typosquatting

We previously posted about another legal issue that was keeping Facebook busy, namely, a dispute over its use of the term “timeline” which it settled out of Court. Meanwhile (and more than 2000 miles away), on 30 April 2013 the United States District Court of the Northern District of California handed down a report and recommendation awarding Facebook more than US$2.8 million against 11 defendant ‘typosquatters’. We think US$2.8 million might help soften the blow to the legal budget for using the term “timeline”.