From May 2 to 6, 2026, the International Trademark Association (INTA) will hold its Annual Meeting in London. This major event will bring together several thousand intellectual property professionals from around the world to discuss developments in trademark law and the growing challenges of brand protection in the digital environment. The IP Twins team will be present.
Defensive domain strategies are usually driven by commercial relevance. But some country-code domains present structural risk factors that make them more attractive to fraud actors and more costly to enforce against. This article explores how registration accessibility, registrar behavior, and dispute complexity can help identify high-risk ccTLDs that may deserve defensive priority — even in markets where a brand has little or no presence.
The 2026 round of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) does not concern brand applicants alone. It also opens a strategic window for cities, regions, and… Read More »New gTLDs 2026: A Strict Legal Framework and a Strategic Opportunity for Territories
The European Digital Omnibus proposal, presented on 19 November 2025 by the European Commission, is part of a broader effort to modernize and harmonize the… Read More »The Effects of the Digital Omnibus on Trademark Protection
The Association Française pour le Nommage Internet en Coopération (AFNIC) is well known to registrars as the registry that manages, among other things, the .fr… Read More »Identity Theft: AFNIC Wins UDRP Case on afnic.report
Beneath the shine of promotions, risks intensify. Each year, Black Friday and Cyber Monday trigger a sharp rise in scams, counterfeit goods, and brand impersonation.… Read More »Black Friday and Cyber Monday: When the Light Also Draws the Shadows
In 2012, the launch of the New gTLD Program quietly introduced a distinct category of extensions: the .BRANDs, top-level domains reserved for a single company.… Read More ».BRAND: When a TLD Becomes Your Own Digital Architecture
From hosts.txt to the upcoming 2026 round, the Domain Name System (DNS) has undergone successive waves of expansion, transforming a technical addressing tool into a… Read More »Forty Years of DNS: From symbolics.com to the Dawn of the 2026 Round
Between October 19 and 20, an outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS) caused service interruptions affecting approximately 2,000 AWS client companies, according to the website[1],… Read More »A DNS error caused the AWS outage on October 19, 2025
On May 30, ICANN published a full draft version of the New gTLD Program: Next Round Applicant Guidebook (AGB). In our previous rundown of considerations… Read More »New gTLD program: analyzing new rules and their relevance for prospective dotBrand applicants
