Another TLD Frontrunner Joins Game with .Hawaii, .Fish, and More

Saturday, September 10th, 2011

What Box? Holdings files four trademark applications for top level domains.

I’ve written numerous times about people applying for trademarks with the U.S. Patent and Trademark office for new top level domain names.

Here’s the latest entrant into the frontrunning game: Beverly Hills company What Box? Holdings, LLC.

The company just filed applications for .Hawaii, .Foundation, .Fish, and .Charter.

Of course the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office won’t grant a trademark on a top level domain, nor will this person be able to apply for .Hawaii without the blessing of the state.

Meanwhile, Eric Doerr of Delaware and Greg Disler of Pennsylvania continue to busily file applications. In addition to their previous applications, Disler has applied for .page, .rent, .city, .mail, .dot, .tix, .menu, .move, .franchise, .lease, and .fit.

Further Reading:

  1. Another Day, Another New TLD Trademark Application: .Store
  2. What Box? Adds 3 More TLDs to Trademark List
  3. Hawaii cybersquatting law one of the worst

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Comments

  1. Joe
    September 10th, 2011 | 12:03 pm

    How much wasted money.

  2. Gnanes
    September 10th, 2011 | 12:54 pm

    Patent and TM trolls.

  3. Jean Guillon
    September 10th, 2011 | 12:55 pm

    There is a guy doing the same in france.

  4. page howe
    September 10th, 2011 | 12:58 pm

    .page

    i do not remember giving my permission, dang and i was hoping………..

    page howe

  5. Joe
    September 10th, 2011 | 1:15 pm

    @Page

    You better sue them :)

  6. Meyer
    September 10th, 2011 | 2:40 pm

    Page,
    Don’t feel bad.

    .howe is still available

  7. Mansour
    September 10th, 2011 | 4:41 pm

    @Andrew on what passes you say.
    “Of course the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office won’t grant a trademark on a top level domain” if apple owns all apples amazon owns the river and everything comes with it godaddy owns Daddy.

  8. Andrew Allemann
    September 11th, 2011 | 10:10 am

    @ Mansour – none of those trademark are for a TLD.

  9. Steve M
    September 11th, 2011 | 1:11 pm

    Is this a great country, or what.

  10. FarmerJohn
    September 11th, 2011 | 7:06 pm

    .city

    Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk.

  11. Andrew Allemann
    September 14th, 2011 | 4:02 pm

    Hey Page, if .page bothers you, you should know that What Box? just filed for .kids.

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