The WIPO GIs database compiles the replies provided by SCT members (Standing Commitee on the law of Trademarks, Industrial Designs and GIs) in response to the questionnaires on the national and regional systems that can provide a certain protection to GIs (SCT/40/5) and on the use/misuse of GIs, country names and geographical terms on the Internet and in the Domain Name System (DNS) (SCT/40/6).
