Domain Names

Domain name management is an essential part of safeguarding your brands in the digital age. As websites provide an increasingly important sales platform and channel for communication and engagement with customers, protecting your rights in domain names is crucial.

We provide advice on all aspects of domain name portforlio management in the wider context of brand, trade mark and website protection and enforcement.

Key areas of our expertise include:

Management and protection: we work with clients to produce cost effective domain name registration, portfolio management and monitoring strategies
Enforcement: we advise clients on all aspects of protecting and defending rights in domain names including complaints to regulatory bodies such as Nominet, WIPO and the Czech Arbitration Court (in respect of EU domains) as well as High Court litigation

Acquisition: drafting and negotiating domain name purchase agreements and assisting in transferring domains through escrow arrangements
Security: we advise clients on taking security over a third party's domain names in the context of corporate financing or affiliate marketing deals

Our recent experience includes:

Acting for various clients including a leading mobile phone network provider in bringing successful complaints against cybersquatters and other domain name owners to Nominet, WIPO and the Czech Arbitration Court to obtain the transfer of infringing domain names
Advising clients on High Court litigation concerning domain name related trade mark infringement and passing off
Advising clients on domain name management strategy
Acting for a leading comparison website in the acquisition of a valuable domain name
Acting for a well known travel website in taking security over domain names.

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