Potential Impact of the Famous Pierre Fabre Case on e-Business in the EU – The European Secret message about the significance of Domain names

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Potential Impact of the Famous Pierre Fabre Case on e-Business in the EU – The European Secret message about the significance of Domain names

Original language description

Information systems and information technologies (“IS/IT”) are hallmarks of our post-modern, global society and successful business conduct depends strongly on their appropriate use. The platform par excellence for e-business, and in particular e-commerce, is the supra net of e-nets, the Internet (MacGregor, 2013). Structurally, the Internet is hierarchically composed of large domains called Top Level Domains (“TLDs”), while each of the TLDs includes a number of domains carrying domain names. Technically, a domain is the e-sphere around one or more e-devices, typically computers, sharing a common communications address expressed as a code under Internet Protocol, either in 32 bits version 4 or in 128 bits version 6 using 8 groups of 16 bits separated by a double column “:” (MacGregor, 2012a). Thus, a domain is an e-platform for a set of related web pages called a web site, which is hosted on at least one web server accessible via the Internet or a private local area network (“LAN”). All publically accessible web sites constitute the World Wide Web and they, resp. their domains, have a numeric code IP v4 or IP v6 address convertible through the Domain Names System (“DNS”) into a verbal form called domain names. The practical implication is that virtually all businesses in the EU use the Internet and are present on the Internet, i.e. typically they “have” at least one domain with a preferably attractive domain name and they use it for their web site, i.e. for the their e-business and especially its selling oriented part, e-commerce. Businesses clearly rely on customers shopping online and e.g. more than 10% of all retail sales are made over the Internet in several EU member states and by 2020 this proportion should double (Gilbert, 2013).

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

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OECD FORD branch

50202 - Applied Economics, Econometrics

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Continuities

N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

Proceedings of 12th International Conference Economic Policy in the European Union Member Countries

ISBN

978-80-7510-114-3

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Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

509-520

Publisher name

Silesian University

Place of publication

Karviná, Czech Republic

Event location

Ostravice, CZECH REPUBLIC

Event date

Sep 16, 2014

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

999