.FR celebrates its 35th anniversary

.FR, the French top level domain operated by Afnic celebrates its 35th anniversary and continues its growth, which has allowed it to increase by 7% in 2020.

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Changes to the registration rules for the .fr TLD and application of the DDADUE Law

As of 15 September 2021, the registration of domain names ending in -gouv.fr will be prohibited.

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ADR: Is a “damage to the trademark” enough to win a case?

As every owner of a French trademark knows, it confers a sole right of exploitation in French territory, for ten years, renewable indefinitely.

Only the holder of the trademark can use it for the products and services covered by it. This sole right also entitles the holder to prosecute any domain name holder reproducing the holder’s trademark identically, near-identically or similarly in ADR.

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DNSSEC: change of algorithm for the .fr zone

18 months ago, we published an article (which you can find here) explaining the changes relating to the algorithm of keys used for signing the zones of the top level domains (TLDs) operated by Afnic. In the months that followed, these saw the RSA-SHA256 keys (algorithm number 8, simply referred to as RSA in the rest of this post) replaced by ECDSAP256SHA256 type keys (algorithm number 13, simply called ECDSA below).

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ICANN, its life and work (part 1): built on a certain vision of the Internet

Created in 1998 by the Clinton Administration to ensure the “privatisation” of Internet governance which had been overseen by American universities and research centres up until then, the acronym ICANN is well-known to those working in domain names.

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Why you should start thinking about a custom TLD

In 2012, ICANN, the international Internet address regulator, opened an application round for brands to acquire their own “suffix” (TLDs). Applicants had six months in which to file their requests, which may have been seen by many organisations as a tight deadline which dissuaded them from taking the plunge.