Spotify

Spotify gets help with managing and monitoring their domain name portfolio

CHALLENGE

Spotify needed help with global domain management

Spotify turned to us when they needed help managing and monitoring their domain name portfolio. In addition, they needed us to help them ensure that their rights where on place in the event of infringement.

Spotify has developed at a rapid pace and Abion has had the pleasure of helping them with the global domain management throughout the growth journey. We are happy that they are satisfied with us as a supplier.

Filip Sundgren Olsson

Client Manager for Spotify

Solution

Global portfolios require the right expertise

It’s crucial for an international company to have integrated and secure management. Spotify is a trade mark that is especially exposed to various infringements. We help Spotify assess what is reasonable to register. This means that we work proactively by advising about new top domains and other changes to keep Spotify in the loop, and assist with strategic advice about how and what should be registered. We also work reactively with monitoring. Our key strength is that we have the resources to handle global portfolios.

We help Spotify with

Corporate Domain Management
Registrations and transfers of domain names
Advice on the management of domain portfolio and new top level domains
Monitoring of third party registrations

Result

Structure and monitoring protects the brand

Our strength and uniqueness is that we offer all top domains in the world – we are an ICANN-accredited domain name supplier – and we administer, renew and structure Spotify’s domain portfolio. We monitor the Spotify trade mark, and alert any infringement of it, for example with misspellings or similar names, (such as spotifi.com or freespotify.com). We also help them block and monitor registrations under new top level domains. And we handle takeovers of previously registered, infringing domain names–either through purchase or legal measures.

About Spotify

Spotify

Spotify is a digital music streaming service with access to millions of songs. The company was founded in 2006 by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon. It was initially an exclusive music community, open only to specially invited individuals. When Spotify was launched for a broad public in 2008 it became the leading platform for listening to music from all over the world legally, without needing to buy it. Spotify’s users today have access to one of the fastest growing catalogues of licensed music in the world. In 2015 Spotify had 75 million users and more than 20 million hours of music available for users. The service is available in 55 countries. spotify.com