What Domgate offers law firms
Domgate was founded in 2014 by Philippe Boos, who used to work as a European Trademark Attorney. Its team brings together country code domain account managers, legal specialists and IT experts, and its services for law firms cover the whole cycle: securing the rights, watching the domains, acting against infringements.
Trademark registration through our network
We register trademarks through our network of trademark attorneys, and you manage your clients' trademarks and domain names in one centralized platform. Our prices include the application, the registration certificate and the legal fees, except for potential legal defense fees. Our trademark registration page lists the countries with their price or their order link.
Domain watching for your clients
A domain watch tells you when someone registers a domain that contains your client's brand or keywords, in any extension. Each alert comes with the domain name, a link to the website if one is active, and the public registration record.
Periodic reports group the alerts by brand and by extension, with the status of each case, and are written for the person who has to decide. Our watching page describes what is watched and what to do with an alert.
Recovering infringing domains
Our legal department handles domain name disputes:
- Cease-and-desist letters to the domain holder, and negotiations towards an amicable settlement.
- Website takedowns on trademark or copyright grounds.
- Procedures before arbitration bodies, such as the UDRP and the URS for generic extensions, and the procedure of the registry or of its designated arbitration centre for country code domains.
When a recovery action is needed, it follows through our legal department or through your own counsel. Our domain recovery page explains how a case runs.
Confidential projects and restricted extensions
Anonymous registration keeps the name of the company behind a domain out of public view, before a product launch, a merger or a change of name. Law firms use it for the clients whose projects they prepare, with the agreement drafted in their name; see anonymization. Where a registry requires a local address, company or contact, our local presence service lets your clients register the extension anyway.
Work with us
Send us your client's trademark and the domains of concern, and we come back with an assessment.
Our solutions page presents what Domgate offers to registrars and hosting companies, to IP law firms, and to brands and corporations.
Services for your clients
Each service has its own page, with the details of how we work.
Trademark registration
Trademarks registered through our network of trademark attorneys, with the price per country.
Trademark watching
Alerts on the domains that contain your clients' brands, with periodic reports by brand and extension.
Domain recovery
Cease-and-desist letters, takedowns, UDRP and the procedures of country code registries.
Anonymization
Domains registered without revealing the client behind a confidential project.
Local presence
The local address, company or contact that restricted extensions require.
Global domain strategy
A portfolio audit and a domain policy that you can offer under your own name.
Law firms: frequent questions
Yes for the domain portfolio audit, which law firms offer to their clients under their own name. They also use anonymous registration for their clients' projects, with the agreement drafted in their name.
Cease-and-desist letters, negotiations, website takedowns on trademark or copyright grounds, and procedures before arbitration bodies such as the UDRP and the URS. For country code domains, the procedure is the one of the registry or of the arbitration centre it has designated; some extensions have none, and a court is then the only way.
The application, the registration certificate and the legal fees, except for potential legal defense fees. Our trademark registration page gives the price or the order link of each country.
Domgate was founded in 2014 by Philippe Boos, its CEO, who used to work as a European Trademark Attorney. Our About Domgate page tells the story.
