A domain name is your website name, where Internet users can access your website. The domain names have become a significant part in the world of internet. Where Information and Technology has evolved and business is possible through internet, domain names have made progress even commercially.

The WIPO Copyright treaty specifies that copyright only protects the expression and not idea, procedure and method. The WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty (WPPT) grants performers economic rights in their performances fixed in phonograms. The rights are right to reproduction, right of distribution, right of rental and right of making available.

Who would you call a performer? This question could simply be answered by saying a person who entertains an audience. Now to be more specific what would performance mean under the Indian Copyright Act, 1957? The definition of the performance is given in the Act. Section 2 (q) which states “performance, in relation to performer's right, means any visual or acoustic presentation made live by one or more performers”.