See below from RPM working group mailing list. Apparently, a company in
England has registered "the" as its trademark thereby has gotten to
register many the.newgtld under the TMCH which is outrageous! I think
someone needs to blog about this. Any volunteers?
Farzaneh
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From: Jon Nevett
Date: Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 8:54 AM
Subject: [gnso-rpm-wg] TMCH Blog
To: gnso-rpm-wg
FYI -- for those who haven't seen this blog:
https://www.thedomains.com/2017/02/01/the-trademark-clearing
house-worked-so-well-one-company-got-24-new-gtld-using-
the-famous-trademark-the/
The Trademark ClearingHouse Worked So Well One Company Got 24 new gTLD
using The Famous Trademark “The”
February 1, 2017 by Michael Berkens
<https://www.thedomains.com/author/michael-berkens/> 5 Comments
<https://www.thedomains.com/2017/02/01/the-trademark-clearinghouse-worked-so-well-one-company-got-24-new-gtld-using-the-famous-trademark-the/#comments>
The Trademark ClearingHouse (TMCH) <http://www.trademark-clearinghouse.com/>
which was set up/ contracted by ICANN to protect those famous worldwide
brand names from abuse by those nasty domain name squatters resulted in a
whole new industry.
Those playing the TMCH for their own benefit to get first jump at new gTLD
domain names to get registered in Sunrise ahead of all other under common
words like “the”
Actually there maybe no better example than those domain names obtained on
the world-famous trademarks as of the word”the”, which is the most used
word in the English language
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_common_words_in_English>.
The world-famous trademark for the word “the” was obtained by Goallover
Limited of London who according to DomainTools.com owns an amazing amount
of domain names approaching nearly 100, but was able to get all of the
following new gTLD’s using their globally well-known trademark on the word
“the” under the ICANN trademark clearinghouse rules which allows them to
obtain the domain names ahead of all other applicants.
Of course the company could have had obtained even more “the” new gTLD
domain names in Sunrise but apparently did not apply for more.
Somehow the company doesn’t appear to own the domain name The.Com
For all Trademark Holders its nice to know the world is a safer place:
the.car
the.career
the.cars
the.casino
the.doctor
the.earth
the.foundation
the.furniture
the.game
the.group
the.ltd
the.mba
the.pub
the.report
the.run
the.school
the.services
the.storage
the.tools
the.university
the.watch
the.wine
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