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.Law, .Kom, .Tom, .Construction, .Hub: More TLD Trademarks

The “ticking time bomb” in fresh TLDs continues with no work from ICANN.

Fresh top level domain name trademark “frontrunning” continues as 9 more trademarks have been filed related to fresh TLDs.

USM CHINA/HONG KONG LTD filed applications for .Hub, .Tom, Kom, and .Kom. The Kom trademark applications are troubling given VeriSign’s plans to apply for transliterations of .com. And .Tom? Sounds a lot like .com.

Thomas A Brackey of Beverly Hills filed three separate trademark applications for .law. A business called Dot Construction LLC, which has Brackey’s same address, filed to trademark application for .construction.

I think these TLD trademark applications, some of which have slipped through the examiners hands, represent a huge problem for fresh top level domain names. Trademark holders will use them to their advantage.

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