The Freename Forum

The renowned @kit congress organised by the Bayreuth-based @kit association will take place again next year in Berlin at Google. As in previous years, the specialist journal ‘Kommunikation & Recht’ will also be taking part. A hybrid event with on-site and online participation is planned. Following ...

... expired in 2023, and no longer uses them. He therefore no longer has any reason to hold the domain, under which there has been no website for years. The domain was registered in 1998 and the opponent has been its owner since 2013. By continuing to hold the domain, he is damaging the business ...

... and heavily used top level domain is not compatible with this. Thomas Claburn (theregister.com) assumes that nothing will happen in the next five years. ‘Should ‘IO’ no longer be retained as a coding for this territory, it would trigger a 5-year retirement process described at [the IANA website], ...

The non-profit World Wide Web Foundation is being liquidated after around 15 years. This was announced by its founders Tim Berners-Lee and Rosemary Leith. Instead, work on the ‘Solid Protocol’ is to be intensified. Founded on 17 November 2009 in Washington (DC), ...

... year, the renewal rate was 54.5 per cent, at the end of the third registration year, the rate was 79.6 per cent and for domains older than 18 years, the registration rate was up to 95 per cent. Domains with developed content consistently perform better than parked domains or domains without ...

... Great Britain separated the administration of the Chagos Islands from the colonial territory of Mauritius, which was granted independence three years later. The main island of the archipelago, Diego Garcia, was leased by the kingdom to the USA in 1966, which maintained a military base there. ...

... initiated UDRP proceedings before the Canadian CIIDRC. Among other things, it argued that the opponent had registered the domain cronosgroup.com years after it had started using the term itself and had registered the Cronos Group trade marks. In the past, the opponent had repeatedly registered ...

... 26 September 2024, still contains a clause that gives VeriSign the right to increase the fees for .com domains by seven percent in the last four years of each six-year contract period. VeriSign has always utilised this right in the past. What is new, however, is a clause according to which the ...

... April 2025. The face-to-face event will take place as usual at the Clarion Hotel Stockholm. It will be the eighth Nordic Domain Days (NDD) in ten years and will take place in Stockholm from April 27 to 29, 2025. At the Nordic Domain Days, the domain industry comes together to share experiences ...

... and granted the respondent Gregory comprehensible reasons for the choice of domain. Although the complainant had registered its trademark three years before the opponent registered the domain, the panel of the preliminary decision found that the complainant had no rights to the trademark “SCOOP ...