Lacoste S.A. recently succeeded in a cybersquatting claim to recover the domain name www.lacosteshop.com. The cybersquatting panel found that Lacoste had numerous trademark registrations to support its rights in the LACOSTE trademark. Moreover, the panel found that the domain name was confusingly similar to the LACOSTE mark. Finally, the cybersquatting panel found that the domain had been registered in bad faith where it intentionally sought to attract Internet users to the website by creating a strong possibility of confusion with the LACOSTE mark and offering links to third-party websites.
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