The Freename Forum

... questions that will be addressed at the eco event. The EU Directive NIS2 on “cybersecurity” was supposed to be transposed into German law by October 18, 2024, but this did not happen. The German government also failed to get the law passed during the current legislative period. Nevertheless, ...

... of Anguilla on their radar. Playboy Enterprises International Inc. believes its trademark rights have been infringed by the domain playboy.ai. In October 2024, it asked the Chinese domain holder via a broker whether the domain was for sale. The broker did not respond to this request. Playboy therefore ...

... appointed as the EBERO manager. To justify the termination, ICANN refers to the registry's failure to comply with a confidential term sheet dated October 25, 2025. The future of .nowruz is currently still open. “ICANN will conduct an assessment and make its determination regarding whether or not ...

... sustainability of the Russian Internet is carried out annually in accordance with Decree No. 1316 of the Government of the Russian Federation of October 12, 2019. Roskomnadzor warned of possible restrictions on the work of a number of foreign hosting providers in Russia in the future. Specifically ...

UK-based Lipsy Ltd. is parting ways with its .lipsy brand extension. In a letter dated 23 October 2024, Lipsy terminated the registry agreement with the Internet registry ICANN. As is usual with .brands, the cancellation is based on Section 4.4 (b) of the registry agreement, ...

... commercial extension also lost domain registrations in November 2024, with the drop of around 175,000 domains being much more significant than in October with around 45,000 domains. Compared to the beginning of the year, .com has lost over three million domains, and unless there is a .com domain ...

... of numerous ‘TESLA’ brands, believes its rights have been infringed by the teslaunch.net domain. It initiated UDRP proceedings before The Forum in October 2024. Among other things, it claims to have used the ‘TESLA’ trademark continuously since 2003; registrations with the US Patent and Trademark ...

... ‘The Renewal Prediction Playbook’, for which a total of 292,410 domains with a renewal rate of 83 per cent were examined from November 2022 to October 2023 in order to identify key characteristics that predict whether a domain will be renewed or not. These include that older domains (ten years ...

... without cause. With the votes of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group, she is hoping for a new legal regulation before the general election. In October 2024, the then Federal Minister of Justice Marco Buschmann (FDP) pushed ahead with the ‘Draft Act on the Introduction of a Preservation Order ...

... and urinator.net and has initiated UDRP proceedings before WIPO. It claims to be the owner of the US trade mark ‘URINATOR’, registered in October 2013, for an ‘anti-genetic profile testing device’, a device for the temperature-controlled storage of artificial urine. The domains theurinators.com ...