The appeals court held in
The Prudential Insurance Company of America v. Shenzhen Stone Network Information Ltd that Shenzhen, a Chinese financial information company, engaged in cybersquatting when it re-registered the domain name PRU.com after acquiring the website name from its initial registrant, an unnamed Texas company. The 4th Circuit panel, Judges Henry Floyd, Albert Diaz and Stephanie Thacker, said in an opinion written by Thacker that limiting liability to the original domain name registrant would undermine the intent of the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act...
