2007-09-15

Zain Cybersquatted

Cybersquatting is registering, trafficking in, or using a domain name with bad-faith intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to someone else.

Someone set up a blog called Zain Kuwait on domain zain-kwt.com, they did not even get a good picture of the Zain Logo.

Looking up his whois info about the squatter, it seems he/she set up the blog on 13 September 2007, and his email is onasiss.11@hotmail.com. I doubt Zain would use a hotmail email for their registration. The telephone number he put is 9690969 which is MTC/Zain's voicemail number.

Very amateur but it could fool some people. The orginal Zain webpage for kuwait can be found here.


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The Fake Zain





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The Original Zain

4 comments:

  1. Interesting but annoying phenomenon.

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  2. 7esbe allah 3ala ebleesa
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    yan9ib 3al awadim

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  3. didn't get it. how it could fool people?

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  4. That stinks. Reminds me of the debacle when 2M forgot to renew their domain reg, and a squatter put up a porn site.

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