Domain names

CASALONGA has significant experience in domain name litigation, both before the French courts as well as before different arbitration tribunals (WIPO, Czech arbitration tribunal for the .eu). Several of our attorneys concentrate primarily on managing very large trademark and domain name portfolios worldwide and have significant experience and knowledge in domain name filing strategies and procedures for recovering domain names. Our contentious and non-contentious experience provides us with a full vision of our client’s rights, which is crucial both for litigation as well as for IP audits and contractual negotiations.

Our attorneys have significant experience in domain name litigation, both before the courts and before different arbitration tribunals.

This experience, together with our contentious and non-contentious practice, an in-depth knowledge of the case law and a creative and pragmatic approach, allows us to counsel our clients as to the most efficient and effective means for recovering a domain name:

 arbitration before the WIPO, the Czech arbitration tribunal (.eu) or other arbitration bodies, or
 the competent court.

We negotiate the purchase of domain names on behalf of our clients. This type of procedure is often more certain and less expensive than an arbitration or infringement action.

We also offer services for administrative and technical transfer of domain names.

We offer a full range of domain name portfolio management services, from filing to registration:

 domain name clearance searches
 filing strategy
 reservation of domain names worldwide
 computerized management of reservations and renewals
 technical services: attribution of email addresses, links, etc

We offer availability searches that cover all types of extensions (gtld, cctld, etc.) We have excellent search tools at our disposition.

We offer our client’s domain name reservation strategies worldwide, based on the client’s trademark portfolio and its particular needs.

Our legal experience allows us to represent our clients before different arbitration tribunals in order to recover domain names that were illegally reserved by third parties.

Our highly qualified attorneys, privileged relationship with a well-developed network of foreign associates and up-to-date sophisticated information technology allow us to efficiently and successfully manage large domain name portfolios on a worldwide basis.

Our filing and other administrative fees are fixed and very competitive and our fee structure is adapted to our client’s needs.

We have extensive experience conducting domain name portfolio audits, which include an analysis of the domain name portfolio, a verification of the availability of the domain name throughout the world and an analysis of the use of the domain name if reserved by third parties.

Our experience with contentious and non-contentious trademark and domain name matters allows us to accurately analyse domain name portfolios.

We offer our clients sophisticated watching services for domain names and the use of trademarks on the Internet.

Our domain name watching reports are weekly or monthly, limited to gtld (.com, .net, .org), worldwide (all extensions) or regional. The results are saved on a database that it accessible at all times. The results are likewise presented by importance, based on the use of the domain name, its owner and, if accessible, the web site.

We also offer several sophisticated watching services concerning the use of marks on the principal search engines and auction sites:

 a yearly subscription to a continuous watch service,
 a punctual verification of the use of the mark.

We also handle declarations filed with auction site, verifying the use of key words on different search engines.

We assist our clients in drafting the obligatory legal mentions and selling conditions for their Internet sites.

We also handle, for our clients, the declarations to be filed with the CNIL for the gathering of personal information on client’s Internet sites.