The European Court of Justice established broad new criteria for
rejecting abusive .EU domain name registrations, according to a report
in the Courthouse News Service.
The case centred around the Austrian company Internetportal und
Marketing GmbH that, according to the report, “abused the system for
registering .EU domain names by exploiting a clause on special
characters.”
The company registered “33 generic trademarks in Sweden, all with the
‘&’ symbol between each letter” to take advantage of European law
that “allows for use of registered marks without special symbols on the
Web.”
This allowed the company to register a range of domain names prior to
the general registration phase and the company subsequently registered
180 generic domain names.
Internetportal’s use of the domains was challenged in the Austrian
courts who revoked Internetportal’s claim to certain trademarks.
To read more on the case from the Courthouse News Service, see:
www.courthousenews.com/2010/06/04/27842.htm
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