<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><div style="text-indent: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-indent: -24px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"><span style="line-height: normal;"> Michael,</span></span></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-indent: -24px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><br></span></span></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-indent: -24px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"><span style="line-height: normal;">I cannot agree to your proposed expansion.</span></span></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-indent: -24px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><br></span></span></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-indent: -24px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"><span style="line-height: normal;">"</span></span><span style="text-indent: -24px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">The TMCH Rules should be revised to require Trademark Claims Notices be issued not only for Domain Names that consist of the Exact string of TMCH Trademarks, but also of any Domain Name that includes anywhere in the string the Exact string of TMCH Trademarks."</span></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0px;"><span style="text-indent: -24px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0px;"><span style="text-indent: -24px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0px;"><span style="text-indent: -24px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Not only does this continue the flaky that the inclusion of a trademarked string within a larger domain registration string, is per se confusion.</span></div><div style="text-indent: 0px;"><span style="text-indent: -24px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0px;"><span style="text-indent: -24px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> This would also led to numerous nonsensical notices such as:</span></div><div style="text-indent: 0px;"><span style="text-indent: -24px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0px;"><span style="text-indent: -24px;">The mark: "BOB's Red Barn" triggering notices for any combination of the above.</span></div><br>Sent from my iPad</div><div><br>On 20 Apr 2017, at 19:29, Michael Graham (ELCA) <<a href="mailto:migraham@expedia.com">migraham@expedia.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore"><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The TMCH Rules should be revised to require Trademark Claims Notices be issued not only for Domain Names that consist of the Exact string of TMCH
Trademarks, but also of any Domain Name that includes anywhere in the string the Exact string of TMCH Trademarks</span></div></blockquote></body></html>