13/11/2024-Decision on the domain name “côtesdeprovence.fr”.

In September 2024, an interesting decision was issued by Afnic, the French non-for-profit body in charge of managing the ccTLD “.fr”.

The domain name cotesdeprovence.fr had been registered in 2004 by the Société AOC et Cies, specialized in computer services. Earlier in 2024, the “Syndicat des vins Côtes de Provence” (hereafter the Syndicat), had asked the Société AOC for domain name transfer. In its response, the latter mentioned that the domain name had never been used and demanded a decent commercial proposal in exchange for it.