The Freename Forum

... in order to cope with rising costs; however, it is not intended as a source of funding for new work (for example, the nTLD programme or the fight against DNS abuse), nor is it intended to replace other initiatives that would improve ICANN's current financial situation. Specifically, ICANN wants ...

In a recent article, GoDaddy employees Bartosz Mozyrko and Mihai Nicolae explain what the US registrar is doing to combat so-called ‘shill bidding’ in domain auctions. Shill bidding in domain auctions has always been a problem. The price of a domain is driven up by false bids. There are several form...

... trademark to have been infringed by the af-ss.org domain and, together with the law firm Fish & Richardson P.C., initiated UDRP proceedings against the domain owner Christopher Johnson before The Forum. The complainant has been the trademark owner since 2003 and last renewed the trademark ...

... to the requirements placed on them. In turn, however, opponents have also developed, who do not take a position if there are no arguments against the complainants' allegations, or seek professional help to successfully counter the complaint. Levine outlines the key requirements for complainants ...

A US financial services provider founded in 2017 with the trademark “EAGLE DATA” registered in its favor in 2024 started UDRP proceedings against the owner of the domain eagledata.com, which was registered in 2002. This went very wrong. The US company Eagle Data Inc. believes that its trademark ...

... The BACS therefore recommends, among other things: If a domain is no longer in use, weigh up the (low) costs of being able to keep it anyway against the possible consequences of a third party taking over the domain. The BACS recommendations can be found at: https://www.ncsc.admin.ch/ncsc/en/home/aktuell/im-fokus/2024/wochenrueckblick_42.html

Since January 2024, the US registrar Namecheap Inc. has been in dispute with the Internet registry ICANN before the Superior Court of the State of California (Case No. 24SMCP00066). At the center of this civil dispute, which follows an Independent Review Process (IRP), is the removal of so-called “p...

US Senator Mark R. Warner, Chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence, wants to hold domain registrars more accountable in the fight against “fake news”. He threatened legal remedies in the event of failures. At the beginning of September 2024, the US Department of Justice announced that ...

... of the United States District Court for the District of Arizona has been handed down. In UDRP proceedings brought by Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A against the owner of the domain lambo.com, the complainant was successful before the WIPO: the three-judge panel found that the three elements of the ...

... us to point out that a person named Sundram Tiwari has filed a “Request for Reconsideration” with ICANN on behalf of a company called Asxit LLC against the extension of the .com contract with VeriSign. The reason given is: “As the current operator, Verisign's management of the .COM registry ...