Have you ever come across domains like funnymsn.com, or genuinewindowsvista.com? Or perhaps you’ve just mistyped a URL and ended up somewhere like xbox360com.com? When you go there, these sites are just full of adverts and meaningless content.

For Microsoft, this is a growing problem, because more than 2,000 of these types of domains are registered every day. And now they’ve had enough.

Yesterday, they announced in a press release that they are filing two civil law suits against a total of four defendants who they claim are profiting from these trademark-infringing domains. These defendants are named and shamed in the press release.

Microsoft are also working hard to stop the online auctions that sell these domain names.

I wish them luck. It’s exactly this type of spammy, useless content that the Internet needs less of. Much, much less.

Microsoft Launches Enforcement Campaign Targeting Web Site “Cybersquatters” Who Use Online Ads

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