The Rs 45,000 crore Tata group is leaving no stone unturned to protect its domain names on the cyberspace.
Tata Sons, the holding company of the group and the owner of the Tata brand, recently won a case against the Pendse family (not related to the former Tata Finance managing director Dilip Pendse) for having registered numerous domain names with Tata as their prefix as well as names of various Tata group companies.
Tata Sons filed a lawsuit in October 2002 against Chitra and Rajesh Pendse, a couple living in the US before the district court of Northern California for cyber-piracy under the US Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act of 1999.
Senior Tata Sons sources said,
