The Freename Forum

... German law on the internet depends on a sufficient domestic connection, in the assessment of which domain endings are also taken into account. The dispute between a group of companies that manufactures and sells clothing and the defendant based in Germany revolved around 318 images of models wearing ...

... saw its trademark rights infringed by the domain breitling.com.de and - although it is a .de domain - took the matter to The Forum to conduct dispute resolution proceedings. And rightly so. There is no dispute resolution procedure like the UDRP for the German country code extension .de. From ...

In a recent decision by The Forum in the dispute over the domain fucklockheedmartin.com, the deciding panel was faced with the question of when a domain name falls under the protection of non-commercial freedom of expression. Lockheed Martin ...

The Geneva-based World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is expanding its range of out-of-court domain name dispute resolution procedures. Since February 2025, legal disputes over domain names with the country extension .ht (Haiti) can also be brought before WIPO. The “Règlement ...

CZ.NIC, administrator of the Czech country code extension .cz, is in trouble with its out-of-court dispute resolution procedure Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR). This was triggered by a dispute with CZ.NIC member AliaWeb, which had applied to the court to declare a decision ...

... and the domain lh.com was transferred to Lufthansa. It is not known what Lufthansa paid for it. The view taken by the panel in the lh.com dispute in 2008, that registering domains in order to sell them does not constitute a right or legitimate interest within the meaning of the UDRP rules, ...

The .eu registry EURid has announced that it will reduce the fees for Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) proceedings for another year. In order to continue to support the interests of trademark rights holders, EURid has extended the discount on the .eu ADR procedure ...

Ernsting's family GmbH & Co. KG has won 32 fake shop domains in extensive UDRP proceedings before the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). The opponents remained silent. The German textile retailer Ernsting's family GmbH & Co. KG saw its trademarks infringed by numerous domains s...

... report on UDRP decisions for the year and the fourth quarter of 2024. The number of UDRP proceedings continues to rise. “Gigalaw's Domain Dispute Digest Fourth Quarter, 2024” is a 16-page report on the development of UDRP proceedings in the last three months of last year and the development ...

... and providing the technical and other services required to operate a gTLD”, reads Procedural Order No. 10 of the International Centre For Dispute Resolution dated February 13, 2025. And this has apparently been the case for quite some time: ”GCCIX has not had the legal capacity to operate ...