Tag: ZA Central Registry (ZACR)

The ZA Central Registry (ZACR) NPC is aware that the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) will come into effect on 25 May 2018. In addition, there are talks that South Africa’s own Protection of Personal Information (POPI) Act 26 of 2013 may come into effect during the course of 2018.

Start-ups now have greater control over their Intellectual Property (IP). This follows ground-breaking collaboration between the Companies & Intellectual Properties Commission (CIPC), the ZA Domain Name Authority (ZADNA) and the ZA Central Registry NPC (ZACR) that makes it possible to register a new company and its equivalent co.za domain name at the same time. 

ZA Central Registry (ZACR) has confirmed that some 12 677 org.za domain names are set for potential deletion on 1 September 2017. This is after 15 420 org.za domain names were suspended on 01 September 2016 following an extensive pre-deletion public awareness campaign by ZACR. Deletions are taking place because only 2 394 org.za domain owners have heeded ZACR's many requests to prevent their eventual deletion by migrating to ZACR-Accredited Registrars.

Trademark owners failing to register dotAfrica (.africa) domain names matching their brand names during the 4 April to 2 June Sunrise phase could find themselves incurring significant legal costs.