Ordipat

OrdiPat provides domain name management, the Alissia software for managing intellectual property rights, and hosted IT infrastructure. Its domain service covers registration, transfer, DNS management, expiry tracking, backorders, the Typochecker brand-protection tool for lookalike domains, and complaint and dispute procedures. Alissia manages patent and trademark files, deadlines, automatic letters, batch annuity processing and multi-currency invoicing.

Its customers are intellectual property firms and companies that manage domain name portfolios. Services are selected individually and quoted after an assessment of each client's situation, rather than sold as fixed packages.

The business was set up in 1978 by several French industrial property firms that wanted to pool their IT resources. The company is based in Paris, operates two replicated data centres in the Paris region, and is accredited by AFNIC, EURid, Nominet and the Trademark Clearinghouse. The group also includes Rapidomaine, a self-service domain and hosting brand, and Acumass, which handles patent annuity and trademark renewal payments through local agents in 193 countries.

Product: Domain name registration and portfolio management, Alissia IP docketing software, Typochecker brand-protection monitoring, and hosting in two Paris-region data centres.