LAWS AND CRIMES IN CYBER WORLD WITH REFERENCE TO CYBERSQUATTINGOF DOMAIN NAME: INDIAN PERSPECTIVE

Abstract:
As society goes on changing the nature of crime also changed. In this 21st century cyber crime
is emerging concept of crime. In this present context to tackle this cyber crime legislation is of utmost
importance. For this various issues are unanswerable like Issue of Jurisdiction, Investigation, lack
of Proper authority, etc. In India Information Technology Act, 2000 is the only legislation on cyber
crime, wherein no specific provision has been made for Cyber-squatting. In this Paper the concept of
Cyber-squatting, Domain Name, Policies for resolving Domain Name Dispute has been made.
Introduction:
The business world was resisting the need for the Internet as a tool for success before 1999. They
didn’t find the need to register their trademarks as domain names. However, cyber squatters did see
the increasing importance of the Internet, and saw the businesses making. This results into practice
of cyber-squatting. Cyber squatters took advantage of those companies by registering domain names
identical or similar to the business trademarks. Domain name registrars accept all applications for
domain names by applicants unless that exact identical name is in use. After the cyber squatter has
the domain name registered, the company can no longer have their trademark as their domain name.
This causes a problem since customers and clients frequently try to find businesses online. We will
discuss cyber crime with respect to cyber-squatting, laws in dealing with it and policies to resolve
Domain Name Dispute.