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Domain Name Law and Practice: An International Handbook
Edited by Torsten Bettinger

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Last updated: 20 October 2006

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Table of Contents

I. THE DOMAIN NAME SYSTEM AND THE PROCEDURES AND POLICIES FOR THE REGISTRATION OF DOMAIN NAMES (Torsten Bettinger)

1. Structure and Organization of the Domain Name System
   
2. Registration Requirements and Dispute Resolution
   
3. Statistics

II. NATIONAL DOMAIN NAME SYSTEMS AND CONFLICTS WITH DOMESTIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS REGIMES

• Australia (Alistair Payne and Ravi Mohindra)
• Austria (Reinhard Schanda)
• Belgium (Alain Strowel and Eric Daems)
• Canada (Eric Macramalla)
• China (Thomas Pattloch)
• Czech Republic (Renata Potmakova)
• Denmark (Knud Wallberg)
• Finland (George R. F. Souter)
• France (Angela Brüning)
• Germany (Torsten Bettinger)
• Greece (Panagiotis Rigopoulos)
• Hong Kong (Hong Xue)
• India (Pravin Anand)
• Ireland (James Bridgeman)
• Italy (Philipp Fabbio)
• Japan (Makoto Hattori)
• Netherlands (Dirk J.G. Visser, Remy D. Chavannes and Lars L. Huisman)
• Norway (Jostein Solberg)
• Poland (Justyna Ozegalska-Trybalska)
• Russian Federation (Iouri Kobiako)
• Singapore (Tan Tee Jim)
• Spain (Luis Gimeno Olcina)
• Sweden (Petter Rindforth)
• Switzerland (Gallus Joller)
• Turkey (Mustafa Aksu)
• United Kingdom (Tony Willoughby)
  Updates are provided by Steve Palmer
• United States (Sally M. Abel)

III. ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION (Torsten Bettinger)

1. Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP)
2. Alternative Dispute Resolution for ".eu"
3. Other gTLD-specific Alternative Dispute Resolution Procedures

IV. THE PARIS CONVENTION/WIPO JOINT RECOMMENDATION CONCERNING PROVISIONS ON THE PROTECTION OF MARKS AND OTHER INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY RIGHTS IN SIGNS ON THE INTERNET (Torsten Bettinger)

V. COUNTRY OVERVIEWS

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