The author describes the abuse of domain names from the point of view of the law against unfair competition. In individual chapters, the author gradually analyses the legal responsibility for unfair abuse of domains and defines passively legitimate subjects. The author also provides the individual reasons why domain name disputes arise. Finally, the author made a legal analysis of the general clause of unfair competition from the point of view of application specificities in the Internet environment and detailed the possibilities of application of special cases of unfair competition. When examining the issue in question, the author relied, above all, on the decision-making practice of the courts and the conclusions of the existing, albeit not too numerous, legal doctrine.
The massive extension of the use of the Internet at the end of the 20th century and at the beginning of the 21th century inevitably led the entrepreneurs to use it for the presentation and performance of their business activities. One of the Internet instruments serving for this purpose is websites, which the user can trace by entering a specific domain name. Each domain name is unique and fulfils many functions. The economic attractiveness and the economic value of domains are the main reasons why we encounter a whole variety of different unlawful procedures and practices relating to domains. The author analyses the legal nature of domains, a collision of domains with the rights to designation and resulting liability relations.
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