The Freename Forum

... users receive an error message. Many operators do not use domains registered under their own control. As always, the DOTZON study reveals further data and encouraging examples of the use of domains and brand extensions. As always, the 21-page study ‘Digital Corporate Brands 2024’ by DOTZON provides ...

... numerous additional powers with NIS-2. According to Kipker, the draft contains further significant and noteworthy weaknesses with regard to data protection, ‘some of which may even be in breach of EU law’. From the perspective of the German economy, communication and support for regulated ...

... and discusses key elements of the proposed directive on AI liability. Prof Dr Kristian Kersting asks whether artificial intelligence is a cycle of data, data protection and security and, among other presentations, Prof Dr Haya Schulmann shows the impact of technological advances on the cyber security ...

... into national law. Article 28 NIS-2 in particular has a significant impact on the domain name industry, as it sets out requirements for the ‘database of domain name registration data’. However, Germany was not the only country to miss this hurdle; only Belgium and Croatia met the deadline. ...

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 ...

... had prevented a number of measures to combat illegal activities, such as withholding important registration information, ignoring inaccurate WHOIS data and failing to detect repeated cases of “intentional and malicious domain name squatting”. The abuse would have been detectable through a number ...

Federal Minister of Justice Marco Buschmann (FDP) is going on the offensive when it comes to data retention: the bloggers at netzpolitik.org have published a draft bill that aims to establish the “quick freeze” procedure favored by the liberal party. The legal situation ...

... the board. In addition to Vienna, Salzburg and Rheintal, the .at zone is now also represented with a node in Klagenfurt in order to organise data traffic efficiently and reduce latency times. A total of 56 nodes are currently available in two independent clouds in two autonomous systems for ...

... their global impact. It was developed with the support of the Digital Commons Cooperative and uses freely available software to bring together data from numerous organisations around the world. To date, over 12,000 co-operatives have been added to the map. It provides information on co-operatives ...

... users on the Internet. In addition, the threats have changed; the dominant business model of social media has led to a commercialisation of user data and a concentration of power that contradicts Berners-Lee's vision. They therefore asked themselves where they could make the greatest impact in ...