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... she is not entitled to injunctive relief under Section 97 (1) of the German Copyright Act (UrhG), as there are no acts of making available to the public (Section 19a UrhG) or communication to the public (Section 15 (2) UrhG in conjunction with Section 15 (3) sentence 1 UrhG, Art. 3 (1) of Directive ...

... “ICANN moves to retire Soviet-era .SU country domain name” reported renowned domain blogger Andrew Allemann, referring to a letter from the Public Technical Identifiers (PTI) department of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) dated February 6, 2025, in which ICANN announced that ...

... There were already attempts at such business models in the 2000s. On the one hand, the “Domain Developers Fund” was active from 2008 to 2015 as a public alternative investment fund that invested exclusively in internet domains. But Rick Schwartz had already pursued such a model earlier, after ...

... in the development of the DMARC specification. DMARC stands for “Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance”. This is a public protocol for email authentication which, in combination with SPF (Sender Policy Framework) and DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail), checks whether ...

... confiscation system, contains numerous provisions to regulate anti-social behavior. These include offences against persons, property offences and public order offences, with specific reference to the misuse of intimate images, encouraging or assisting serious self-harm and child abduction. The ...

... in May 2025. “Fourth Proceeding for Proposed Language for Draft Sections of Next Round AGB” - under this unwieldy title, ICANN launched a public comment phase on February 14, 2025, in which anyone can comment on selected parts of the Applicant Guidebook (AGB for short). Specifically, this ...

... wrongly blocked at the time of his research because no copyrights were being infringed via the associated website. It was only after he built up public pressure via netzpolitik.org that numerous blocks were lifted. However, this does not appear to have led to a more careful examination of the ...

... registering a .us domain. Some organizations such as the M3AAWG (Messaging, Malware and Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group) have made their responses public. They essentially propose maintaining the status quo with regard to the administration of .us. .us is critical national infrastructure and has ...

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 ...

... and underline investors confirm that trade in premium .com domains was stronger than in the previous year, even if this is not reflected in public sales. There were numerous .com sales in the 7-digit US$ range that could not be disclosed due to NDAs. The measure of all things remained one-word ...