Domain Names: Strategies and Legal Aspects

With domain names now a crucial business asset, this highly practical new guide pinpoints the key legal issues involved in their registration, exploitation and protection worldwide. Covering legal concepts, registration and commercial strategies, and dispute resolution options, it shows companies how best to protect their business interests and operate successfully within the global and domestic legal structures that govern domain names.

• Explains the online infrastructure of domain names, including protocol, DNS, gTLDs and ccTLDs
• Goes through the international legal system of domain registries
• Analyses the legal definition of a domain name
• Discusses the similarities and differences between trademarks and domain names
• Considers the other intersections between domain name law and IP law
• Advises on top level domain selection, SEO, which registries to use, and how to negotiate with existing domain name holders
• Shows how to monitor domain names against infringement
• Advises on how to respond to an infringement
• Examines the dispute resolution options available in different countries
• Looks at the different types of dispute that can arise
• Explains the issues surrounding domain transfers
• Covers domain names and tax
• Refers to key case law across multiple jurisdictions including the EU and US