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TradeMark ClearingHouse (TMCH), the party via which trademark holders need to file an application first if they wish to register a name during a sunrise phase of a new gTLD, is about to perform a test run.

March 27, 2013Uncategorized

Trade Mark Clearing House opens his doors

On Tuesday March 26th 2013 Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) has opened its doors. From now on owners of a registered trademark can file an application for this trademark at TMCH.

March 20, 2013Uncategorized

New pope gets domain name as a gift

Jorge Mario Bergoglio, since March 13th 2013, the 266th pope and the first pope named Francis has been offered his first high profile tech gift, his own domain name.

March 13, 2013Uncategorized

Personal dispute jeopardizes all .gd, .tc and .vg domain names

Grenada (.gd), Turks en Caicos Islands (.tc) and British virgin islands (.vg) with a combined population of only about 170.000 people, have all trusted the management of their top level domain into the hands of the English company AdamsNames Ltd. A personal dispute at the top of AdamsNames Ltd is now putting all domain names […]

February 28, 2013Uncategorized

Registrations directly under .uk not for the near future

As we reported earlier, last October Nominet (the .uk-registry) was contemplating opening up for registrations directly under .uk. For now, only registrations on the third level (like under .co.uk or .org.uk) are possible. They received lots of feedback on this idea and now have to conclude that just opening up the second level wouldn’t be […]

February 27, 2013Uncategorized

ICANN only finds 4 gTLD requests too similar

First the not so surprising news: ICANN today officially found “hotels” too similar to “hoteis” (which means “hotels” in Portuguese) and they found “unicorn” too similar to “unicom”.

February 26, 2013Uncategorized

Trademark Clearinghouse will open on March 26th

The Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) will open its doors on March 26th 2013. The TMCH will play an important role during the sunrise phase of the release of the new gTLD’s.