Integrated solutions for corporations & law firms

Our global domain name management solutions offer all that an IP professional needs to manage a major portfolio or a single domain name throughout its lifecycle including:

Business Take-On
We make the process of Taking On or transferring a domain name portfolio to our care from another registrar smooth and efficient, minimising risk and cost. We will analyse your names, plot renewal dates and agree with you a process that may see us transferring domains in batches by renewal date, by registrar, by jurisdiction or business unit, depending on your priorities. We produce all the paperwork that is needed and take care of the tricky business of managing registry and registrar passwords.

Registrations
We register domain names across the world. There are over a dozen gTLD registries and 248 ccTLD registries open to corporate applicants, some of which accept filings on a first come first served basis, others which require hard-copy proof of eligibility or a local presence. We have accreditations at all major registries and a network of local agents to provide you with truly global coverage and we maintain an up-to-date library of Registry Requirements, Fees and Formalities.

Renewals
Domain names are IP assets. Many have a value far in excess of any filing fee. The loss of a domain name can bring down a commerce-critical website causing real financial harm. We understand your concerns for a trustworthy process that is secure and reliable and operate a Gold Standard procedure that features accurate renewal forecasting, the automatic renewal of your names and confirmations with all costs.

Modifications
As with all types of IP asset, it is good practice to keep your domain name portfolio up to date with records that reflect your ownership. Furthermore, it is vital that the technical settings that are attached to a domain so that it can point to a website or carry e-mail are maintained accurately. We have a superb technical architecture featuring servers in the UK, Switzerland and the USA. You can trust us to safeguard your domain names and your settings, modifying your records in step with developments in your business. Our modification service features administrative modifications to registration records and technical modifications to nameservers.

Assignments
Domain name registries generally regard an assignment of ownership as an opportunity to delete and then re-register a term. This gives them the opportunity to charge a new registration fee. For the owner of the registration, this is a process full of risk. Could a third party intervene to snatch the name? Can the security of the registry be trusted? How can the work of the losing registrar be co-ordinated with the winning registrar, if applicable? What happens to the settings on a name – especially if it is pointing to a live web site? We know the answers to these questions. We have developed, tested and refined an assignment process that ensures that your domains will remain safe.

Consultancy
We are focussed on domain name management. We audit domains; we register domains; we renew domains; we modify and assign domains and acquire them for our clients. We are dedicated to domain names. It is all we do – with the single exception of consultancy on IP on the internet issues that we supply to leading brand owners and law firms. In the past three years we have supplied consultancy on matters such as:

Preventative and curative measures to protect IP when new domain extensions launch. This includes advice to registry providers on Sunrise schemes, Challenge and Opposition procedures as well as pricing
Benchmarking Assessments
Outsourcing reviews
Web-monitoring solutions
Adword and Key Word strategies
Anti-counterfeiting strategies
How domain names should feature in IP Asset Management software
Valuing domain name portfolios

We charge a fixed fee based on a daily rate with all required expenses reimbursed at cost.

Sign up here for detailed further information on each of these services plus a Flow Chart of the processes we use. We’ve also set out a detailed description of our acclaimed on-line management tool, the DNS-Dashboard for you.

Over and above these services, we ensure that you are up-to-date and in charge of the IP you care for in the domain name system by providing you with advice and consultancy. Wherever you are based, we expect to meet with you on a regular basis to help you develop your domain name strategy and to improve its effectiveness.