You're wrong on both counts. Private registration info is
Posted on: January 13, 2021 at 17:49:21 CT
zounami MU
Posts:
65427
Member For:
10.01 yrs
Level:
User
M.O.B. Votes:
7
only known to the registrar. Not ICANN, not the registry, *only* the registrar. And the only way to obtain that information is through a court order or (illegally) hacking into the registrar.
Also, buying domains to flip them for a profit does *not* constitute cybersquatting. If you believe that, then you haven't read the law. And use some common sense: If that were the case, then "domaining" and domain marketplaces wouldn't exist as an industry. The business model of companies like HugeDomains.com is entirely predicated on buying and flipping domains for a profit.
What constitutes cybersquatting is registering/acquiring domains that clearly infringe on another party's exclusive trademark rights, and even then there are exceptions. An example of bad-faith registration ("squatting") is Iam4Mizzou's missouritigers.com, or if someone registered pepsirewards.com, etc.
You're extremely misinformed on this subject.