Check .lt domain
Entrepreneurs from Vilnius, Klaipėda, Panevėžys and Šiauliai will increase their knowledge about trademark and domain registration, learn more about intellectual property protection, prevention of legal disputes over domain names and trademarks, and European Union (EU) support for small and medium-sized enterprises creating intellectual property. The seminar will be held for the business community in Šiauliai on 27 April 2023, for entrepreneurs in Panevėžys on 4 May 2023, in Vilnius on 10 May 2023, and for business representatives in Klaipėda on 30 May 2023.
Kaunas University of Technology, Internet Service Center DOMREG and the State Patent Bureau of the Republic of Lithuania, invites to the seminar “Why is intellectual property important for business? History of domains and trademarks”.
The Lithuanian Computer Society (LIKS) has conducted a survey to determine whether women in open Lithuanian and Icelandic Facebook discussion groups spell their surnames correctly, i.e. using unique letters. The results revealed that only 59% of Lithuanian women spelled their surname correctly on social network sites, while the rest used incorrect spelling with Latin letters without diacritics. Icelandic women were much more active in using unique letters of their language in their surnames, with 90% of Icelandic surnames spelled correctly.
The Internet Service Centre DOMREG at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) reports that the growth in the number of .lt domains fell to just 0.5% in 2022, compared to 5.7% in 2021 and even 7.1% in 2020. In total, there were more than 226 000 second-level .lt domains registered at the end of 2022.
Kaunas University of Technology, together with the Internet Service Center DOMREG and the State Patent Bureau of the Republic of Lithuania, organized the seminar “Why is intellectual property important for business? History of domains and trademarks”.
From 2023 February starts the new series of remote seminars organized by ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) for registrars and the Internet community in Central Europe and the Baltic countries.
Any business start-up is inseparable from its name - company, trademark, domain. It is often the case that the first step is to create a domain for a website, and only then to develop a trademark and register a company. No matter which comes first - the chicken or the egg - it is essential to take care of domain and trademark protection at the start-up stage.
The seminar for the registrars organized by the Internet Service Centre DOMREG at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) took place on 1 December 2022.
To combat cyber threats, especially lightning-fast fraud attacks, the Lithuanian National Cyber Security Centre under the Ministry of National Defence (NCSC) in cooperation with the Internet Service Centre DOMREG at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) have developed a new free tool for residents and organisations – DNS Firewall.
