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... domains include addresses that are particularly short and precise, such as hallo.hamburg, beachbar.hamburg or silvester.hamburg, but also numerous three-character domains. They also often contain search terms that are particularly popular with the Google search engine. They can therefore play an ...

Around three weeks before the start of the ‘Summit of the Future’, the warning calls to protect the multi-stakeholder model of network administration are getting louder: at the end of August 2024, the Internet governance organisation ...

... Agency has no objections in accordance with the EU Net Neutrality Regulation. A blocking recommendation by the CUII can only be made if the three-member review committee is unanimous. DNS blocks are the method of choice. They prevent the assignment of a domain to an IP address and thus direct ...

... was fully aware of the complainants' trade marks and was attempting to enrich himself by selling directly to the complainants. Thus, all three elements of the UDRP were fulfilled and the transfer decision was the logical consequence. As predictable as the result was, the legal dispute ...

... deposit is to be abolished. The appellant simply submits an online appeal form and the respondent can also submit their response online. Three experts are then appointed to a complaints panel to make a decision. The public will have until 19 September 2024 to comment on the planned changes; ...

... time in ten years. ‘Gigalaw's Domain Dispute Digest Second Quarter 2024’ is a 15-page report on the development of UDRP proceedings over the past three months. Doug Isenberg analysed the resolved UDRP proceedings of all five ICANN-accredited dispute resolution bodies in April, May and June 2024. ...

... ensure that every top-level domain is accepted by all internet clients such as web browsers, email programmes and routers. Established two- and three-character TLDs such as .de or .com are considered unproblematic in this respect; however, the introduction of hundreds of nTLDs with four or more ...

ICANN launches a webinar series for Europe. The first seminar entitled ‘Identity Verification - Three Approaches’ will take place online on 28 August 2024. Three internet service providers will present their methods for identity verification. The Internet Corporation for ...

... The comments are taken from ‘The ICA UDRP Digest’, which is published weekly. This is followed by explanations of legal issues relating to the three elements of the UDRP procedure. The second section (‘identical or confusing similar to trademark’, No. 1) is dedicated to the question of identity ...

... an ‘incestuous legal triangle’ that would allow VeriSign to make excessive profits without offering a better product or service. Most recently, three Republican representatives of the US House of Representatives also raised the possibility that VeriSign would have to face a public tender. However, ...