There are many different views on the nature of domain name right in Chinese academic circles.
Domain name rights
To sum up, there are mainly the following types: domain name right is an extension of traditional intellectual property rights in cyberspace; Think that domain name belongs to the category of name right; Domain name right is a new type of intellectual property; Others think that domain names have no rights at all. Domain name is defined as a new type of intellectual property. According to the following:
Domain name is an identification mark.
According to the International Association for the Protection of Industrial Property (AIPPI) 1992 Tokyo Conference, intellectual property rights can be divided into two categories: the right of creative achievements and the right of identification and marking. Accordingly, the objects of intellectual property can be divided into two categories: creative achievements and identification marks. Obviously, the domain name belongs to the identification mark. Identification marks are protected by intellectual property rights, on the one hand, because it embodies creative labor, on the other hand, it is also the need to stop unfair competition. Some scholars have suggested that domain names lack originality of intellectual property rights, or their creativity is far less than traditional intellectual property rights, such as copyright, patent right and trademark right. Even for those abbreviations that only reflect the names of companies or individuals, they have special meanings. Domain names are produced through creative labor conceived and selected by human beings, and are the intellectual achievements of human beings. Since the development of domain name, its composition is not always as mechanical as mailing address, but contains creativity and embodies people's wisdom.