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Domain Name News: April 2025
28 April 2025
Having a global online strategy is essential. Cybersquatters are a significant threat to your online reputation, security, and revenue streams. Our internet domain name team has advised clients in this area for more than 25 years.
Domain name portfolios inevitably cover a multitude of countries. Your enforcement efforts must be global. At the cutting edge of internet-related branding issues, we helped to develop appropriate rights protection mechanisms within ICANN for the new gTLD program.
Together, we will make sure you have the right strategy and strike the right balance between defensive registrations, monitoring, and recuperation.
Filed and won first paperless Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) case before WIPO on behalf of a leading mobile phone manufacturer.
Advised Canyon Bicycle in the first ever UDRP case filed against a new gTLD.
Advising eBay on their global domain name enforcement and assisting them with the recuperation of domain names, notably via the filing of complaints.
Advising Merck & Co., Inc. (Kenilworth, New Jersey, USA) in a trademark, domain name, and social media dispute with Merck KGaA. over use of the name “Merck” in Europe and U.S.
Advising a major international company on the ICANN new gTLD application process and how it affects trademark owners.
Advising a China-based domain name registry in formulating its registration policies (English and Chinese) for a new gTLD.
Advising a major Chinese micro blogging company on new gTLD Legal Rights Objection process and assisting with preparation and filing of Legal Rights Objections with WIPO.
Representing Tencent in successfully recovering its much-publicized domain name "weixin.com" (WeChat in Mandarin) through domain name proceedings before HKIAC.