全球域名系统知识产权保护措施最新发展研究

全球域名系统在2012年1月起全面开放通用顶级域名空间.届时,全新的商业机会和市场竞争将给全世界知识产权人带来新的机遇与挑战.为了保护知识产权人的合法权益、预防和制止顶级域名的恶意抢注行为,域名系统的全球管理机构ICANN在新增通用顶级域名的项目中制定和实施了一系列预防和解决纠纷的措施.ICANN的知识产权保护措施主要有关于新增通用顶级域名申请的异议程序、商标优先注册和通知服务、统一快速中止域名系统和新增通用顶级域名授权后争议解决政策四类.这些措施具有在域名系统全球应用的特点,提供了知识产权获得全球性保护的机会,同时也是域名系统直接介入知识产权法律领域的全新实验.

An Study on Intellectual Property Protection Measures in the new gTLD

Unrestrictive openness of generic top-level domain(gTLD) space since January 2012 offers new possibility for commercialization and market competition,as well as opportunity and challenge to intellectual property owners around the world.ICANN,the global administrative organization of domain name system,has crafted and is going to implement a series of measures with the purpose of protection of right and legitimate interests of intellectual property owners and prevention and settlement of cyber-squatting at top level domains.These measures primarily consist of objection procedure in new gTLD Objection Procedures,Sunrise Registration and Trademark Claim Service,Uniform Rapid Suspension System,and Post-Delegation Dispute Resolution Policy.These measures that is charactorized as global application in the domain name system could offer intellectual property owner the opportunity of global protection,while experimenting the domain name system’s direct intervention in the realm of intellectual property law.