Elaboration of Countractual Factors of Disputs Arising out of Domain Name
Subject Areas : Journal of Law and Politics
Parviz
Savrai
1
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Fatemeh
Pourmasjedian
2
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Keywords: Internet world wide network, Domain name, Trade mark, Trade name, Registered contract, Intellectual Property Rights, Disputes arising from domain n, World Intellectual Property Or,
Abstract :
The different names of internet’s domain are easy obtainable shapes of internet ddresses and usually will be used to find the web sites. The Domain Name System (DNS) is an international address system and is a unique guidance to locate addresses in the virtual world. In today’s world, which tendency is to eliminate or limit traditional communication methods, responding to legal issues related to domain names, for example disputes related to registration or usage with bad faith of domain names similar or equal to other’s trademarks, is inevitable. The main question is, what are the limits of relevant legal laws, in our existed rules and regulations for domain registration contract or transfer of it? In this regarded s of course the regulations of transnational, and following intern network, and finally the legal centre of domain name should be considered. On the top of the issues of related applicable rules, if there are needs to govern new rules then, what are the structure of those rules could be? This thesis is trying to focus on domain name subjects and answer to related questions which are due to lake of relevant laws and procedural rules are faced with ambiguities the results of this research about legal nature of the domain name approved that the domain name actually is on of the types of intellectual properties considering the following notes: - The function of domain name is purely used in cyberspace. - The main goal of users in first step is to have access to their desired information networks in order to receive political social, cultural, economical, commercial, and trade information for their different purposes. - The judgement from judicial authority could be enforced for registration of domain name or cancellation and transfer of it, subject to not exported out conflict judgment from international arbitration centres. - The owner of domain name, subject to observe rules and regulation, should be supported by laws.
