Gandi Corporate Services Newsletter
June 2022
Every quarter, we offer you our roundup of advice and best practices as well as the latest market news to help guide you in protecting your brands online. Happy reading!
DOMAIN NAME MANAGEMENT ESSENTIALS
Two monitoring services for protecting your brand online
Between 2018 and 2021, the number of cybersquatting cases has increased markedly. In this increasingly hostile context, defining a global online brand protection strategy is a significant challenge for businesses to ensure they maintain control over their online presence. To help guide you in defending your intellectual property, Gandi Corporate Services offers two complimentary monitoring services.
Learn more about these services
Trademark Clearinghouse deactivates its TRex blocking product
TMCH announced the deactivation of its TRex blocking product. Current subscribers to this service will keep their protection on the 43 impacted TLDs up until the next expiration date of their TRex service. We review the reasons behind this decision as well as which blocking products are still available.
Learn more about the end of the TRex service
CUSTOMER TESTIMONIALS: YOUR TURN TO SPEAK
Gandi Corporate Services review: Usborne Publishing
Since December 2020, Gandi Corporate Services has had the honor of assisting publishing house Usborne Publishing in implementing their brand protection strategy online. Read their full review.
Read Usborne’s review of Gandi
GANDI CORPORATE SERVICES MARKET WATCH
What is ICANN’s priority?
Concentrating resources on the launch of the next series of new TLDs or advance progressively towards a new version of the Whois that’s compatible with GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation)? That’s the question that will be at the heart of debates at ICANN74, the nexts ICANN conference which will take place June 13–16, 2022. The direction set could mean new challenges for brand protection.
NFT and intellectual propertiy: what impact will there be for brands?
While brands like Hermes and Nike have already expressed their concern about the violation of intellectual property following the advent of NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens), a whirlwind of panic has been kicked up among brand owners caught between the necessity of adapting brand protection strategies and the hope for clear, judicial guidelines. This piece from IP firm Novagraaf sheds light on these new issues related to NFTs and the Metaverse.
Learn more about new threats related to NFTs
TLD CALENDAR
| Recent TLD releases | Upcoming TLD releases |
| Since February 1, 2022: General availability for .day Since May 3, 2022: General availability for .bh |
From March 24 through September 20, 2022: Priority registration for .au Until June 30, 2022: Priority registration phase of .tz |
PAST AND UPCOMING EVENTS
| Past events | Upcoming events |
| March 19–25, 2022: 113th Meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force March 22–24, 2022: CloudFest April 30–May 4, 2022: INTA’s 2022 Annual Meeting |
June 7–9, 2022: International Cybersecurity Forum June 13–16, 2022: ICANN74 Policy Forum June 15–18, 2022: ECTA 40th annual conference June 26–July 1, 2022: 34th Annual FIRST Conference (Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams) |
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