Seamless and Grubhub appear to be cybersquatting in large numbers

[Raphaël Beauregard-Lacroix]

I don't know to what extent that behavior would fit in the legal box of
cybersquatting or if the restos would have any other claim against grubhub
(trademark or unfair comp.?)

But it does sound pretty wrong!

On Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 6:21 AM Ayden Férdeline <icann at ferdeline.com> wrote:

> This article makes for an interesting read:
> https://newfoodeconomy.org/grubhub-domain-purchases-thousands-shadow-sites/
>
> GrubHub has bought up more than 23,000 domain names. Most seem to match
> the names of the restaurants on its own platform.
>
> *New York City restaurant owner Shivane M. says she was ready to leave
> GrubHub. *
>
> *... Shivane started exploring other options. She says she thought about
> bulking up her restaurant’s web presence and offering orders on her own
> site through a different service, one that offered a flat monthly rate and
> no commission fee. There was just one problem: Someone already owned the
> web domain that matched her restaurant’s name. She looked up the buyer. It
> was GrubHub.*
>
> *... GrubHub has set up generic, templated pages that look like real
> restaurant websites but in fact link only to GrubHub. These pages also
> display phone numbers that GrubHub controls. The calls are forwarded to the
> restaurant, but the platform records each one and charges the restaurant a
> commission fee for every order...*
>
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