Domain Name Law and Practice

Torsten Bettinger is an attorney at law with the patent attorneys and attorney-at-law chambers of Bettinger Schneider Schramm in Munich. His work focuses on the fields of industrial property law, e-commerce, software development and licence contract and copyright. Torsten Bettinger is a panelist with the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center in Geneva, and as a member of the WIPO-ASPIC Expert Group was involved in the drafting of the 'WIPO-ASPIC Dispute Avoidance and Resolution Best Practices and Guidelines for the Application Server Provider Industry'. He is also a member of the Legal Advisory Board to the Deutsche Network Information Centre (DENIC). He is the author of numerous publications on various issues in connection with the new medium of the internet, on data processing law and on copyright, and regularly lectures on these topics.

PART I: THE DOMAIN NAME SYSTEM AND THE PROCEDURES AND POLICIES FOR THE REGISTRATION OF DOMAIN NAMES; A. Structure and Organization of the Domain Name Systems; B. Registration Requirements and Dispute Resolution; C. Statistics; PART II: NATIONAL DOMAIN NAME SYSTEMS AND CONFLICTS WITH DOMESTIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS REGIMES; Australia; Austria; Belgium; Canada; China; Czech Republic; Denmark; Finland; France; Germany; Greece; Hong Kong; India; Ireland; Italy; Japan; Netherlands; Norway; Poland; Russian Federation; Singapore; Spain; Sweden; Switzerland; Turkey; United Kingdom; United States; PART III: ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION; A. Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP); B. Alternative Dispute Resolution for ".eu"; C. Other gTLD-specific Alternative Dispute Resolution Procedures; PART IV: THE PARIS CONVENTION/WIPO JOINT RECOMMENDATION CONCERNING PROVISIONS ON THE PROTECTION OF MARKS AND OTHER INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY RIGHTS IN SIGNS ON THE INTERNET; PART V: COUNTRY OVERVIEWS; Appendix I: Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy; Appendix II: Rules for Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy; Appendix III: WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center Supplemental Rules for Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy; Appendix IV: Joint Recommendation Concerning Provisions on the Protection of Marks and other Industrial Property Rights in Signs on the Internet; Appendix V: Regulation (EC) No 733/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 April 2002 on the Implementation of the .eu Top Level Domain; Appendix VI: Commission Regulation (EC) No 874/2004 of 28 April 2004 Laying Down Public Policy Rules Concerning the Implementation and Functions of the .eu Top Level Domain and the Principles Governing Registration