Topics: Domain Name Brand Protection

Since GDPR came into force the question of the future or Whois has been asked. In May the ICANN Board adopted 27 of the 29 recommendations from Phase 1 of the Expedited Policy Development Process for gTLD Registration Data (EPDP). What’s next?

During the first half of 2019 three reports on combatting harms and wrongdoing online were published.

Com Laude announces that Andrew Lothian has been appointed as a Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (UDRP) panelist in the Arbitration Centre for Internet Disputes of the Czech Arbitration Court (CAC).

.CLUB announces Trademark Sentry, a registry-specific blocking service that will allow the owner of a US-registered trade mark to block that mark appearing within any portion of a .CLUB domain name, thereby protecting, according to the registry, “trillions of permutations of a qualified trademark”.

Nick Wood, Executive Chairman & Co-Founder, reflects on Intellectual Property and Sport for World IP Day 2019.

More than 300 legal and brand professionals from 49 countries across five continents gathered March 28 and 29 to attend INTA’s 2019 March Conference in New York.  Ken Taylor, our Director of Business Development, summarises the main discussion points.

Com Laude Group is going to INTA Boston!
18th – 22nd May

Listen to our webinar and find out the highlights of the ICANN64 meeting in Kobe, Japan.

Uniregistry launches new blocking service

Uniregistry has announced the launch of its Extended Protection Service (Uni EPS and EPS+), a new domain name blocking mechanism for brand owners, which allows brand owners to block the registration of terms registered in the Trademark Clearinghouse under 23 of the Uniregistry extensions.

World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) have published a press release which describes how 2018 was a record breaking year for business submitting cybersquatting cases.