Sixteen years after the creation of the European extension (in 2005) and thirteen years after the registration of the domain name ymca.eu (in 2008), the… Read More »euADR: YMCA snatches ymca.eu from the hands of a well-known cybersquatter
US company Hudson’s Furniture Showroom, Inc. had initiated UDRP proceedings against a US national over the domain name <hudsonfurniture.com> based on the following unregistered trademark:… Read More »UDRP: no enforceable trademark, no transfer
.DAY, a new gTLD administered by the registry branch of Google, will be available from December 14, 2021. The sunrise period will run until January… Read More »New gTLD : .DAY, from 14 December 2021
Welcome to the first issue of our new format devoted to a short monthly selection of out-of-court decisions relating to domain names. 1. What were… Read More »Review of out-of-court decisions relating to domain names: November 2021
Each year, the Black Friday/Cyber Monday event comes with multiple and heterolytic cyber threats, including cybersquatting and typosquatting. In this regard, the mere creation of… Read More »Black Friday and Cyber Monday: detecting abusive domain name registrations and acting quickly
The directive on measures for a high common level of cybersecurity across the Union, known as “NIS2”, which is at the stage of a proposal… Read More »NIS2 directive (proposal): duties of domain name registries and registrars
In trademark law, a coexistence agreement is an agreement by which the parties, owners of similar or identical trademarks, decide to organize their coexistence, subject… Read More »The coexistence agreement as a mean for preventing disputes relating to domain names
Any distribution agreement must include clear and precise conditions on the use of trademarks, including in the form of domain names. It is not uncommon… Read More »Distribution agreements and domain names
In 2017, the Paris Court of Appeal ordered France.com to transfer the domain name france.com to France (iptwins.com, 2021-04-28; iptwins.com, 2018-07 -05; iptwins.com, 2018-05-15). France.com… Read More »The “france.com” case brought to the United States Supreme Court
Introduction 1. Solutions to combat cybersquatting/typosquatting 2. Specialized TLDs 3. Geographical TLDs 4. TLD as part of the brand 5. Hyphen: with or without? Conclusion… Read More »Domain names: collection of recent extrajudicial procedures that could have been avoided
