Konga embarks on Legal Action against Rocket Internet over Domain Squatting

Officials of Konga.com have informed Innovation Village that they would be taking legal action against Rocket Internet for Domain Squatting (a.k.a Cyber Squatting).

Domain Squatting (also known as Cybersquatting), according to the United States federal law known as the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, is registering, trafficking in, or using a domain name with bad faith intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to someone else. (Wikipedia)

The officials say that Rocket Internet registered 11 domain names related to Konga outside Nigeria and are taking other steps to stifle the growth of Nigerian businesses in the sectors they want to dominate. The domain names are as listed below:

konga.cd
konga.cm
konga.ly
konga.ma
konga.mu
konga.mw
konga.na
konga.sc
konga.sh
konga.co.ke
konga.co.za

According to Konga, even when the transgression was noticed, their request to get the domain names back proved abortive.

Hence Konga is going ahead legal actions in the different jurisdictions where these domain names were registered

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Konga points out that the domains were registered even before Konga.com launched formally in Nigeria.