Check .lt domain
Entrepreneurs from Vilnius, Klaipėda, Panevėžys and Šiauliai will increase their knowledge about trademark and domain registration, learn more about intellectual property protection, prevention of legal disputes over domain names and trademarks, and European Union (EU) support for small and medium-sized enterprises creating intellectual property. The seminar will be held for the business community in Šiauliai on 27 April 2023, for entrepreneurs in Panevėžys on 4 May 2023, in Vilnius on 10 May 2023, and for business representatives in Klaipėda on 30 May 2023.
The Lithuanian Computer Society (LIKS) has conducted a survey to determine whether women in open Lithuanian and Icelandic Facebook discussion groups spell their surnames correctly, i.e. using unique letters. The results revealed that only 59% of Lithuanian women spelled their surname correctly on social network sites, while the rest used incorrect spelling with Latin letters without diacritics. Icelandic women were much more active in using unique letters of their language in their surnames, with 90% of Icelandic surnames spelled correctly.
The Internet Service Centre DOMREG at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) reports that the growth in the number of .lt domains fell to just 0.5% in 2022, compared to 5.7% in 2021 and even 7.1% in 2020. In total, there were more than 226 000 second-level .lt domains registered at the end of 2022.
Any business start-up is inseparable from its name - company, trademark, domain. It is often the case that the first step is to create a domain for a website, and only then to develop a trademark and register a company. No matter which comes first - the chicken or the egg - it is essential to take care of domain and trademark protection at the start-up stage.
To combat cyber threats, especially lightning-fast fraud attacks, the Lithuanian National Cyber Security Centre under the Ministry of National Defence (NCSC) in cooperation with the Internet Service Centre DOMREG at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) have developed a new free tool for residents and organisations – DNS Firewall.
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Lithuanian national domain since 1992 when the .lt domain was created online at the request of the University of Oslo with the support of the Government of Norway. The first domains mii.lt, ktu.lt, and vu.lt were registered in 1993.
