Conference on Digital Territories and the .BZH GeoTLD To Be Held June 3 at the Brest CCI

Afnic, the company behind .FR extension announced that the Brest and Morlaix Chambers of Commerce are hosting “The New Digital Territories” conference, in conjunction with the .BZH Association and Afnic .

You can read the announcement after the jump :

“The Brest and Morlaix Chambers of Commerce are hosting a conference: “The new digital territories”, in conjunction with the .bzh Association and Afnic.

The first domain names under the .bzh GeoTLD should be registered by the end of 2014. In accordance with the rules defined by ICANN, different registration phases will be implemented before the opening for the general public, including a priority registration phase (sunrise period)  for brands.

In order to identify the issues at stake in this new development for corporate and individual brand owners:

The conference will take place in three complementary stages:

1. The issues involved in the new GeoTLDs, hosted by Cédric Michel-Flandin, Afnic Key Accounts Manager.

2. Trademark protection, existing tools (Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH), the French National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI), etc.), and detection of cases of cybersquatting, hosted by Jean-François Poussard, Director of Prodomaines, an expert in domain names.

3. Outlooks created by .bzh domain names for services in Brittany, hosted by David Lesvenan, President of the .bzh association.

Practical information

Tuesday 3 June 2014 at 18:00

Brest Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Place du 19ème RI

Brest

Entry free, registration compulsory (http://bzh.si/brest3juin) before 30 May.