How better access to registration data helps to protect intellectual property
Whether it is cybersquatting, domain grabbing, or unauthorized and abusive use: domain names are quite often the starting point for a wide variety of cybercriminal attack vectors. For years, WHOIS data has provided a clue to the registrant of an infringing domain. With the introduction of the GDPR, and the accompanying redactions of WHOIS data, IP owners and service providers lost an important tool for fighting brand abuse on the web.
Since then, this data can only be accessed, if at all, through costly and lengthy dispute procedures. Five years later, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) finally is about to establish a new system to provide access to non-public registration data: the Registration Data Request Service (RDRS). We shed light on what the development means for both brand owners and brand protection specialists.
Neli Marcheva
Speaker of the webinar
Neli Marcheva is Senior Product Manager of LEMARIT’s Registry Services. She joined the team in 2018 and has more than 12 years of experience in IT Business Development. For the last 10 years she has worked in the domain name industry where she served in operational and technical management positions for multiple new gTLDs registries.
Neli possess extensive knowledge of the management and operation of TLDs, has built up a wide-reaching network and is active member in various ICANN working groups.
Neli
Marcheva
Senior Project LeaderRegistry Services
After the webinar you know, …
why the domain registration data is not public anymore.
how brand owners can use the domain registration data.
what you can do already today to find out who is operating infringing domains.
how you will get access to domain registration data in future.
