The Trademark ClearingHouse (TMCH) which was set up/ contracted by ICANN to protect those famous worldwide brand names from abuse by those nasty domain name squatters resulted in a whole new industry….
Category: TMCH
Google Registers Alphabet.Sex in Sunrise: How Did They Do That? + More Generic’s Reg As TM
Google has added another domain name to its growing Alphabet brand, this time Alphabet.sex which got registered yesterday. But Google registering another Alphabet domain name is not the story. The issue is…
Trademark Game Playing Results In Great Generic Domains Being Registered In .Casino Sunrise
Wynn,the Bellagio,the Borgata, the MGM, the Mirage and the Aira are just a few of the famous Casino’s which registered their name in the new gTLD .Casino extension during the Sunrise period….
.Sucks Releases Pricing With “Premiums” For Trademark Holders Up To $2,499 A Year
Vox Populi Registry Ltd. the owner of the new gTLD .Sucks, made headlines last year when as one of several applicants for .Sucks announced pricing of up to…
Survey Of Brand Strategies in the New gTLD Era Published By Largest Law Firm In France
Fidal, the largest lawfirm in France, put out the results of a very detailed survey on new gtlds and how brands are using them. They conducted a survey that delved into a…
More Trademark Clearing House Abuse: Texas & Venture Triggers Notice
A couple of weeks ago we wrote about Trademark holders of generic terms applying to the Trademark Clearing House (TMCH) where trademarks on many of which were causing some of those 500,000…
.Berlin Dirk Krischenowski Blasts ICANN Over TMCH Which Has “Largely Failed”
Internetworld.de, interviewed Dirk Krischenowski of .Berlin who blasted ICANN and the performance of the Trademark Clearing House (TMCH) The article was published in German and we used Google translate. Dirk chatted with…