Defensive Registration
Defensive Registration means registering domain names by a registrant within different TLDs for the primary purpose of protecting his or her intellectual property or trademark.[1] Based on the report entitled "Assessment of ICANN Preliminary Reports on Competition and Pricing" prepared by Michael Kende, an economist and head of Analysys Mason, defensive registration was defined as registration that is not unique, does not resolve, redirects traffic back to a core registration or does not contain unique content.[2]