The High Court has made clear in a test case that a cyber squatter cannot enforce an otherwise valid contract as a matter of public policy.
Senior Judge Lai Siu Chiu, in judgment grounds yesterday, found the indiscriminate registration of generic and non-generic names by management consultancy company 3 Corporate Services (3CS), domain registrar Top3 Media and others made them serial or consummate cyber squatters, a point made by defence lawyers for ride-hailing giant GrabTaxi Holdings (Grab).
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