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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459537303321

Autore

Komaitis Konstantinos.

Titolo

The current state of domain name regulation : domain names as second-class citizens in a mark-dominated world / / Konstantinos Komaitis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-136-95638-7

1-282-73298-6

9786612732980

0-203-84958-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (293 p.)

Collana

Routledge Research in Information Technology and E-Commerce Law

Disciplina

346.04/8

Soggetti

Internet domain names - Law and legislation

Trademarks - Law and legislation

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Table of legislation; Table of cases; Preface; Selected acronyms; 1 Introduction: Taking on the sins of ICANN and the UDRP; Part I: Intellectual problem; 2 Contextualising property; 3 Introducing trademarks; 4 Domain names: Their technological, socio-economic and legal status; Part II: Institutional problem; 5 History of domain name institutionalisation; 6 'Lex domainia': The new lex mercatoria?; 7 The UDRP and arbitration; 8 Issues of procedural unfairness; 9 Free speech in the context of the UDRP

10 Regulating domain names nationally: The case of the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act11 Applying the UDRP and ACPA in the right context; Part III: Ethical problem; 12 'Haves' and 'have nots'; Part IV: Themes and issues; 13 Forwards and backwards ...; 14 Repeating the same mistakes: New gTLDs and the IRT recommendation report; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this book Konstantinos Komaitis identifies a tripartite problem - intellectual, institutional and ethical - inherent in the domain name



regulation culture. Using the theory of property, Komaitis discusses domain names as sui generis 'e-property' rights and analyses the experience of the past ten years, through the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) and the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA). The institutional deficit he identifies, generates a further discussion on the ethical dimensions in the regulation of domain names and prompts Komaitis to suggest th