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Avoid becoming an accidental outlaw by taking care with trademarks
17/11/2011
Tags: Brand protection, Ecommerce, Internet law

If you are selling goods online using an online auction site or on your own website then you should take care when using logos.

Business use their logos as ‘trademarks’ to identify their products or services to consumers and they are specially protected once they are registered. To find out whether a name is protected you can search online at www.ipo.gov.uk

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ICANN paves way for new Internet domains
22/06/2011
Tags: Brand protection, Business website, Domain names, Domain names

Earlier this week, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) – the global organisation responsible for the Internet’s naming system - approved changes to the domain name system that will allow organisations and communities to apply for new domain name endings.

At present there are 22 generic top-level domains (gTLDs), such as .com, .org and .net. Under the new rules, organisations will be able to apply for any top level domain they might want, in any language or script.

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