RE: [wg-c] Application Requirements

["William X. Walsh" <william@userfriendly.com>]

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This is a second level domain.  The USPTO's granting of a trademark for this
domain does not lend any legal sanction or authority to the claim of the
registry to this mark.

There are many applications for .web domains as trademarks.  Most of been
either rejected, abandoned, or withdrawn.  Several of them are new, and seem to
have all been filed by the same 2 or 3 people.  A small number appear to have
been granted.

But again, none of this has anything to do with trademarking a top level
domain, and it doesn't infer any legal right to the TLD by the webtld.com
registry.

I doubt these .web domain trademarks would stand up to any serious challenge or
opposition, and I really believe them to have been made out of ignorance,
something that the USPTO admits they have when it comes to internet related
trademarks many times.  


On 26-Mar-2000 Christopher Ambler wrote:
> The only thing I can point out to you is the trademark currently
> active for "my.web"
> 
> I am constrained from pointing you in the right direction regarding
> any conclusions that you can/should/might want to draw.
> 
> -- 
> Christopher Ambler
> chris@the.web
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-wg-c@dnso.org [mailto:owner-wg-c@dnso.org]On Behalf Of
> Attyross@aol.com
> Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2000 3:04 PM
> To: rmeyer@mhsc.com; wg-c@dnso.org
> Subject: Re: [wg-c] Application Requirements
> 
> 
>> they have ALREADY issued TM status to some TLDs ...
> 
> Any specific examples of US registered trademarks that are also TLDs?

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