Category: Domain names

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 – Domain names: which procedure?

5 minutes to understand - Domain names - Procedure - Nameshield

Names’ holders must protect their brands and domain names against fraud and abuse just as they would protect any other valuable asset. The infringement of your domain name weakens the strength of your brand.

If, despite defensive registrations, which are a first line of defense, you find out that a third party has registered a disputed domain name, procedures exist to stop the infringement of your trademark and stop the damage.

Find in this “5 minutes to understand” document, available for download on the Nameshield’s website, these different dispute resolution procedures related to domain names.

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Opening of the sunrise phase of the .FORUM

Launch of the .FORUM - new gTLDs
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The .FORUM is an interesting new extension to exploit and secure.

Here is the launching schedule:

  • Sunrise Phase: November 16, 2020 – December 16, 2020
  • General Availability: March 02, 2021, on a first come, first served basis!

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

Launch of the new gTLD .CONTACT

Domain name - new gTLD - .CONTACT
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Launched by the Donuts registry, this .CONTACT extension is interesting, particularly for the contact pages of your websites.

This extension is also part of the TrueName program created by the Donuts registry: when registering a domain name in .CONTACT, Donuts will also protect the typographical alternatives of your brand by blocking them, thus preventing some phishing attempts through the registration by a third party of a typographically similar name (ex.: loulou.contact vs l0ulou.contact).

Reminder of the launch schedule

  • Sunrise [period reserved for trademark holders]: September 29, 2020 – November 28, 2020
  • Early Access Phase [open to all, prices are decreasing day by day]:

– Early Access Phase (EAP) Day 1: December 2/3

– Early Access Phase (EAP) Day 2: December 3/4

– Early Access Phase (EAP) Day 3: December 4/5

– Early Access Phase (EAP) Day 4: December 5/6

– Early Access Phase (EAP) Day 5-7: December 6/9

  • General Availability: from December 9, 2020

For any questions, your Nameshield consultant is at your disposal.

New document available on the Nameshield’s website: “5 minutes to understand – The lifespan of a domain name”

5 minutes to understand - Domain names - Nameshield

You are not, strictly speaking, the owner of a domain name, you simply have a right to use it, which translates into an annual fee that can be renewed indefinitely or terminated in case of infringement. As soon as you no longer pay the annual fee required to maintain it, and therefore its renewal, the domain name will expire and fall back into the public domain.

However, this deletion is not automatic, because the day after its expiry period, the domain name will go through 3 successive phases before falling back into the public domain.

Find in this “5 minutes to understand” document, available for download on the Nameshield’s website, the different phases in the life of a domain name.

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