RULES APPROVED FOR ASSIGNING AND REGISTRATION OF DOMAIN NAMES

Abstract

This study aims at highlighting the approved rules related to the assigning and registration of
domain names; the study explores the registration mechanism and conditions as the registration
process may affect the intellectual property rights of others, especially the trademarks and
tradenames, particularly when we know that there are some rules that are being developed in
order to contribute to regulating the process of registering the domain names both at the
national and global levels. The Study attempted to answer a question of paramount importance:
"what are the controls of registering the domain names and what is the impact of such
registration on the future of movement of technological development?" in addition, this Study
reached some conclusions the most important of which state that the process of registering
domain names is subject to the principle of first come, first served which gives priority of
registration to the first comers. As for the recommendations of the Study, the most important
recommendation of the Study is that the Jordanian legislator should interfere in developing
explicit provisions to address the issue of domain names ownership, taking into account the
particularity of this issue in the electronic environment.