The Freename Forum

... for a high common level of cybersecurity across the EU (Network and Information Security 2, or NIS-2 for short), the Media Freedom Act (MFA), the Data Governance Act (DGA) and, most recently, the EU AI Act in 2024, the EU has established a highly developed legal system. However, the Chinese and ...

... every domain registrar must impose a transfer lock that prevents a domain from being transferred to another domain registrar if the domain holder data has been changed within the last 60 days. In practice, this problem often arises after a domain purchase if the buyer wishes to transfer the domain ...

... It’s designed to be decentralized, user-controlled, and powered by blockchain technology. Unlike Web2, where large corporations own and control data, Web3 enables individuals to have greater ownership over their digital identity, assets, and interactions. It leverages smart contracts, cryptocurrencies, ...

... to questions on immaterial damages under Art 82 GDPR (Dennis Kaben, Google), information on cloud-based systems in eCommerce (lawyer Seda Dinc), data law and data policy (Dr. Winfried Veit, BMI), a debate on cookies & Co. and many other topics. As always, there will be a joint dinner to round ...

... Nordseeminare.de, in cooperation with Surfen und Recht (surfenundrecht.de), is offering a training course on the topics of AI and copyright, data protection and competition law at the end of March 2025. Lawyer Jörg Heidrich, known from heise.de, is co-speaker of the weekend seminar. From ...

... USA, followed by France with 1,324 and the United Kingdom with only 422 proceedings. Germany initiated 198 proceedings. In terms of opponents, the data shifts slightly: the USA is again number one with 1,814 opponents, followed by China with 831 opponents and France with 353 opponents. Germany ...

... approaches for more stability and security in the Domain Name System, the containment of DNS abuse, the enforcement of the usTLD Nexus Policy and data protection-friendly access to the registration data of domain holders. The Nexus Policy requires a connection between the domain holder and the ...

... 36,451) will receive, in addition to the domain, hosting of the online presence, a specially numbered escrow account for smooth administration and data storage according to the “Lots of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe” (LOCKSS) principle in at least three separately mirrored data centers to ensure access ...

The abolition of a publicly accessible WHOIS directory as a result of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) makes it more difficult for European law enforcement authorities to identify suspects. Eurojust and Europol acknowledged this in their report “Common ...

WHOIS is dead, long live the RDAP (Registration Data Access Protocol): the Internet administration ICANN has retired the old query protocol for contact data on domain holders and replaced it with a more modern information system. Would you like to ...