Afnic to Attend the 4th International Domain Name Conference on November 19th and 20th

Afnic, the company behind .FR extension announced that it will attend the 4th International Domain Name Conference on November 19th and 20th.

You can read the announcement after the jump :

“The 4th International Domain Name Conference (RINDD) organized by SafeBrands will be held in Paris on November 19th and 20th 2014.

This important event for players on the French domain name market is organized by SafeBrands/Mailclub.
The conferences are reserved primarily for corporate domain name and trademark managers. Seats are also reserved for lawyers, IP firms, trademark attorneys, SEO specialists and journalists.

Agenda 2014
Wednesday 19 November 2014
 
Morning:  New governance, new extensions, new naming
 
Facilitators:
Sébastien Bachollet – Elected member of the AFNIC Board of Directors
Frédéric Guillemaut – Elected member of the AFNIC Board of Directors, MD of SafeBrands/Mailclub
 

    8.45 am: Welcome breakfast

    9.30am: Welcome address by Frédéric Guillemaut, Associate Director of SafeBrands/Mailclub

    9.45am: Debates on the following themes:
    9.45am : NewgTLD / ccTLD : market overview and evolution – Mathieu Weill, CEO at Afnic
    10.15am : Debate on Icann transition and Internet governance – Mathieu Weill / Jean-Jacques Sahel, European VP at Icann
    10.45am: Creating a market – Amy Repp, head of marketing at Donuts
    11.00am: The next rounds of NewgTLDs – Frédéric Guillemaut
    11h10-12.30pm : Round table: Naming in 2020 – Bertrand de la Chapelle / Amy Repp / Mathieu Weill / Jean-Jacques Sahel / Philippe Rodhain, lawyer

 
Afternoon: Strategies for protecting brands and domain names
 

Facilitator: Sébastien Almiron, Senior Domain Name Strategist – SafeBrands

    2.15pm: Gtlds – cctlds – NewGTLDs: 3 types of extensions for 3 users – Sébastien Almiron (SafeBrands) and Francesco Cetraro (Afilias)
    2.40pm: What is a naming charter, its purpose, how to put one together – Sébastien Almiron (SafeBrands)
    3.00pm: Example of a strategy and sharing experiences- Philippe Rodhain (Lawyer) and Bertrand Réalini (Domain name manager BNP Paribas)
    3.15pm: TMCH and DPML: proof of use, choosing the marks to protect, etc. – Sébastien Almiron and Amy Repp (Donuts)
    3.30pm: The specific case of Corp/BrandTLDs – Bertrand Réalini (BNP-Paribas)
    3.50pm: Social networks « usernames »: strategy and security – Sébastien Almiron (SafeBrands)
    4.15pm: Pause
    4.30pm to 6.00pm: Domain name securit, types of attacks, how to protect yourself – Florian Maury (ANSSI), David Saussinan (Unifab), Stéphane Bortzmeyer (Afnic), Jimaan Sane (Beazley)

 
Thursday 20 November 2014
 
Morning: Domain names and value creation
 
Facilitator: Etienne de Fontainieu – Responsable commercial et marketing, Safebrands
 

    8.30 am: Welcome breakfast

    9.00am: Marketing opportunities from the new extensions
        Referencing and NewGTLDs
        The NewGTLDs: implications for the domain name secondary market
        Is domaining dead?

    11.00am: Accounting valuation of a portfolio of domain names

Speakers:

    Guillaume Pahud – Groupe Richemont – CorpTLDs Manager

    Sophie Pieck – Sedo – Country Manager France/Italie

    Matthias Meyer-Schönherr – Sedo – Vice-President in charge of business development for Europe and Asia-Pacific

    Stéphanie Maury – Cabinet Stéphanie Maury

    Franck Maquinay – SEO.fr – CEO

    Nicolas Chabert – Perfeo – CEO

Afternoon: Monitoring, recovery, ending attacks: how to optimize and reduce your expenses?
 
Facilitator: Matthieu Aubert – Responsable juridique, Safebrands

    2.30–5.00pm: Monitoring, analysing, reacting
        Setting up monitoring and analysing the results
        Recovery strategies, their effectiveness and cost – an overview of claims, UDRP, URS
        Worldwide on-line monitoring of potential infringements of your trademarks:
            Domain names
            Social networks
            Apps
            Logos
            Adwords campaigns

    5.30pm: Conclusion of the 4th International Domain Name Conference

Speakers:

    Matthieu Aubert – Legal Manager – SafeBrands / Mailclub

    David Tayer – Lawyer –  Witetic Avocats

    David Saussinan – Legal Manager – Unifab (Union des fabricants)

    Floriane Duel – Legal Counsel, Rapporteur in dispute resolution system Syreli – Afnic

    Chef d’Escadron Bruno Tirelli – Commander at the French “Gendarmerie Nationale” (unit of the French Army), Head of the Intelligence Bureau of the Alsace Region of the Gendarmerie, in charge of Business Intelligence

Further information and Registration

    Address: Forum de Grenelle, 5 rue de la Croix-Nivert, Paris 15ème, France.

    Participation is free but registration required.
    www.rindd.fr