New document: 5 minutes to understand the SYRELI procedure

5 minutes to understand - Domain names - SYRELI procedure - Nameshield

Placed under the aegis of AFNIC (French Association for Internet Naming in Cooperation), the SYRELI procedure allows to sanction obvious and indisputable infringements of a trademarks right resulting from the registration by third parties of identical or similar domain names.

Find in this “5 minutes to understand” document, available for download on Nameshield’s website, in which cases the SYRELI procedure applies and what are the rules and conditions to respect.

New document: 5 minutes to understand UDRP procedure

5 minutes to understand - Domain names - UDRP procedure - Nameshield

Established on ICANN’s proposal, the UDRP (Uniform Domain-Name Dispute Resolution Policy) extra-judicial procedure allows to sanction obvious and indisputable infringements of a trademark right resulting from the registration of identical or similar domain names by third parties, a practice commonly referred as “cybersquatting “.


UDRP applies not only to generic extensions (gTLDs) in .aero, .biz, .com, .coop, .info, .jobs, .mobi, .museum, .name, .net, .org, .pro, .travel and new extensions (new gTLDs), but also to country code extensions (ccTLDs) of which the registry has accepted the UDRP principles.

New document : 5 minutes to understand SSL / TLS certificates

5 minutes to understand - SSL/TLS certificates - Nameshield

An SSL (Secure Socket Layer) or TLS (Transport Layer Security) certificate is a digital certificate that authenticates a server (most often a web server) and encrypts the data exchanged with it. The data is thus exchanged in confidence between two actors whose identity is known. The data exchanged cannot be spied on or altered by a third party: confidentiality and integrity.

Download this document “5 minutes to understand: SSL / TLS certificates” on Nameshield’s website.