Proposal would establish a system to alert geographic mark owners and help them recover the domains. The European Union is considering creating a new cybersquatting system for country code domains managed in the Union. The proposed regulation ... Continue Reading1 Comment
ICANN to EU: Hey, you passed GDPR
· Policy & LawICANN notes that GDPR makes it harder to snuff out DNS abuse. ICANN has sent tardy commentary to the Call for Evidence launched by the European Commission (EC) on the European Union's (EU) Toolbox Against Counterfeiting (wow, that's a ... Continue Reading1 Comment
EU Directive on domain owner data could create headaches for domain companies
· Policy & LawIt doesn't seem to "ban anonymous websites" but could create headaches for the domain industry. The European Union is working on a Directive around cyber security that could impact domain names and Whois. But like the EU's General Data Protection ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Year in Review: GDPR
· Policy & LawGDPR walloped the domain industry in 2018. [Editor's note: this is the first in a series of articles covering the top stories of 2018. Many of the top posts this year are related, so I combined them into the top themes of the year.] The top ... Continue Reading5 Comments