Hogan Lovells reports on a decision of the Paris Court of Appeal ruled that the Association Française pour le Nommage Internet en Coopération (AFNIC), the registry for the ‘.fr’ country-code top-level domain, was not liable for failing to freeze or block an infringing domain name on notice by an interested party without a court order.

The court also held that EuroDNS, a Luxembourg-based registrar, was not liable for failing to monitor the registration of potentially infringing domain names, even in the case of well-known trademarks