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... Bockenheimer Anlage 36, 60322 Frankfurt am Main. As always, the 13th Frankfurt IT Law Day 2024 is recognised as an advanced training event according to § 15 FAO for IT law with 10 hours. The participation costs vary between EUR 487.90 (EUR 410.00 net) for online participation and EUR 511.70 ...

... had not provided any prima facie evidence that the opponent was not authorised. On the other hand, the opponent had demonstrated the criteria according to which he had selected the domain and that he was a domain investor, which resulted in a right to use the domain. With regard to bad faith, ...

... to other domains. SITA is basing the suspension on government sanctions imposed after the start of the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine; according to the Russian interpretation, however, domains are exempt under the ‘General Licence No. 25C3, para (b) of the Office of Foreign Assets Control ...

... crisis in the fashion trade therefore also seems to be affecting the top-level domain. The Middle Kingdom is not reporting good figures either. According to the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), registry of the Chinese country code extension .cn, exactly 19,562,007 .cn domains ...

... This strongly suggests that, knowing about the complainant, he deliberately purchased the domain and thus targeted it. Furthermore, the rule according to which an unused domain does not constitute use in bad faith does not apply here. The opponent had not presented any evidence of an intended ...

... of the pattern behind them. ‘That's why we want to make the CUII more transparent,’ says Damian. He does not reveal where he got the list from; according to netzpolitik.org, the list apparently comes from an internet provider. Despite all the blocks, Damian also points out that they are ineffective ...

... messaging app Telegram, whose CEO Pavel Durov was arrested on Aug. 24, reportedly held $400 million in digital assets as of the end of last year, according to the company’s 2023 financial statement. The app had around four million premium users at the close of 2023, a number that has grown to ...

... a lawyer from Frankfurt/Main, as sole arbitrator to deal with the transfer request of the two complainants. The first element of the UDRP, according to which the domain moon-swatch.com must be identical or confusingly similar to the disputed trade mark, was initially unproblematic. Here, ...

A domain can only be used as a company name under commercial law if it has distinctive character. According to the Court of Appeal, this is not the case for a generic term to which the top level domain .de is attached. The BGH must now decide. The complainant is a public ...

... for allocation to the classic Domain Name System. Domain blogger Kevin Murphy now points out that an application for .farms would be inadmissible according to the current status of the applicant manual. In this manual, ICANN is to be instructed to reject applications for plural and singular variants ...