Editing Reverse domain hijacking (section)

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'''Reverse domain name hijacking''' (also known as '''reverse cybersquatting''' or commonly abbreviated as 'RDNH'), occurs where a rightful [[trademark]] owner attempts to secure a domain name by making [[cybersquatting]] claims against a [[domain name]]’s "cybersquatter" owner.<ref>Sallen v. Corinthians Licenciamentos Ltda., 2002 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 19976 (D. Mass. Dec. 19, 2000), rev’d, 273 F.3d 14, 17 (1st Cir. 2001) [hereinafter Sallen].</ref>  This often intimidates domain name owners into transferring ownership of their domain names to trademark owners to avoid legal action, particularly when the domain names belong to smaller organizations or individuals.<ref>Warren B. Chik, Lord of Your Domain, But Master of None: The Need to Harmonize and Recalibrate the Domain Name Regime of Ownership and Control, 16 INT’L J.L. & INFO. TECH. 8, 60 (2008) [hereinafter Chik].</ref>  Reverse domain name hijacking is most commonly enacted by larger corporations and famous individuals, in defense of their rightful trademark or to prevent libel or slander.<ref>Id.</ref>

Reverse domain name "hijacking" is a legal remedy to counter the practice of [[domain squatting]], wherein individuals hold many registered domain names containing famous third party trademarks with the intent of profiting by selling the domain names back to trademark owners.<ref>Sallen, supra note 1.</ref> Trademark owners initially responded by filing cybersquatting lawsuits against registrants to enforce their trademark rights.<ref>Id.</ref> However, as the number of cybersquatting incidents grew, trademark owners noticed that registrants would often settle their cases rather than litigate.<ref>Id.</ref>  Cybersquatting lawsuits are a defensive strategy to combat cybersquatting, however such lawsuits may also be used as a way of strongarming innocent domain name registrants into giving up domain names that the trademark owner is not, in fact, entitled to.<ref>Schmidheiny v. Weber, 164 F.Supp.2d 484, 487 (E.D. Pa. 2001).</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Fridman|first1=David|title=Domain Hijacking and the Risks it Poses to your Brand|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140606144653/https://www.brandshield.com/blog/?p=48|publisher=BrandShield|accessdate=22 October 2014|quote=The smaller rightful domain owners are often intimidated by legal action and much of the time give up the rights to that domain.}}</ref>