International Law

Playing on IPR fears: The China domain name registry scam

By Andy Scott

You may have received a very helpful looking email lately alerting you to the fact that a Chinese company was attempting to register your domain name here in China, and should you take action quickly, you could not only stop this from happening, but also properly register your domain name and protect your copyright in the barren wasteland of IPR that is China.

It?s all so nice and helpful, and it plays on fears of China as a legal quagmire where anything and everything gets copied. But as the global intellectual property consultancy Rouse & Co. International point out, it may be part of a scam that has been doing the rounds in China for several years now.

This is what they have to say about it.

In China, as elsewhere, the domain name registration system does not require applicants to show that they have any legitimate interest in or right to a name in order to register it as a domain name. Applications are, therefore, not subjected to substantive examination. (more…)

Full post as published by China Briefing Blog on January 06, 2008 (boomark / email).