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Domain Security Company

Organization
Focus New gTLDs
Region NA
Country
  • United States of America
Founded 2009
Website

Domain Security Company LLC (previously known as Asif LLC) is a small, Wisconsin-based start-up that planned on allpying for .bank and .secure in ICANN's new gTLD program.[1] It did not apply.

The company has noted that wanted to implement "ground-breaking encryption technology", and that all applicants for the .bank TLD would be manually verified as legitimate financial institutions.[2]

Trademarks[edit | edit source]

In January, 2012, Domain Secuirty Company, under its original Asif name, managed to obtain from the US Patent and Trademark Office the approval for trademarks for ".secure" and ".bank". The company also apparently became a GoDaddy reseller in order to justify its claim that it was using the terms in commerce. It is well-known that you cannot apply for trademarks for TLDs, and so it is unclear but doubtful that the move will eventually help the company obtain the patented terms. The trademarks were awarded because they claimed that they were being used for "registration services".[3][4]

References[edit | edit source]

Date foundedStores the date that an object was founded, normalized to the "Month DD, YYYY" format.
2009 +
Has ICANN regionAssociates an object with an ICANN-determined Geographic Region.
Has countryAssociates a page with a country. Territory names are extracted from ISO 3166, "Country Codes".
Has focusAssociates an object with a focus theme. Not normalized.
New gTLDs +