The Global Village is Set to Expand
On 26 June 2008, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”), an international, non profit, private-public partnership responsible for the administration of the internet, accepted a recommendation to expand the current generic Top Level Domain (TLD) names.
Currently, there are limited numbers of TLDs available wherein businesses or individuals can register domain names. The most common current TLDs include .com, .net, .org etc. Since the original seven domain “dots” were established, ICANN has expanded the number of TLDs rarely and only by a handful each time.

Read more... | 23/07/2008 | Posted in: Intellectual Property, IT Law

The dawn of a new era: Sunrise period for Dot Asia top-level domain names
The Pan-Asiatic and Asian Pacific community has set out to build a stage of their own in what has fast become the economic, social and political theatre of the human race.

Read more... | 18/09/2007 | Posted in: Intellectual Property, IT Law

Cyber squatters: 0 Brand owners: 1
The very first case in which a cyber squatter was ordered to transfer a .co.za domain name to a South African brand owner has just been handed down. The complainant was Telkom SA Limited. The domain name was registered on 4 September 2006, shortly after the announcement by Telkom Media (Pty) Limited, a subsidiary of Telkom SA Limited that it intended to apply for a satellite television subscription broadcasting licence from the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa. This announcement received wide media attention at the time.

Read more... | 11/09/2007 | Posted in: Intellectual Property, IT Law

Advanced ADR Workshop (3 - 4 September 2007)
Advanced ADR workshop to be presented by speakers from Nominet UK and WIPO over 2 days in Sandton, Johannesburg.

Read more... | 3/09/2007 | Posted in: Intellectual Property, IT Law

Complaints in the .co.za name space - no April fools day joke
Cybersquatting as such, is not uncommon in South Africa. However, until very recently, anybody who wanted to object to a domain name in the .co.za name space, had no option but to institute proceedings in the High Court.

Read more... | 1/06/2007 | Posted in: Intellectual Property, IT Law

Domain names
In terms of the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act, Act no. 25 of 2002, the Minister of Communications promulgated Alternative Dispute Resolution regulations in November 2006. The regulations, which have now come into force, relate only to domain names registered in the second level country code domain, .co.za.

Read more... | 30/04/2007 | Posted in: Intellectual Property, IT Law

.Asia Domains
The .asia domain was proposed to ICANN to represent the unified Asian market, much like .eu has done for the European Union.

Read more... | 1/03/2007 | Posted in: Intellectual Property, IT Law

The e-commerce challenge to franchising
E-commerce offers significant advantages which may contribute significantly to a franchise business. These include a wider audience, improved logistics, reduced costs, improved efficiency, new sales and global branding.

Read more... | 30/12/2002 | Posted in: Intellectual Property, IT Law

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