Author: Aurélie Tran

Marketing service - Nameshield

Nameshield will be present at the Brand Protection Congress – On October the 19th and 20th, 2022 in Nice

Nameshield will be present at the Brand Protection Congress

The global outbreak of COVID-19 has given cybercriminals the opportunity to take advantage of the situation to sell counterfeit products. Protecting the organization’s intellectual property and consumers’ trust is now more important than ever.

The Brand Protection Congress is a high-class brand protection event which aims to allow brand owners to discuss the industry challenges they are facing and their potential solutions.

This 7th edition will take place in Nice, at the Hotel Le Negresco, on October the 19th and 20th. The topics range from the various online anti-counterfeiting tools, the latest technological developments, the liability of intermediaries, and the various methods that brands have adopted to protect their rights.

Meet us at the event, booth n°8.

With nearly 30 years of experience in online brands protection, Nameshield assists brands in order to protect, monitor and defend their digital territories.

Nameshield has developed effective and relevant tools, associated with an expert consulting offer allowing brands to preserve their integrity and assert their rights.

Meet our experts and discover our full range of monitoring and services:

  • Domain names monitoring (new registrations / content / whois etc.)
  • Web and social networks monitoring
  • Trademark and domain names portfolio audit
  • Remediation solutions, recovery procedures and acquisition by our in-house legal department.

For more information and to register, please visit the event’s website: https://worldbigroup.com/7th-Brand-Protection/

[New gTLD] Launch of .KIDS

[New gTLD] Launch of .KIDS

Managed by DotKids Foundation, a non-profit organization, the new extension .KIDS will be launched on August, the 11th in Sunrise period.

Dedicated to children, parents, educators, communities and groups related to child protection, .KIDS is an extension dedicated to all subjects related to children.

The mission of DotKids is:

• to create a dedicated Internet space for kids, supporting and advocating for a better cyberspace favorable to the positive development of kids;

• to serve as a source of support to children’s rights and welfare initiatives, especially related to the Internet.

.KIDS Launch Schedule

The launch of .KIDS will proceed according to the following schedule:

  • TMCH Sunrise period: from 11/08/2022 to 14/09/2022

Reserved for holders of trademarks registered in the TMCH.

  • Community Sunrise period: from 20/09/2022 to 19/10/2022

Reserved for non-profit organizations, institutions or charities whose main mission is to advocate for children’s rights, children’s well-being, education or child-welfare.

  • Pioneer Domains period: from 19/10/2022 to 29/11/2022

Reserved for the participants of the .KIDS Pioneer Program, which aims to encourage active and positive use and the development of relevant content for .KIDS domain names. The program is designed to identify qualified applicants with the best potential and capabilities to maximize the development of a domain name in children’s best interest.

  • General availability: from 29/11/2022

Protection Policy

The registry has implemented protective Guiding Principles that require .KIDS domain name holders to not post any illegal or inappropriate content, to protect the privacy and confidentiality of the personal data of children who visit their website.

For more information on the conditions for registration of your .KIDS, please contact your Nameshield consultant.

Image source: https://www.nic.kids/

New document : 5 minutes to understand monitoring solutions

5 minutes to understand - Domain names - Monitoring solutions - Nameshield

A domain name is not static, it evolves. It can be inactive, associated to a website, to a messaging service. The website can be operated, deactivated or its content can change. So many constant modifications that require a particular follow-up in the form of monitoring of domain names that may infringe your brand.

Find in this “5 minutes to understand” document, available for download on the Nameshield’s website, the different monitoring solutions that provide you with information to protect your domain names and brands from possible infringements.

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New document : 5 minutes to understand DNS cache poisoning

5 minutes to understand - Domain names - DNS cache poisoning - Nameshield

The DNS (Domain Name System) is a key service of the Internet. It is a giant, hierarchical and distributed directory that associates IP addresses with domain names that are easier to identify, remember and transmit. It is the cornerstone of the Internet, whose infrastructure has flaws by its very conception, making it an ideal target for attacks.

On one hand, the DNS service is based on the authoritative DNS, which holds the information, and on the other hand, the resolver DNS, which carries out the resolution for the web users.
The DNS cache poisoning attack targets resolver DNS.

Find in this “5 minutes to understand” document, available for download on the Nameshield’s website, what is this DNS cache poisoning attack and how to protect against it.

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New document : 5 minutes to understand domain names extensions (TLD)

5 minutes to understand - Domain names extensions (TLD) - Nameshield

The “Top Level Domains” also called TLD or extensions, are defined by the IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) which depends on ICANN since 1998.

ICANN and IANA are in charge of allocating Internet protocol (IP) addresses space, assigning protocol identifiers and managing the top level domain names system, i.e. the “Top Level Domains”.

Find out in this “5 minutes to understand” document, available for download on the Nameshield’s website, the different types of top level domains.

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New document : 5 minutes to understand who manages the Internet

5 minutes to understand - Domain names - Who manages the Internet - Nameshield

There is a multitude of players involved in the management of the network of networks !
Its management is the responsibility of a decentralized and international multiparty network of independent groups from civil society, private sector, governments, academic and scientific communities, and national and international organizations.

Find out in this “5 minutes to understand document”, available for download on the Nameshield’s website, who manages the Internet, what are the roles of ICANN, registries and registrars.

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New document : 5 minutes to understand the DNS resolution of domain names

5 minutes to understand - DNS resolution of domain names - Nameshield

Human beings have a very bad memory for number sequences. However, computers and servers communicate with each other by identifying themselves through an IP address, which is a sequence of numbers or a mix of numbers that is very complex to memorize and differentiate.

To help people communicate over networks, the Domain Names System (DNS) was invented. This service is a giant Internet directory, hierarchical and distributed worldwide, which associates domain names with IP addresses.

When a web user enters a domain name in his browser, it queries a DNS server which will look for the answer to this humanly understandable address, most often an IP address, leading to the right website, computer or network. This query process is called “DNS resolution“.

Find in this “5 minutes to understand” document, available for download on the Nameshield’s website, how the DNS resolution works.

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New document : 5 minutes to understand the URS procedure

5 minutes to understand - Domain names - Nameshield

The URS (Uniform Rapid Suspension System) procedure is the latest domain name dispute resolution procedure implemented by ICANN for new extensions.

This procedure allows to sanction obvious and indisputable infringements of a trademark right resulting from the registration by third parties of identical or similar domain names regarding the new extensions.

Find in this “5 minutes to understand” document in which cases the URS procedure applies and what are the rules and conditions to respect.

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New document available on the Nameshield’s website: “5 minutes to understand – Abusive domain names registrations

5 minutes to understand - Domain names - Nameshield

The digital world is in perpetual evolution and every days, new domain names are registered around the world.

Among these new registrations, some can potentially affect your notoriety, your activity, and your results. Fraudsters, through these abusive domain names registrations, seek to benefit from your notoriety as quickly as possible.

Find in this “5 minutes to understand” document, available for download on the Nameshield’s website, the different practices of abusive domain names registrations that can affect your brand and the actions to take depending on the infringement caused to the brand.

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New document available on the Nameshield’s website: “5 minutes to understand – Data theft of a website

5 minutes to understand - Domain names - Cybersecurity - Data theft - Nameshield

Every day, new cyberattacks are threatening companies’ defense systems, and further weaken relations with web users, particularly on e-commerce websites. Identity theft and data theft have become common.

The risks of a malicious person intercepting the data transmitted by the web user on your website and more generally all the information transmitted between the browser and the server of your website ,are increasing significantly.

Find in this “5 minutes to understand” document, available for download on the Nameshield’s website, the solution to implement against these risks.

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