The Freename Forum

In a recent UDRP decision by The Forum, it becomes clear that a 67-year-old business name does not readily give rise to a trade mark that fulfils the first requirement of the UDRP in the context of the proceedings. The complainant in the dispute over the ...

The international management consultancy DOTZON GmbH recently published its sixth ‘Digital Corporate Brands’ ranking study, this time for the year 2024. The neck-and-neck race between the three-time number 1 .audi and three-time number 1 .leclerc once again ended with a change of leadership in ...

... situation. Specifically, ICANN wants to increase the quarterly fixed fee for registries from US$ 6,250 to US$ 6,450, i.e. to US$ 25,800 per year; the transaction fee is to rise to US$ 0.258. More importantly, by aligning fees with general price increases, future increases are likely to occur ...

... pensions; however, it is doubtful that the NIS2UmsuCG is one of them. If new elections are held in February 2025, it could be well into next year before the fate of the NIS2UmsuCG is finalised. You can find a video (in German) of the NIS-2 hearing here: https://www.bundestag.de/ausschuesse/a04_inneres/anhoerungen/1026172-1026172 ...

... and the burden on resources increases as fraudulent accounts and communications need to be managed. For these reasons, GoDaddy has been busy this year and outlines in the article ‘How GoDaddy Auctions Fights Fraud to Increase Customer Trust’ what measures have been taken to combat bait-and-switch ...

... to the report, exactly 4,249,923 .au domains were registered as at 30 June 2024, a slight increase of 0.3 percent compared to the previous year. In 2022-2023, growth was still at 17.6 per cent, which auDA primarily associates with the introduction of second-level domain registrations directly ...

The .fr administrator AFNIC has drawn a positive conclusion one year after the launch of the voluntary ‘mediation service’. Since 3 July 2023, AFNIC has been offering an out-of-court dispute resolution procedure for .fr and all French overseas TLDs; it gives ...

... previous quarter; however, if .com and .net alone are taken into account, the decline is 1.1 million domains, with the renewal rate also falling year-on-year from 73.5 per cent to 72.3 per cent. While falling demand from China was previously one of the main explanations for the decline, VeriSign ...

... how the term “use” should be understood in the context of bad faith use of the domain. Does passively holding a domain constitute “use”? Over the years, the interpretation of the UDRP, which is reflected in the WIPO reviews (2005, 20011 and 2017), has evolved through a number of other early cases ...

... had been living with it for a decade and were now jaded. However, he at least hoped that the transition had come closer. Around two and a half years later, Huston has also given up this hope. For the year 2024, he has calculated that just over a third of internet users will be able to access ...