Domain Name Registration Legal Issues

Discussion in domain names started by perfectblue jun 30 2008.

Domain name registration legal issues. Only turn this off if you are transferring your domain name to a new registrar and then immediately turn it back on once the transfer is complete. If the name is available a registration can be filed with internic using their on line registration form. Turning it on prevents unauthorized unwanted or accidental changes to your domain name. The following are some of the most common legal issues to consider or which may arise when it comes to acquiring a domain name.

I hold the net and org of an mnc company with offices across 11 countries. Registrar lock is an status code that can be turned on or off within your account for each domain. At this point the domain registration authority should strike it from the domain name system until someone else uses it. This may cause confusion in the market with the domain co uk and uk being managed by different businesses but for the same business area.

Legal issues on domain name. In order to better protect a domain name and to avoid losing a domain name under the internic domain name dispute policy a domain name owner should obtain a trademark registration on. The domain name disputes section of bitlaw discusses domain name legal issues including a background on domain names as well as ownership and trademark disputes. Companies should consider having a trademark search performed with the assistance of competent legal counsel to determine whether their choice of domain name creates the potential for liability for trademark infringement.

These issues need to guide your thinking when considering and ultimately deciding upon a domain name whether the domain name is available for purchase and registration or not. Obtaining a domain name. One of these changes is that the automatic right to an uk domain name expired on 25 june 2019. Thus simply determining whether a domain name is available for registration is not enough.

If the date that the trademark was first registered predated the domain name registration the domain name owner had to supply their own trademark registration for the. I have been a user of the internet since before the www and i saw the hoarding of domain names as a bad practice by those trying to find ways to monetise the internet during the dot com bubble era. Now anyone can register a domain name that may already be held by a company with a co uk domain name. The legal issues that can arise in relation to domain name disputes can be extremely complicated and the parties may have a significant financial stake in the outcome.