Domain Names

Expired domain name buyout, a risk-free strategy?

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) corresponds to all the techniques adopted to increase the visibility of a website in search engine results. Several strategies have been created to successfully carry out this optimization of a website on search engines. Expired domain … Read More

Rachat de nom de domaine expiré, une stratégie sans risque ?

Le référencement naturel ou SEO (Search Engine Optimization) correspond à l’ensemble des techniques ayant pour but de favoriser la visibilité d’un site internet dans les résultats des moteurs de recherche.  Plusieurs stratégies ont été mises en place pour mener à … Read More

McDonald’s “Big Mac” trademark revoked?

An American fast food chain McDonald’s risks having its trademark “Big Mac” removed by the EUIPO (European Union Intellectual Property Office), after a legal confrontation with a small Irish chain called Supermac. In fact, Supermac filed an opposition before the … Read More

2018: Record number of UDRP cybersquatting complaints filed with WIPO.

On March 15, 2019 WIPO has published its press release entitled “WIPO Cybersquatting Cases Grow by 12% to Reach New Record in 2018”. By virtue of their intellectual property rights, trademark owners are granted protection against domain name registrants who … Read More

Unfair competition and domain names: enlightment by two French court decisions

A domain name enjoys protection, but when does it acquire such protection? Tribunal de Grande Instance of Nanterre, civil division, first chamber, November 3, 2016 The Tribunal de Grande Instance of Nanterre points out that a domain name is a … Read More

“New GTLDs”: where are we?

At the end of 2016, the Afnic, the French Registry, made a report concerning the market of domain names in the world. Thus, since 2014, more than a thousand new  gTLDs arrived on the market, in the image of the … Read More

Further clarifications on UDRP procedures as explained by the WIPO Overview 3.0

Since the creation of the UDRP procedure at the end of 1999, practitioners of the law have expressed their desire for a memorandum summarizing the consensuses among UDRP decisions. The mainly argued legal certainty. WIPO was receptive and started publishing … Read More

Dot brand: they are increasingly adhering

Dot brands are on a roll (2017 – continuation of blog article – New extensions: could the .brand  interest you?) Domain names: status of the <.brand> in 2017 In June 2011, the ICANN launched the new gTLDs program in order to … Read More

How to fight cybersquatting in Russia?

In Russia, no specific procedure is provided for the settlement of country code top-level domain (ccTLDs) disputes. A special defense strategy must therefore be adopted to fight cybersquatting in Russia. Cybersquatting on the rise in Russia The number of Internet … Read More

Domain name: expense or intangible asset?

On December 7, 2016, the Conseil d’Etat(tenth Chamber), issued a judgment which confirms that the domain name is in fact an intangible asset. The issue of the classification of property as expenses or assets Intellectual property cannot be easily classified … Read More