A good way to waste $325.
The guy who just recently wasted his money filing a trademark application for .music is at it again.
Joseph Walker DBA ExtraWeb Ent just filed trademark applications for .nyc and .shop.
New York City has already announced plans for the .nyc domain name and has selected a registry partner to bring it to market.
Numerous companies want to bring .shop to market as well.
Both of these applications will be summarily rejected by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
But I’ll give some clever points to Mr. Walker for filing this as if the marks are in use in commerce already. He attached a screenshot of supposed web sites at register.shop and search.nyc to his applications.
Strange. I can’t get either of those sites to load.
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At $100 a pop, I’d submit an Expression of Interest for a bunch of new top level domain names.
Tomorrow ICANN’s board will consider accepting “expressions of interest” for new top level domains from applicants. On DNW Radio a couple weeks ago, Minds + Machines founder Antony Van Couvering suggested that these expressions of interest require a $55,000 payment. I agree that a substantial fee should be required to make it predictive of actual applications.
Others have suggested a lower fee, such as $100. At that price point, count me in. I want to throw my hat in the ring for a handful of new TLDs, just for the fun of it. Here are 8 TLDs I want and why.
.Catholic – The Pope won’t be excited about this. But think of the marketing opportunity! I’ll charge $1,000 per domain, which includes forgiveness for one sin or a marriage annulment.
.Things – The .sport Policy Advisory Council thinks no one should be able to apply for a TLD that falls “below” .sport, such as .basketball. So I’ll apply for .things and say .sport shouldn’t exist. I figure I’ll save .sport a lot of wasted money, anyway. Who would really want a .sport domain name?
.xxx – I’m just pushing along the arbitration process here.
.Comm – This stands for communists. Seriously, that’s the only reason I want one of these.
.Mobile – Can .mobi fight this?
.Park – All domains under .park will be parked.
.Advertising – Uh oh, here come AOL’s lawyers.
.You – After seeing how much fun people had thinking up names like Screw.me, I think this TLD will be a hit.
Feel free to add your own.
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