Posts written by Sylvie Rouen

A very interesting article written in the Washington Post by Brian Krebs speaks about how the well known PC maker Dell has taken to court several Domain registrars, allegedly profiting from the exploitation of nearly 1,100 confusingly similar domain names to earn millions of dollars.The domain registrars BelgiumDomains, CapitolDomains, and DomainDoorman, as well as what Dell claims are nearly a dozen Caribbean shell companies, allegedly served as the entities registering the domains.

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The domain name milka.fr, previously owned by Mrs Milka Budimir a french dressmaker, is now going back to the trademark holder Kraft Foods, after 5 years of legal procedures. The french magistrates have confirmed this week a judgment delivered more than one year ago.

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The total number of active .eu domain names has now reached 1,351,559 since its opening on last friday!!! It is a real success as it is already in the top ten domain name extension (TLD). It is in Germany that the highest number of domain names has been registered in Europe with about 430 000 domain names.

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The Belarus dictator Alexandre Loukachenko has “officially” won the presidential elections last Sunday, with 83% of the votes. In February he had announced a law that forbids the Belarus inhabitants to use the Internet! Indeed, only the government agencies and the companies, as well as some privileged persons are going to be able to connect to the Internet via the Belarus “.by” domain name country extension (ccTLD).

With the manipulation of the single and public Telecom operator, the dictator has great chances to achieve his goal of muzzling the media and destroy the free speech of the Belarus people.

This is a sad example on how the Internet can be used as a politic tool to influence the free speech of a population.

After the blacklisting of the German BMW website last month by Google, which generated a lot of reactions in the Internet community, the famous search engine is again in the forefront of the News with this time KinderStart.com web site filing complaint against Google.

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Attacked for profiting from “click fraud” since April 2005 by several companies, Google has chosen to make a compromise last week. Following a note posted on the blog of Nicole Wong, Google Associate General Counsel, Google agreed to establish a $90 million fund to settle the lawsuit.

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FICORA, registry of the .fi domain names in Finland is announcing the opening of the extension (ccTLD) to the private person by the 1st of march 2006. The principle "first arrived, first served" will be applied.

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In 2004 the European Commission signed the contract with EurID (European Registry of Internet Domain Names; a consortium of Belgian, Italian and Swedish organizations) to set the .eu (abbreviation for European Union) mechanism in motion and permit registration of .eu domain names as soon as possible.

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The latest WIPO report underlines an increase in cybersquatting cases filed in 2005 compared to 2004. This cases have been treated via the UDRP filing procedure, which is one of the option for a trademark owner to recover an infringed domain name (read "how to recover an infringed domain name").

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The first sunrise period has been launched last week. You will find below the first figures about the most demanded domain names and which country has sent the most requests. As the the .com it was the sex.eu domain name that was the most demanded…

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