AFNIC, which administers the .fr ccTLD, has been held not liable…

AFNIC, which administers the .fr ccTLD, has been held not liable by a French court for failing to suspend a domain name about which a trade mark owner complained.  The decision is sensible, given the impossibility of a domain registry policing the uses to which all registered domains are put, and consistent with article 15 of the E-Commerce Directive.