name's rightful owner through legal action (e.g., cease and desist, lawsuit) or UDRP.

What is Reverse Domain Hijacking? Reverse domain hijacking (or reverse cybersquatting) is when a registered trade mark owner attempts to secure a domain name by making false typosquatting claims against a domain name's rightful registrant.

Internationalized Domain Names ( IDNs ) enable people around the world to use domain names in local languages and scripts. IDNs are formed using characters from different scripts, such as Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic or Devanagari. These are encoded by the Unicode standard and used as allowed by relevant IDN protocols.

Domain hijacking refers to the wrongful taking of control of a domain name from the rightful name holder. The common use of the term encompasses a number of attacks and incidents. Incidents representative of common forms of attacks are discussed and analyzed in the report.

Circumstances which have been cited by WIPO panels as justification for a finding of reverse domain name hijacking includes: When the registration of the domain predates any trademark rights of the Complainant.

Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) are domain names represented by characters other than the traditional ASCII characters (a through z). Such domain names could contain letters or characters from non-Latin scripts (for example, Arabic or Chinese).

Reverse domain name notation (or reverse-DNS) is a naming convention for components, packages, types or file names used by a programming language, system or framework. Reverse-DNS strings are based on registered domain names, with the order of the components reversed for grouping purposes.