[registrars] Top .INFO Registrant has over 200 Trademarks from a small sample set

["Bhavin Turakhia" <bhavin.t@directi.com>]

It seems An Owner by the name Plankenstein owns trademarks in over 86
cities/countries/states and has registered them all in .info. Incidentally
the same Registrant also owns 109 other generic nouns and 15 other verbs  in
the generic .INFO name list. This makes a total of 210 generic .info names
registered by Plankenstein

For the complete report compiled from checking over 94000 generic nouns,
15000 verbs and over 8000 major cities, check
http://names.directi.com/dombyregname.php3. You can browse the registered
names by Registrant and see all the Trademark information for each of these
domains.

Next in the Hall of Fame is Another Company by the name StrategicDomains.com
which owns trademarks in over 53 cities/countries/states. This same company
has also another 69 generic nouns and few verbs registered under their name.

Out of 660 names that I found registered in the country/city/state list i
had collected over 274 have been registered by 7 people. Which is over 1/3rd
of the names registered in geography have been trademarked by precisely 7
people. Over 330 names are registered between 17 people exact

The Top number of Registrations in all the categories have been done by the
following people

Plankenstein has registered 86 locations, 109 nouns and 15 verbs
StrategicDomains.com has registered 53 locations, 69 nouns and 2 verbs
Peter Hoffman has registered 39 nouns and 12 verbs
Patrick Nobriga has almost every US State you can think of

I compiled a list of 94000 common nouns, 30000 commonly used verbs and over
8000 major countries, cities, states from around the world. This list was
then arranged by the order of their frequency of usage in english. This was
done using WordNet dictionary.

We than ran a Availbility Search on all these domains and for the ones which
were not available we collected the trademark information. Mind you this was
a compilation of the MOST generic words one could find in this namespace and
the results were astonishing.

Over 33% (1/3rd) of the names were registered by atmost 5-15 Registrants.
Over 50% of the generic names were Regsitered between less than 20
Registrants.

These and other reports are available at http://names.directi.com/.

Best Regards
Bhavin Turakhia
CEO
Directi
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