Allen & Overy Belgium advised EURid to manage the registration of “.eu” domain names. After having assisted EURid in the drafting of the regulatory framework (registrar agreements, .eu terms and conditions, Sunrise Rules etc), we are representing EURid in all conflicts resulting from the successful launch of the .eu TLD.
Geert Glas, Thierry van Innis and the Belgian IP team advised EURid. After having assisted EURid in the drafting of the regulatory framework (registrar agreements, .eu terms and conditions, Sunrise Rules etc), we are representing EURid in all conflicts resulting from the successful launch of the .eu top level domain (2,5 million domain names granted).
Allen & Overy assisted EURid in more than 400 ADR proceedings and is representing EURid in more than 10 court proceedings.
To avoid the phenomenon of cybersquatting that plagued the early stages of other TLDs such as .com and .net, the .eu TLD was introduced in several phases (the so-called Sunrise Period) in which the holders of prior rights (such as trademarks) were entitled to register their .eu domain names before the .eu TLD was opened to the general public ( the so-called landrush).
This multi-stage process and the ADR proceedings available to contest the granting of a domain name has been successful as illustrated by the fact that a similar approach is now adopted by the Registries of new top level domains.
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