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CommentsEnCirca (www.encirca.com) announced a unique service for trademark owners to satisfy the Nexus requirements for the new dot-eu domain names. This proprietary service enables trademark owners based outside the European Union (EU) to protect their trademarks in the new dot-eu domain.
Eligibility for the dot-eu domain is restricted to users who can satisfy a physical presence (Nexus) in a member-country of the EU. This EU Nexus requirement effectively prevents thousands of trademark owners based outside the EU but with prior trademark rights in the EU from safeguarding their trademarks in the new dot-eu domain.
“The dot-eu registry is doing a lot to ensure that the rights of intellectual property owners are protected, but some EU trademark rights have been left exposed.” says Tom Barrett, President of EnCirca. “With EnCirca’s dot-eu Nexus service, companies owning prior trademark rights in the EU but located outside of the EU, can now protect their trademarks during the dot-eu Sunrise Period.”
The dot-eu domain was approved by ICANN as the new internet address for the internet community in the European Union. EnCirca. (www.encirca.com ) has been granted full accreditation to offer the new dot-eu domain names by euRid, the official registry for dot-eu domain names. The dot-eu domain is projected to be one of the most popular domain extensions with an anticipated sunrise period coming near the end of 2005.
The dot-eu Nexus requirement says that to register a dot-eu domain name you must be one of the following:
• undertakings having their registered office, central administration or principal place of business
within the European Community;
• organizations established within the European Community without prejudice to the application
of national law;
• natural persons resident within the European Community.
The International Trademark Association (INTA) is a not-for-profit membership association of more than 4,600 trademark owners and professionals, from more than 180 countries, dedicated to the support and advancement of trademarks and related intellectual property as elements of fair and effective national and international commerce.
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