A plumbing business in Pennsylvania has become the subject of a cybersquatting case after it registered more than 200 separate domain names.<\/p>\n
Gillece Services has hundreds of Web addresses under its belt — all of which are related to the plumbing industry.<\/p>\n
Many of the domain names are just misspellings of Gillece and include the names of towns that the company operates in.<\/p>\n
However, the ownership of 13 of the firm’s domain names is being contested by rival companies, which claim that Gillece is using cybersquatting techniques to boost its own Web site’s traffic.<\/p>\n
Fagnelli Plumbing is one of the companies to have filed a lawsuit against Gillece over the firm’s registration of the domain name Fagnelli.com.<\/p>\n
Another plumber, Mark Nix, is also concerned about Gillece’s decision to register marknixplumbing.com.<\/p>\n
Speaking to the Post-Gazette<\/em>, Mr. Nix said, “I think it’s the wrong thing to do for Gillece to go [and] take my website and put his name over top of mine.<\/p>\n “He’s a big enough company, he really doesn’t need to do something like that.”<\/p>\n Recently, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted in favour of increasing the powers judges have when dealing with domain name disputes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A plumbing business in Pennsylvania has become the subject of a cybersquatting case after it registered more than 200 separate domain names. Gillece Services has hundreds of Web addresses under its belt — all of which are related to the plumbing industry. Many of the domain names are just misspellings of Gillece and include the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,7],"tags":[110,153,23,152],"class_list":["post-616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyber-security","category-domains","tag-cybersquatting","tag-domain-name-disputes","tag-domain-names","tag-typosquatting"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n