Domain Names: A Practical Guide [Paperback]

Jonathan Turner (Author), Simon Halberstam (Author), Andrew Charlesworth (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 2008 | ISBN-10: 1845923065 | ISBN-13: 978-1845923068 | Edition: 2

Domain names are significant corporate assets and with over 36 million domain names registered worldwide businesses need to protect these assets accordingly. This title provides a practical and user-friendly guide to the legal, best practice and procedural issues relating to domain names. It is clearly written, succinct and avoids using complicated legal jargon. Containing user-friendly sample documents, checklists and FAQs to ensure best practice, and guidance through ICANN and Nominet's dispute resolution procedures, this title brings together difficult to source information on an increasingly complex area.

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Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Tottel Publishing; 2 edition (December 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1845923065
• ISBN-13: 978-1845923068
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Thorough Domain Legal Review for Legal Types, May 10, 2003

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Keith Pieper (Davis, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Domain Names: A Practical Guide (Paperback)

This is the book to buy if you're looking for a thorough legal guide to domain names. Perhaps too thorough and legal-technical for the non-legal type; you won't find much technical or marketing help in this book.

Written by three attorneys in the United Kingdom, this 287-page book touches on all legal aspects of domain name registrations, trademark issues, sales and transactions and dispute resolution. Although provided with a heavily European flavor, the book will surely prove useful to anyone wanting to brush up on domain name legalese and case law throughout the world.

Applicable to any domain holder, the book does suggest registering your domain name as a trademark in as many classifications as possible in as many countries as possible, to avoid any future headaches. In addition, I was made aware of the "Madrid Agreement" whereby trademark applications are shared across 40 countries, simplifying the application process for any domain holder.

The book does attempt to address domain appraisal methods and secondary markets, however lackluster. The authors would have been better sticking to their business of legalese, as that is where this book shines.