The Freename Forum

... of certain national classification as well as disclaimers can be taken into account. With reference to previous decisions, the BGH made it clear, among other things, that the mere fact that a website can be accessed in Germany and the consideration that there is always the possibility that non-German-speaking ...

... the Republic of Poland (UPRP) in future. A cooperation agreement was signed at the headquarters of the Patent Office in Warsaw on March 7, 2025. Among other things, it provides for the development of a joint guide for the administration of trademarks and domains as well as the publication of ...

... but a lot has happened in terms of registration figures: although .com is growing again, the registry VeriSign is dampening expectations. And among the newly introduced top level domains, .top has moved back to the top. A gain of over 375,000 domains in February 2025 - so is everything back ...

... round; in 2015, The Forum became the first dispute resolution tribunal accredited to adjudicate URS proceedings. The URS rules state the following among the other decision factors to be considered (5.9) “5.9.1 Trading in domain names for profit, and holding a large portfolio of domain names, are ...

... registered the domain hydacservice.com in March 2022 and offers similar services to the complainant. In an unofficial email, it claimed, among other things, that the domain name is composed of “HYD”, the abbreviation for Hyderabad, and “AC”, the abbreviation for “air conditioning”. Accordingly, ...

... From Friday afternoon on March 28 to Sunday afternoon on March 30, 2025, the new EU legal framework for artificial intelligence will be presented, among other things. Topics covered will include the legal basis and ethical issues of AI, the obligation to provide AI training, subliminal influence ...

... name rights to be asserted as part of the dispute resolution procedure. Accordingly, Mr. Stein, as the complainant in the proceedings, argued, among other things, that his right to a name under Section 12 of the German Civil Code (BGB) was being infringed here; the domain corresponds to his ...

... from their .ai domain to the .com domain, for which Braden Pollock (legalbrandmarketing.com) expects 8-digit US$ prices. This would be financed, among other things, by increased investment from venture capitalists, but also by the rise in cryptocurrency values in recent weeks. As Arif Sengoren ...

... scheduled for February 23, 2025; the responsible rapporteurs have given up. In the end, the negotiations are said to have failed due to the FDP, among others, which is said to have insisted on the vulnerability management provided for in the coalition agreement. According to heise.de, the Greens, ...

... Engineering Task Force (IETF). It provides registration data in the same way as the WHOIS, but its implementation standardizes data access, among other things. It is described in more detail in IETF RFCs 7480 to 7484 and 8056. After WHOIS and RDAP were initially operated in parallel, the ...