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Firm offers .xxx trademark checks
We’ve seen domain “reservation” services and “preregistration” services, now the soon-to-launch .xxx top-level domain is getting a pre-sunrise trademark verification service.
Trademark Fact Check is a new offering from EnCirca president Tom Barrett and Mark Kudlacik, formerly of NetNames and now president of Checkmark Network.
It’s an automated tool for checking whether a trademark will qualify for the .xxx sunrise period – and the sunrise periods of other new gTLDs – according to the service’s web site.
The output, among other things, consists of a list of domain names you qualify to register in the sunrise.
It supports about 30 national jurisdictions.
Checks will cost $10 a pop, but Barrett and Kudlacik think they can save applicants money.
If a sunrise application is rejected due to a filing error, the only option is to pay again to file again, which for .xxx is likely to cost at least $200 with the cheapest registrars.
There’s a money back guarantee if Trademark Fact Check says an application will pass and it does not.
I’m not sure how much of a market there will be for this kind of thing when the new gTLDs start to launch in 2013 and sunrise trademark validation will be largely handled by the Trademark Clearinghouse.
Recent Comments
Compliance only kicks in after signing the agreement, so signing means nothing about an ICANN position on this... yet. ... read more
If it's one particular bottle from your cellar and you're not going to promise to give it to anyone else, I think it's f... read more
The other consideration is that a Registry engaged in trademark abuse is subject to the PDDRP which, in short order, can... read more
The proposition at hand is subject to unrealized contingencies. If I say, "Jordyn, if Hoof Hearted wins in the 4th ra... read more
Mike, I appreciate the invitation for the last word, but I believe ICANN has done so: http://www.sbwire.com/press... read more
It is overkill for the IPO to recommend that "[t]he Registry Operator seeking to reserve, self-allocate or release the n... read more
What is happening is making brand owners aware that they are not exclusive owners of a string. The trademark system alre... read more
Typical for Americans. They act like they own the internet! Shame on IANA. I agree 100% with L.T. And why was the decisi... read more
They are really expensive!!! I'll pass. Second level .nz domains are on the way, which may be a better option.... read more
But isn't the bigger issue that trademark owners are being unfairly subjected, i.e. FORCED, to having to do this maybe e... read more