<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">FYI -- for those who haven't seen this blog:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.thedomains.com/2017/02/01/the-trademark-clearinghouse-worked-so-well-one-company-got-24-new-gtld-using-the-famous-trademark-the/" class="">https://www.thedomains.com/2017/02/01/the-trademark-clearinghouse-worked-so-well-one-company-got-24-new-gtld-using-the-famous-trademark-the/</a><br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px;"><div class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><div class=""><header class="entry-header"><h1 class="entry-title" itemprop="headline">The Trademark ClearingHouse Worked So Well One Company Got 24 new gTLD using The Famous Trademark “The”</h1><p class="entry-meta"><time class="entry-time" itemprop="datePublished" datetime="2017-02-01T22:20:27-05:00">February 1, 2017</time> by <a href="https://www.thedomains.com/author/michael-berkens/" title="Posts by Michael Berkens" class="url author fn" rel="author">Michael Berkens</a> <span class="entry-comments-link"><a href="https://www.thedomains.com/2017/02/01/the-trademark-clearinghouse-worked-so-well-one-company-got-24-new-gtld-using-the-famous-trademark-the/#comments" class="">5 Comments</a></span> </p></header><div class="entry-content" itemprop="text"><p class=""><a href="http://www.trademark-clearinghouse.com/" target="_blank" class="">The Trademark ClearingHouse (TMCH)</a>
which was set up/ contracted by ICANN to protect those famous worldwide
brand names from abuse by those nasty domain name squatters resulted in
a whole new industry.</p><p class="">Those playing the TMCH for their own benefit to get first jump at new
gTLD domain names to get registered in Sunrise ahead of all other under
common words like “the”</p><p class="">Actually there maybe no better example than those domain names
obtained on the world-famous trademarks as of the word”the”, which <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_common_words_in_English" class="">is the most used word in the English language</a>.</p><p class="">The world-famous trademark for the word “the” was obtained by
Goallover Limited of London who according to DomainTools.com owns an
amazing amount of domain names approaching nearly 100, but was able to
get all of the following new gTLD’s using their globally well-known
trademark on the word “the” under the ICANN trademark clearinghouse
rules which allows them to obtain the domain names ahead of all other
applicants.</p><p class="">Of course the company could have had obtained even more “the” new
gTLD domain names in Sunrise but apparently did not apply for more.</p><p class="">Somehow the company doesn’t appear to own the domain name The.Com</p><p class="">For all Trademark Holders its nice to know the world is a safer place:</p><p class="">the.car<br class="">
the.career<br class="">
the.cars<br class="">
the.casino<br class="">
the.doctor<br class="">
the.earth<br class="">
the.foundation<br class="">
the.furniture<br class="">
the.game<br class="">
the.group<br class="">
the.ltd<br class="">
the.mba<br class="">
the.pub<br class="">
the.report<br class="">
the.run<br class="">
the.school<br class="">
the.services<br class="">
the.storage<br class="">
the.tools<br class="">
the.university<br class="">
the.watch<br class="">
the.wine</p></div></div></span>
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