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Day 1 Donuts Trademark Review: Only 12 of 28 Top Brands Bought The Donuts Block (DPML)

January 30, 2014 by Michael Berkens

According to the WorldtrademarkReview.com, (WTR) only 12 of the 28 top public companies the publication tracked apparently purchased the Donuts’ domain protected marks list (DPML) trademark blocking product.

7 New gTLD strings all by Donuts went live yesterday.

.bike, clothing, .guru, .holdings, .plumbing, .singles and .ventures

According to the WTR; Apple, Microsoft, Walmart, Samsung, Google, Vodafone, Wells Fargo, Chase, BMW, HSBC, Bank of America and McDonalds and Lego all bought the DPML and now have their first 7 new gTLD extensions that Donuts released yesterday.

One company Amazon elected to register their brand in all 7 new gTLD extensions rather than use he DPML.

12 world brands tracked by WTR did not buy the DPML and did not register domains in the 7 extensions released by Donuts yesterday; Citi, China Mobile, IBM, General Electric, Coca-Cola, Verizon, AT&T, Shell, Toyota, NTT, Volkswagen, Home Depot, Pepsi, Facebook

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Filed Under: Legal, New gTLD's

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

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Comments

  1. Ryan Jenkins says

    January 30, 2014 at 1:53 pm

    Is Extortion still legal?

  2. google_user_32a03aaf9a37ae7b7f6fccf56544a0f1 says

    January 30, 2014 at 3:09 pm

    Donuts sales managers don’t know more TOP brands? Fail!!! ^-)

  3. google_user_32a03aaf9a37ae7b7f6fccf56544a0f1 says

    January 30, 2014 at 3:11 pm

    Ryan Jenkins – this is “good will” 🙂 And this is WorkPlaces – for fight with unemployment

  4. bnalponstog says

    January 30, 2014 at 4:30 pm

    Ryan, legal apparently but also encouraged, unquestionably, and repackaged purportedly to “foster innovation” and all that rot. But nobody should expect a bouquet of flowers after they’ve gotten it “in the end”.

  5. Michael Bauser says

    February 7, 2014 at 11:03 pm

    What does it say about your product when “top brands” are paying to NOT use it?

    It says the top brands think your competition is better. Every brand that uses the DPML is effectively announcing that they’re going to stick with the old standards in domain naming.


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