CitizenHawk TypoAlert: Cybersquatting Continues to Plague Online Kids' Sites

Company urges brand holders to police their own brands to help ensure safety of kids online and maintain the integrity of their brands

Aliso Viejo, CA (PRWEB) June 20, 2007 -- CitizenHawk (http://www.citizenhawk.com), a leading provider of digital brand management (http://www.citizenhawk.com/solutions/brands.html) solutions, is encouraging top children's brand holders to take a more active role in policing their brands against cybersquatting. As a reminder of the urgency of the problem, the company today issued a TypoAlert revealing thousands of instances of cybersquatting on ten of the top learning and entertainment web sites for young children. The following is a list of top online kids' sites and an estimate of the number of potentially trademark-infringing domains on each brand:

Cartoon Network - 537

ClubPenguin - 628

Disney - 247

DiscoveryKids - 225

FunBrain - 398

Nickelodeon - 318

NickJr - 199

PBSKids - 349

Sesame Street - 246

Webkinz - 255

"Cybersquatting on kids' sites is a particularly insidious and dangerous practice, because cybersquatters are not only stealing traffic from legitimate brand holders, but are also in a position to expose children to inappropriate or harmful content," said Graham MacRobie, co-founder, president and chief executive officer of CitizenHawk. "We encourage brand holders in this market to immediately address misuse of their trademarks online, to help ensure safety of kids online and to maintain the integrity of their brands."

For an immediate, free estimate of how many cybersquatters are on your domains, please visit www.citizenhawk.com.

About CitizenHawk:

CitizenHawk is a leading provider of digital brand management solutions that enable companies to monitor, protect and enforce proper use of their brand online. CitizenHawk's patent-pending technology crawls the Web to search for possible misspellings of domain names, identifies instances of trademark infringement, pinpoints how these sites are being monetized, sends notices of fraudulent activity to domain owners, interrupts the flow of money being paid to trademark infringers, and automates legal action to get fraudulent sites stopped for good. Customers include Overstock.com, iFloor.com, 1800PetMeds and Greenberg Traurig. Founded in 2006, CitizenHawk is a privately held company based in Aliso Viejo, California. For more information about CitizenHawk, please visit http://www.citizenhawk.com.

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