The request appears to be in connection with a lawsuit against Unicaresoft. Unicaresoft develops software that offers online security for children and had argued the necessity of registering the domain name "MSNLOCK" to be able to inform parents about Unicaresoft's solution to prevent excessive use of chat and internet among children. According to Digital Media Europe with its request to remove the entry for verb "msn-ing" from dictionary, Microsoft wants to prevent that the term be used by other companies as a brand name.