The application period to register your brand as a domain name extension (.BRAND) has just opened on 12 January 2012 and will end on 12 April 2012. In fact, this window of opportunity is even shorter than it looks since you can’t initiate an application after 29 March 2012. This is the first time since 2004 that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) has launched such a wide new generic Top Level Domain (gTLDs) program (in addition to the traditional .com, .net, .org, etc.). The countdown has just begun so don’t miss out.

The law dated 5 April 1993 on the Financial Sector (“FSL”), amended by the law dated 28 October 2011 on credit rating agencies, provides a new legal basis for remuneration policies in the financial sector. Over the past two years, Luxembourg has worked at implementing and clarifying the principle of remuneration policies in the financial sector by way of 4 circulars: