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I owned facebook.ky, as a goof, for about 2 weeks 10+ years ago before Facebook claimed it from me. Wild to me that huge banks don’t have a team whose responsibility it is to watch for and seize scam domains

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Facebook[1], Google, etc all use (or used to use) MarkMonitor that offers domain squatting monitoring as a service[2] that utilizes the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy to remove offending domains violating their trademark. These services are quite expensive from my understanding.

[1] It appears Facebook now utilizes their own internal registry.

[2] https://www.markmonitor.com/domain-dispute-recovery-solution...

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