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ICANNaclasm: the expansion of generic top-level domains

  • Wedlake Bell
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  • Global
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  • January 23 2012

Last June the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers announced that it would be changing its rules on generic top level domains (gTLDs) with effect from 2012 in order to allow any organisation (public or private) to apply to establish a gTLD registry for almost any word, with up to 1,000 new registrations per annum

Urgent need for businesses to safeguard against .xxx cybersquatters

  • Wedlake Bell
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  • Global
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  • October 25 2011

Businesses have just 3 days left to pre-empt cybersquatters from maliciously registering their brands as .xxx domain names, warned Wedlake Bell LLP, the City law firm, at their Intellectual Property seminar this week

M&A slow-down as talks called off

  • Wedlake Bell
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  • Global
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  • May 16 2011

Completed deals down 39 on the previous quarterResearch by Wedlake Bell, City law firm, shows that M&A activity has been shaken by recent events in Japan and the ongoing Euro crisis

It might be thought that the statutory prohibition of litigating against a company in administration (without permission of the court) has worldwide effect; but does it?

  • Wedlake Bell
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  • Global, United Kingdom
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  • October 15 2010

Administration is a procedure by which a company can be reorganised and its assets realised whilst being protected by a moratorium from actions brought by creditors (explained below

Domain name update: EU registrations and cybersquatting on the increase

  • Wedlake Bell
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  • Global
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  • December 10 2008

A record number of .eu domain names have been registered as the number of complaints filed with WIPO under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) has soared