Avec NamebayWatch, Namebay automatise l’analyse des noms de domaines afin de prévenir les tentatives de contrefaçon ou de détournement.

Monaco, le 03 juin 2008 - Namebay, gestionnaire de noms de domaines à forte valeur ajoutée, dévoile sa nouvelle gamme NamebayWatch, d’outils d’intelligence économique et d’aide à la protection de la propriété intellectuelle et industrielle. NamebayWatch apporte aux entreprises de toutes tailles une visibilité en temps réel sur l’activité de création, d’expiration ou de modifications des noms de domaines, afin de prévenir les tentatives de contrefaçon ou de détournement de la notoriété ou d’y réagir.

Une combinaison unique de technologies

NamebayWatch combine de façon unique les principaux outils techniques de datamining, gestion des DNS et indexation des sites Web. Résultat de plus de 2 ans de R&D, NamebayWatch relie ces informations entre elles pour proposer une solution complète et automatisée de recherche d’antériorité et d’analyse du cyber squatting. NamebayWatch permet notamment aux entreprises d’être informées en temps quasi réel des tentatives de détournement de trafic fondées sur des constructions syntaxiques approchantes ou des différences typographiques, par exemple namebai pour Namebay. La gamme Namebaywatch convient à toute forme de complexité de recherche :
- sur un nom propre ou commun, et ses variantes
- sur une expression contenant ou non un nom propre ou commun avec des qualificatifs quels que soient leur position
- sur un fragment de phrase

Un outil de productivité

La plateforme NamebayWatch permet aussi de réaliser rapidement les enquêtes approfondies indispensables avant la création d’un nouveau nom de domaine à forte valeur commerciale ou pour récolter les informations utiles à une action juridique contre un tiers. La solution répond ainsi aussi bien aux besoins des services juridiques des entreprises qu’à ceux des cabinets de conseil spécialisés dans la protection des marques sur Internet. Véritable outil de productivité, Namebaywatch évite au chargé de l’enquête de collecter et de corréler à la main les informations du Whois, des DNS, du web, de diverses bases de données ainsi que les extensions ccTLDs.

Résultat d’une expertise avancée

Avec NamebayWatch, Namebay confirme sa vocation de gestionnaire de noms de domaine à forte valeur ajoutée. La solution s’appuie sur une expertise technique approfondie de l’interrogation et de l’analyse des données de noms de domaines à l’échelle mondiale. La base de données de la plateforme NamebayWatch analyse régulièrement plus de 120 millions d’enregistrements (plateforme SQL Server 2005 sur Windows 2008 installée sur un serveur Dell R900 quadri-processeurs à quatre coeurs). Registrar acrédité par l’Icann, Namebay s’affirme comme un partenaire technique au service de la performance et de la simplification de la gestion des noms de domaine. Ses solutions permettent aux entreprises d’augmenter leur autonomie et leur productivité dans la gestion de leurs noms de domaines et de protéger efficacement leurs marques contre les tentatives de contrefaçon (cybersquatting, phishing), de détournement de notoriété voire de concurrence.

auteur : Sophie Terrien

The AFNIC recently registered the first thirteen domain names under .wf, upon request from the French Government and Wallis & Futuna local Authorities.

Within the context of broadband now being available in Wallis & Futuna, this move aims at supporting the development of local Internet use.

This first group of domain names gives symbolically birth to .wf, while talks about the marketing of this ccTLD (country-code Top Level Domain) are about to start.

The AFNIC is also in charge of .pm (Saint-Pierre & Miquelon) and .yt (Mayotte) which registration policy is still to be discussed upon the local Internet communities and in accordance with the regulatory framework set by February the 6th, 2007 decree, issued by the French Government.

As a result, the AFNIC joined the Asia Pacific Top Level Domain Association (www.aptld.org).

source AFNIC

Le système d’enregistrement des ccTLDs sera en maintenance le 12 avril de 17h à 21h.

Durant cette maintenance, voici l’état des services :

Système d’enregistrement: non disponible
Interface d’administration web: non disponible
DNS: disponible ; les noms continueront à résoudre normalement.
Whois: non disponible

The ccTLD SRS is scheduled for maintenance on 12 April 2008 between 17:00 - 21:00 UTC.

During the maintenance, you may expect the following:

SRS: Not Available
Web Based Administrative Interface: Not Available
DNS: Available; names will continue to resolve normally.
Whois: Not Available
OT&E: Available

Le 27 février 2008, le registre Péruvien (NIC.PE) a signé un accord avec le Centre de Médiation et d’Arbitrage de l’OMPI pour mettre en place une charte de résolution des conflits de noms de domaine en “.pe”, dérivée de l’UDRP.

la PeDRP s’en distingue néanmoins sur un certain nombres de points:
sur le fond, le requérant doit démontrer que le nom de domaine est identique ou similaire au point de prêter à confusion avec une marque antérieure enregistrée ou en cours d’enregistrement, désignant le territoire du Pérou. Les exigences de la charte UDRP se limitent à l’existence d’une marque (pas de condition d’antériorité, d’enregistrement ou de territorialité du droit).

L’absence de droit ou d’intérêt légitime du titulaire du nom de domaine doit également être prouvée.

Enfin, il appartient au demandeur de démontrer que le nom de domaine litigieux a été enregistré ou est utilisé de mauvaise foi. Cette condition est cumulative dans la charte UDRP.

Le Pérou est le 51ème Etat à rejoindre le service de règlement des conflits de noms de domaine proposé par le Centre de Médiation de l’OMPI dans le cadre de son programme sur les “ccTlds” (noms de domaine nationaux) lancé en 2000.

D’autres Etats d’Amérique centrale et du sud y ont déjà adhéré (Mexique, Belize, Guatemala, Equateur, Venezuela, Colombie, Panama).

Plus d’info: Présentation de la PeDRP sur le site de l’OMPI

Auteur : Alexandre Nappey
Source VoxPI

.jp is the latest ccTLD to pass the magical one million mark, achieving the milestone last month. As of March 1 there were 1,003,285 domain names registered.

In the first three months of 2008 there was an increase of 14,399 registrations and 104,484 in the previous twelve months.

Of these domain names, around a third (316,829) are .co.jp names, half (480,890) are ASCII names and 142,013 are what Japan Registry Services call Japanese.

source DomainNews

Le système d’enregistrement des ccTLDs Afilias sera en maintenance le 29 mars 2008 de 15h à 19h.

Durant cette maintenance, voici l’état des services :

Système d’enregistrement: non disponible
Interface d’administration web: non disponible
DNS: Disponible; les noms continueront à résoudre normalement.
WHOIS: non disponible

The ccTLD SRS is scheduled for maintenance on 29 March 2008 between 15:00 - 19:00 UTC.

During the maintenance, you may expect the following:

SRS: Not Available
Web Based Administrative Interface: Not Available
DNS: Available; names will continue to resolve normally.
WHOIS: Not Available
OT&E: Not Available

The Barbados Government, through its Telecommunications Unit and with the agreement of Cable &Wireless (Barbados), will take over the administration of the .bb ccTLD from February 18 according to a public notice on the government’s Telecoms Unit website dated 10 January 2008.

The notice says ccTLDs are usually administered by or for respective governments. In the case of .bb, Cable & Wireless (C&W) assumed the administration of the .bb domain name from the University of Puerto Rico in 1996. Then in 2001 a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the Government of Barbados and C&W (Bartel) Ltd. and C&W (BET) Ltd. provided for C&W to continue to perform the role of administration of the .bb domain name until such date as determined by the Government.

With the liberalization of the telecommunication sector in Barbados, consideration had to be given to the continued administration of the domain name registration. The Inter-American Telecommunication Commission (CITEL) had advised that the management of domain names involves government entities, academic entities, NGOs and the private sector. Should Government take over this function, training of staff is essential.

There was an exchange of correspondence between the Telecommunications Unit and Cable & Wireless in relation to taking over the administration of the .bb domain name, including the training of staff. The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) in Switzerland was also approached re: training of staff in the various aspects of this area - legal, administration and technical, but was unable to assist.

The government says the intention is to operate a semi-restricted ccTLD and let the Corporate Affairs and Intellectual Property Office handle the legal issues, which are an integral part of domain name administration. The Inter American Telecommunications Commission (CITEL) had advised that it is the role of governments to provide a clear, coherent and predictable legal system. The main element of legal responsibility relates to duty of care and protection against issues such as defamation, infringement of copyright and/or trademarks, misappropriation of intellectual property and unjust enrichment. A semi-restricted system is where it is necessary to have a local representative with a formally-constituted presence (tax number, registered company etc.).

To read the public notice in full, see the Telecoms Unit website at telecoms.gov.bb

Source DomainNews

France is the latest of the ccTLDs to reach the one million .fr registrations. The milestone was reached on January 11.Given the population of France, it has taken a while to reach this mark compared to other ccTLDs. For example, .de will reach their twelve millionth domain registration this year, and even smaller countries such as Australia with around a third of the population and similarly restrictive/protective, depending on who you ask, registration rules, passed the mark late last year. Switzerland (.ch) also reached the one million mark in 2007. A large part of the success of .de registrations has been the less restrictive rules.

There were restrictions on who could register a .fr domain name. Up until 2004 only companies, associations and community groups could register a .fr domain name. Then on June 20, 2006, .fr was opened up to all physical people within France.

So today, according to Lo�c Damilaville, deputy to the DG at Afnic, there are around 2,000 registrations each day with around 70 per cent of these for companies and 30 per cent for private individuals.

But there must be other reasons, and one reason often given for the initial slow take-up of the internet in France compared to other European countries was the success of Minitel, a Videotex online service accessible through the telephone lines, and is considered one of the world’s most successful pre-World Wide Web online services according to Minitel’s Wikipedia entry.

But the main reason for the slow growth, is that France still keeps the name .fr extension restricted to French Companies and French citizens. The Registry and the French Government still have not realized the harm they generate to their Economy by this restriction.

How should international investment and businesses even consider setting up structures in France if they can not upfront register their company names and industry generic terms as domain names. How could an international company or e-commerce start creating a customer base in France before considering coming to France, as they can not register a .fr name that could become indexed in Google in order to address that market from outside France!

Not every e-commerce can afford to register worldwide trademarks and have a local addresses before considering whether the market is worth investing into. That’s why it is important to open up a country TLD. To attract businesses! But this seems too difficult to understand for some registries like France.

Even though most registries have opened up their restricted rules over the last years it is strange that still a few registries (France, Norway, Finland, Island,.) can survive with their anti-european approach in today’s marketplace. Maybe somebody should point out this situation to their new President, Mr. Sarkozy, who seems to like to bring some changes to the country.

Once this change would be done done, then the number of registration will jump to 5 Million within two years.

This big News of one million domain is more a News that points out France domain registration problematic than a big achievement.

Source DomainNews