domains Changing Markets for Domain Names

[Lox]

Changing Markets for Domain Names: Technical, Economic, and Policy Challenges
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The Domain Name System (DNS) is critical infrastructure for the Internet. The growth in size and complexity of the DNS, together with changes in its governance and operational practices, have raised numerous challenges. Herein, we provide a qualitative and empirical overview of DNS ecosystem economics and the relationships among key participants, including ICANN, the registries, registrars, and registrants.

With this as background, the paper examines three key issues:
(1) market power;
(2) trends impacting the importance of domain names; and
(3) concerns over DNS abuse and security.

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Forbes article:

MIT Researchers Estimate The Value Of Domain Name System (DNS) At $8 Billion

Since 1985, the Domain Name System (DNS) has played a critical but underappreciated role to map names to internet addresses. Domain names have important value as intellectual property and marketing assets in addition to their ability to “route the money of the Internet.” The market value of global DNS ecosystem is roughly $8 billion annually, with additional value for domain names.

... In the last 10 years, the number of generic Top Level Domains (TLDs) has expanded significantly from a handful of suffixes .com for commercial, .org for organization, .edu for education, .gov for US government, and .mil for US military to nearly 1200, which, including country code TLDs (.EU etc) numbers about 1500. This evolution has given firms more flexibility beyond .com to register their online business addresses and may even offer additional marketing value with suffixes like .baby, .cafe, and so on.

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[platey]

trademarks may well stop the internet at some point because if domain names infringe trademarks certain domain names and the ideas and visions behind them wont be allowed to be bought due trademarks which will mean either trademarks will be ignored or domain names will soar in value beyond all comprehension

all good fun

 

[Lox]

trademarks may well stop the internet at some point because if domain names infringe trademarks certain domain names and the ideas and visions behind them wont be allowed to be bought due trademarks which will mean either trademarks will be ignored or domain names will soar in value beyond all comprehension

all good fun

Currently, in short, domain names are not protected as such by an IP right.
But, the brand name that makes up the domain name may itself be protected by TM right, Copyright, Trade / Corp. name or Geo name or surname.

Regards

 

[platey]

Currently, in short, domain names are not protected as such by an IP right.
But, the brand name that makes up the domain name may itself be protected by TM right, Copyright, Trade / Corp. name or Geo name or surname.

Regards

so basically

domain names need to have ip rights for the exact extension of the domain name

or

any trademark granted should be attached to the domain names owned by that company or individual and only those domain names if subsequently go on to purchased by someone else would breach that trademark but not any domain names the company or individual chose not to buy etc?