Tag Archives: trademark clearinghouse

Mon 28th July 2014
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27 of tip 50 websites safeguarding their brands on new Donuts domain names - How are brands protecting themselves with new top level domain names? Many are, but there are some surprises. I just checked how the top 50 websites are protecting their brands on Donuts top level domain names. I took the top 50 (public) sites from Quantcast and ran them through whois for their matching .gripe domain to see if they were registered by the brandholder or blocked with Donuts’ Domains Protected Marks List. I chose .gripe for several reasons. First, ... read more ...
Tue 25th March 2014
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TMCH brags about numbers, though what do they mean? - Trademark Clearinghouse has issued 500,000 claims notices. The Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) announced today that it has issued 500,000 claims notices to prospective registrants of domains under new top level domain names. The notices are shown when someone tries to register a domain that matches a trademark or trademark string submitted to the database. Here’s what the claims notices look like. That’s an impressively high number, but what exactly does it mean? ... read more ...
Tue 11th March 2014
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New TLD heading notifications tip 20,000 - The Trademark Clearinghouse has sent over 20,000 notices to trademark holders based on domain registrations matching trademarks. The Trademark Clearinghouse has now issued 20,076 trademark notifications based on second level registrations in new TLDs. The notifications are sent to entities that have registered their marks with the Trademark Clearinghouse whenever someone registers an SLD that matches that mark. There are only 27,252 marks submitted to the Clearinghouse, ... read more ...
Mon 10th February 2014
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How common difference like Pizza, Money, and Shopping finished adult in a Trademark Clearinghouse for new TLDs - The Trademark Clearinghouse for new TLDs is giving some people first dibs on domains like realestate.guru and pizza.restaurant. The .info domain name got seriously gamed when it had its trademark sunrise period in 2001. There was no pre-verification mechanism to determine if trademarks used to claim a .info domain met requirements. As a result, 20,000 sunrise registrations were later deemed invalid. Many more were accepted under rather lax standards. The same thing ... read more ...
Thu 30th January 2014
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Want to see a new Trademark Claims Notice in action? Here’s an example. - See what it looks like if you try to register a second level domain in a new TLD that matches a record at the Trademark Clearinghouse. One of the rights protections mechanisms for new top level domain names is the Trademark Claims Notice. For the first 90 days after a new top level domain name is available (post sunrise), domain name registrars must post this notice when someone tries to register a domain name that matches a mark registered with the Trademark Clearinghouse. The ... read more ...
Fri 13th December 2013
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A small bit some-more about a Trademark Clearinghouse’s extended warning service - Answers to two questions about the TMCH extending alerts beyond 90 days. Yesterday I wrote about how the Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) is extending the amount of time it will alert trademark holders if someone registers domains that contain their mark. Originally set for just 90 days, now the TMCH will extend the service for as long as a mark is registered with the TMCH. (For more background, see my previous story.) Some readers brought up good questions, which I ... read more ...
Thu 12th December 2013
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Trademark Clearinghouse extends warning use over 90 days - Extension will mostly benefit companies that pay more for longer TMCH registrations. The Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) for new top level domain names has extended the amount of time it will notify rights holders that domain names matching their trademarks have been registered. As background, registering a mark with the TMCH provides three services to rights holders when it comes to new top level domain names: 1. Initial eligibility to participate in sunrise periods. 2. ... read more ...
Wed 6th November 2013
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About that dotShabaka new TLD sunrise… - The first new TLD sunrise doesn’t look like much of a sunrise yet. Last week I wrote about how the sunrise for شبكة. (.shabaka) had begun. The only catch was I couldn’t find any place to actually place a sunrise order. I reached out to Yasmin Omer, General Manager of dotShabaka Registry, to find out why. It turns out there’s a good reason I can’t find any place to submit a sunrise order. Here’s what Omer had to say: dotShabaka Registry is in the process ... read more ...
Fri 20th September 2013
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Over 10,000 annals now in Trademark Clearinghouse - Number of records in Trademark Clearinghouse doubles since the middle of July. As of the end of August, the Trademark Clearinghouse for new top level domain names has 10,398 trademark records. That’s double the amount as of the middle of July. Over 97% are for ASCII characters (e.g. the type of characters you’re reading on your screen right now). Only 270 records are for internationalized domain names. The top non-ASCII script so far is Han with 162 records. Cyrillic, ... read more ...
Tue 23rd July 2013
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Sorting contribution from novella in a Trademark Clearinghouse - [Editors note: The Trademark Clearinghouse is a unique way for brand owners to protect themselves with the introduction of top level domain names. Jan Corstens, a partner at Deloitte (which operates the Trademark Clearinghouse), explains some of the common misconceptions about the service in this guest post.] With upcoming drastic changes to the Internet, including new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) such as .nyc and .boston to .book and .lol – it is crucial that ... read more ...
Tue 16th July 2013
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Trademark Clearinghouse Tops 5,000 submissions - Trademark protection service for new top level domains releases statistics. The Trademark Clearinghouse for new top level domains has received 5,000 submissions, the group announced today. 44% of the submissions have come from the United States. 10% are from France, 7% from the United Kingdom, and 4% from Germany. The top category of submissions so far are for “scientific or teaching apparatus” with 23%. That includes a wide range of products, from medical equipment ... read more ...
Fri 26th April 2013
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NCSG hurdles ICANN preference to extend Trademark Clearinghouse rights - Formal Request for Reconsideration challenges trademark owners ability to add 50 derivatives of trademarks to clearinghouse. The GNSO Noncommercial Users Stakeholders Group has submitted a Request for Reconsideration to ICANN’s Board Governance Committee concerning a decision by ICANN to extend trademark protections in new top level domains. The reconsideration request argues that ICANN shouldn’t have added the so-called “Trademark +50″ protection in the Trademark ... read more ...
Mon 22nd April 2013
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The new TLD Trademark Clearinghouse is about to get a lot of attention - The TMCH phase of new TLDs is here. Which companies should participate, and how should they approach online brand protection in the coming years? The Trademark Clearinghouse is now open for business and will soon get a lot of mainstream attention.Remember when .xxx came out and law firms across the country advised their clients to defensively register domains? Law firms are now sending notices to their clients about signing up for the Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH), ... read more ...