David Taylor

Firm/Organization: Hogan Lovells

Blogs: Global Media and Communications Watch, LimeGreenIP News

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.CLUB launches brand protection service

By David Taylor & Laetitia Arrault on June 10, 2019

.CLUB Domains, the Registry operating the .CLUB new generic Top Level Domain (gTLD), has recently launched a new service that enables qualified trade mark holders to block .CLUB domain name registrations containing their trade marks. According to the .CLUB Domains’ press release, the Trademark Sentry Unlimited Name Blocking Service (UNBS) “protects a trademark from appearing in any portion of a domain with the popular .CLUB extension – literally covering trillions of permutations of a…

Global Media and Communications Watch

Analyzing the impact of the EU GDPR on access to WHOIS data, one year on

By David Taylor on June 6, 2019

During the Annual INTA 2019 Meeting, a panel was held on the EU General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR) and the temporary removal of data for the WHOIS directory. IPMT Partner David Taylor spoke on the following GDPR issues and their impact on global brand protection. When the GDPR came into force back in 2018, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) implemented a temporary policy which resulted in a majority of global registrant…

LimeGreenIP News

Analyzing the impact of the EU GDPR on access to WHOIS data, one year on

By David Taylor on June 6, 2019

LimeGreenIP News

.CLUB launches brand protection service

By David Taylor & Laetitia Arrault on June 5, 2019

Global Media and Communications Watch

The European Union adopts a new .EU Regulation

By David Taylor on May 1, 2019

On 19 March 2019, the European Union adopted Regulation (eu) 2019/517 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 March 2019 on the implementation and functioning of the .eu top-level domain name and amending and repealing Regulation (EC) No 733/2002 and repealing Commission Regulation (EC) No 874/2004, otherwise known as the .eu Regulation. Background As its name indicates, the Regulation repeals its predecessors which were considered no longer adapted to the market, the…

LimeGreenIP News

The European Union adopts a new .EU Regulation

By David Taylor & Aissatou Sylla on April 26, 2019

Global Media and Communications Watch

.UK right of registration – have you secured your .UK domain?

By David Taylor on April 5, 2019

Nominet, the Registry responsible for operating the .UK country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) for the United Kingdom, launched the registration of domain names directly under the .UK top level domain name extension back in June 2014. Eligible registrants were given five years to secure their .UK domain names. They only have a couple of months left as the reservation period is soon coming to an end. Before June 2014, domain name registrations were only…

LimeGreenIP News

.UK right of registration – have you secured your .UK domain?

By David Taylor & Laetitia Arrault on April 4, 2019

LimeGreenIP News

Steady growth for domain names in 2018

By David Taylor & Cindy Mikul on February 5, 2019

At the end of 2018, Verisign, the authoritative Registry for all .COM, .NET, .NAME, .CC, .TV, .EDU, .GOV and .JOBS domain names, published its third quarter report for 2018. According to the report, at the end of September there were approximately 342.4 million domain name registrations across all Top Level Domains (TLDs), which represented an increase of approximately 11.7 million, or 3.5%, year over year. For the same period, the number of country code Top…

LimeGreenIP News

Is Brexit spurring a .EU domain exit?

By David Taylor & Tony Vitali on December 21, 2018

EURid, the Registry responsible for running the .EU namespace, has recently released its Quarter 3, 2018 Progress Report, covering the .EU and .ЕЮ extensions and this revealed a drop in the overall number of registrations. The report highlighted that there were 173,187 new domain name registrations made in Q3 2018, as well as noting that the average domain name renewal rate was at 74%; an 8% decrease since Quarter 3, 2018. EURid also noted that…

David Taylor

.CLUB launches brand protection service

Analyzing the impact of the EU GDPR on access to WHOIS data, one year on

Analyzing the impact of the EU GDPR on access to WHOIS data, one year on

.CLUB launches brand protection service

The European Union adopts a new .EU Regulation

The European Union adopts a new .EU Regulation

.UK right of registration – have you secured your .UK domain?

.UK right of registration – have you secured your .UK domain?

Steady growth for domain names in 2018

Is Brexit spurring a .EU domain exit?

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