Domeinnaamproeven

WIPO persbericht: Cybersquatting remains on the rise with further risk to trademarks from new registration practices.

Uitgebreide berichtgeving over de onwikkelingen met betrekking tot domeinnaamgeschillen. Veel cijfers en voorbeelden en inzicht in zaken als ‘whois privacy’ en ‘domain name tasting’: 

“Recent developments in the domain name registration system have fostered practices which threaten the interests of trademark owners and cause consumer confusion. Practices such as ‘domain name tasting’ risk turning the domain name system into a mostly speculative market.

Domain name tasting is a practice in which a person or entity (who may be affiliated with a registrar) registers a domain name for a five-day grace period without payment of the registration fee, and parks it on a pay-per-click website monitored for revenue, whereupon the name is dropped or re-registered by a new registrant, thereby starting a new grace period. Only those domain names generating significant traffic are permanently registered. As a result of computer applications, tens of millions of domain names are temporarily registered on this basis each month”

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