域名知识产权分析——兼谈域名与商标的冲突

The Analysis of the intellectual property rights of Domain name -The conflicts of Domain name and Trade mark

域名是连接到国际互联网上的计算机的地址,是为了便于人们发送和接受电子邮件或访问某个网站而设计的。随着因特网在世界范围内的迅猛发展,域名与商标的冲突日趋成为人们关注与争论的焦点。域名问题产生的根本原因在于目前世界各国的立法对其没有明确的定性。鉴于域名具有无形智力成果的特征和重要的商业价值,域名应该成为一种新的网络知识产权。

Domain Name, which is connected to the Internet, is initially designed to make it convenient to send and get emails or visit some websites for the people. With the rapid development of the Internet around the world, the conflict between domain name and the trademark is increasingly becoming the focus of people's concern and discussion. The basic reason of the problems of the domain name is that there is no established law on it of all the countries. In view of it's invisible intellectual characteristics and its important business value, domain name should be a new kind of intellectual property on the Internet.