2016年5月29日 星期日

squatter, cybersquatting, cybersquatter, poshest squat

Living in European cities can be expensive, and the Netherlands is no
exception. But for those low on cash, squatting – living in an abandoned
house without paying rent – is legal.

The DW-WORLD Article
http://newsletter.dw-world.de/re?l=ew032lI44va89pI4
£6m house, 30 rooms, one careful anarchist collective: inside Britain's poshest squat
Group plan art installation after taking over Mayfair property dressed as builders

Dell Takes Cybersquatters to Court: PC Maker Alleges Domain Registrars Profited on 'Confusingly Similar' Names (By Brian Krebs)

Verizon won $33.2 million in a "cybersquatting" case against a firm that registered Internet domain names similar to the company's trademarks.


posh 

Pronunciation: /pɒʃ/ 
informal

ADJECTIVE

1Elegant or stylishly luxurious:a posh hotelI’ll have to look posh
1.1British Typical of or belonging to the upper class:she had a posh accent

ADVERB

British
In an upper-class way:trying to talk posh

NOUN

[MASS NOUN] British
The quality of being elegantstylish, or upper class:we finally bought a colour TV, which seemed the height of posh

VERB

[WITH OBJECT] (posh someone/thing upBritish
Smarten someone or something up:we will be getting all poshed up for the company summer ball

Derivatives

poshly

ADVERB



cybersquatting
Registering an Internet domain name for the purpose of reselling it for a profit. One of the more notable transactions was the domain name wallstreet.com, which was registered in 1994 for $70 and sold for one million in 1999. Some people have registered every common name and name combination they can think of with the hopes of making a profit.
Don't Cybersquat a Big Name!
In 1999, the U.S. government passed the Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, which enables trademark holders to obtain civil damages up to $100,000 from cybersquatters that register their trade names or similar-sounding names as domain names. While not directly outlawing cybersquatting, it was an attempt to improve the situation. See page hijacking and domain warehousing.

cybersquatting 

Pronunciation: /ˈsʌɪbəskwɒtɪŋ/ 

NOUN

[MASS NOUN]
The practice of registering names, especially well-known company or brand names, as Internet domains, in the hope of reselling them at a profit.

Derivatives

cybersquatter

Pronunciation: /ˈsʌɪbəskwɒtə/  
NOUN



squat
(LIVE) Show phonetics
verb [I or T] -tt-
to live in an empty building or area of land without the permission of the owner:
Their squatted (in) an old house in King's Cross when their money ran out.

squat Show phonetics
noun [C]
the place that you live in when you are squatting:
They're living in a damp squat with no electricity.

squatter Show phonetics
noun [C]
1 a person who lives in an empty building without permission

2 AUSTRALIAN ENGLISH someone in the past who took land which did not officially belong to them in order to use it for farming ━━ n. うずくまる人[動物]; 無断居住者; 〔豪〕 牧羊農夫.