According to ntldstats.com, .Fund is leading the other new gTLD’s that go launch into general availability on Wednesday which includes .investments, .Cash and.Tax in terms of domain registrations through Sunrise and EAP
Here are some of the more interesting .Fund registrations taken in the Sunrise period by trademark holders and through the Early Access Program (EAP) where registrants paid an additional fee for early access to the domains.
Personally I like .Fund
I’m sorry I missed out on the domain name Gold.Fund but got several others including Stock.Fund, Bitcoin.fund, Weed.Fund, and NoLoad.Fund
Some domains like Mutual.Fund, Bond.Fund Growth.Fund and Commodity.Fund are reserved or on the collision list.
Other domain names like Tech.Fund and Oil.Fund are available for a premium price of $1,499 at Godaddy.
Here are the taken domain names:
401k.fund
500.fund
active.fund
advisordirect.fund
advisorshares.fund
aia.fund
alternative.fund
alternativeenergy.fund
amazon.fund
amerivest.fund
angel.fund
apax.fund
art.fund
asia.fund
balanced.fund
barrons.fund
bear.fund
bitcoin.fund
bitpay.fund
blackstone.fund
bny.fund
bnymellon.fund
btc.fund
bull.fund
cannabis.fund
chicago.fund
cip.fund
citadel.fund
coin.fund
corporatebond.fund
crypto.fund
domainname.fund
eft.fund
fast.fund
firstcitizens.fund
firststate.fund
fixedincome.fund
franklin.fund
freedom.fund
funds.fund
glacier.fund
gold.fund
goldsilver.fund
gtld.fund
hightech.fund
hotel.fund
iam.fund
icap.fund
imx.fund
insure.fund
libertymutual.fund
macro.fund
marijuana.fund
mellon.fund
merck.fund
mfm.fund
micro.fund
microsoft.fund
mytrade.fund
nationwide.fund
noload.fund
one.fund
orix.fund
our.fund
papermoney.fund
pay.fund
pennystock.fund
prime.fund
raise.fund
rbc.fund
reit.fund
repo.fund
shares.fund
silver.fund
stock.fund
templeton.fund
thebankofnewyork.fund
thehartford.fund
thehedge.fund
theindex.fund
themutual.fund
threadneedle.fund
titan.fund
top.fund
transferpricing.fund
venture.fund
veo.fund
veterinarypetinsurance.fund
virgingreen.fund
visa.fund
vpi.fund
vulture.fund
weed.fund
wine.fund
wrap.fund
Of the 5 _____fund.com domain names my company owns, 4 of the _____.fund variations are reserved, and the other one is taken and listed above. 🙂
Congrats on Bitcoin.Fund. I was bidding on it but when I got the trademark notice I decided not to pay more than $230.00. Do the Winklevoss twins own the trademark?
I don’t know if anyone has the TM, I don’t think its not protectable at this point with hundreds of thousands of sites and businesses the term
OK..Thanks for getting back to me and for the added info…I got this email from Godaddy that started like this a few weeks ago.
Thank you for pre-registering BITCOIN.FUND. Your domain matches at least one trademark record submitted to the Trademark Clearinghouse.
In the coming days, we’ll send you another notice explaining how to acknowledge the trademark claim.
If you choose not to respond to the claim check, GoDaddy will send in the registration after November 11, 2014, if the domain name is still available.
I know
You will get the same notice if you try to register any new gTLD with the word “the” and a bunch of other words
There are “bitcoin” trademarks registered (do a Google search for “TMView”, go to the first match, and do a search). Often, these kinds of marks get registered in unrelated categories. e.g. there’s a UK mark in the category of chocolates.
In the EU sunrise, there were various Benelux TM registrations used to secure “elite” domain names (although, speculators probably lost their shirt, as even the “good” .eu domains turned out to not be in high demand by end-users). If you go to ADR.eu, and search for “plectrums”, you can find some of the inevitable disputes that got decided (for GAME.eu, AUTOTRADER.eu or ASK.eu). Bonus points if you can figure out what a “plectrum” is, without doing a Google search or looking it up in a dictionary…. 🙂
Many of the .EU “trademark” registrations used dodgy Benelux deposit trademarks. These are trademarks that have not gone through the ordinary publication and opposition process. Many speculators were left strumming a different tune after the value of .EU collapsed due to the incompetence of Eurid and the EU commission aided by a bunch of naive speculators who didn’t realise that the EU market had at least twenty seven different languages.
Thanks Mike and George for the added color. Here is the latest news for the bitcoin etf. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-08-15/spiderwoman-brings-hope-to-winklevoss-twins-bitcoin-etf.html