With regard to the increasing importance of the internet in commercial and personal presentation, the choice of an appropriate domain name becomes very important. The registration of the domain names is primarily based on the principle of first come – first served, i.e. the right to the domain belongs to the one who comes first.
This principle is, however, made relative in two aspects. The first is the process of registration in the deployment of new “top level public domains” (TLD’s), those are the new suffixes of domains (.eu, .travel, .hobby, etc.). In these, priority is often given to the owners of trademarks or other prior rights to the domain name. The second aspect is the possibility of a subsequent withdrawal or forced transfer of the domain name based on the request of a person, who has a prior right to the domain name, be it from the copyright, unfair competition legislation or the trademark infringement, as is the most common case.
In this respect it is very advantageous to register the wording of the domain name as a trademark as well. Due to the plethora of TLD’s it is almost impossible to occupy all the variants of the domain name. The trademark can then effectively help in the struggle with an unauthorized parasitic registration of a domain.
The disputes over the .cz domains are decided in the Czech republic either by regular courts or by the Arbitration Court attached to the Economic Chamber of the Czech Republic and the Agricultural Chamber of the Czech Republic. Domain disputes from other domains are decided by the rules of competent international authority – ICANN (UDRP rules). For the .com, .net, .org and also.eu, .aero, .asia, .biz, .cat, .com, .coop, .info, .jobs, .mobi, .museum, .name, .net, .org, .pro, .tel, .travel the competent authority is the Arbitration Court attached to the Economic Chamber of the Czech Republic and the Agricultural Chamber of the Czech Republic.