Squatting

Squatting refers to the practice of claiming unique platform identifiers (like username, email, or domain) with the intention of reserving them for resale, confusion or neglect, rather than for direct use. Some examples:

• Candidates for political office often find that people have already snatched up the domains that might easily be associated with their campaign, and that those domains are either being held ransom, or are pointing to countervailing political candidates or causes.

• Well known internet personae will often find that their username on one site has been scooped up on every other platform - diluting their brand across different monikers, and potentially leading to reputational harm.
• High profile online services will often find that their users are redirected to malicious sites when they incorrectly spell the name of the website (for example - a malicious actor might scoop up the domain for gooogle.com (3 o's) so that when people mistype the URL of the popular search engine, they get a malicious or spammy page).

Squatting isn't necessarily a platform abuse in and of itself, but it does often lead to blackmail, user confusion, and account resale, all of which typically do constitute terms of service violations.