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.
Each domain extension has to give first shot to trademark holders who have registered their global marks in the Trademark Clearing House (TMCH) but with each never gTLD launch I’m seeing more and more words, perfectly generic terms being successfully grabbed in the Sunrise period.
.Casino launches into general availability next week but here are some of the very generic words registered in Sunrise already reminding everyone that while global brands need protection, the rest of us need protection from those gaming the Trademark Clearinghouse and the Sunrise period:
cash.casino
credit.casino
gambling.casino
global.casino
hotels.casino
lease.casino
mobile.casino
playpoker.casino
prime.casino
rich.casino
sydney.casino
tahiti.casino
the.casino
uk.casino
vip.casino
virtual.casino
winner.casino
Not to open the oldest discussion, but with thousands of new TLD;’s and potentially millions why is “cash.casino” worth anything. I briefly owned porno.science, and with anything [*]porn[*].com worth millions, I was happy for about fifteen minutes. Then I cancelled the registration.
The valuable ones there are the two big geo’s, mobile, hotels, and to some degree gambling.
With so many restricting laws on gambling in many countries, casino may not get so many registrations.