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During its first quarter earnings report, on April 26, 2012, it was confirmed that Verisign would be applying for 14 new gTLDs, 12 of which are foreign language transliterations of .com and .net. They also announced that they had been contracted by 220 new gTLD applicants to provide technical backend services.<ref>[http://domainincite.com/breaking-verisign-has-220-new-gtld-clients/ Breaking: Verisign has 220 new gTLD clients, domainincite.com]</ref><ref>[http://domainnamewire.com/2012/04/26/verisign-is-backend-for-220-new-tld-applicants-and-applies-for-14-itself/ VeriSign is backend for 220 new TLD applicants and applies for 14 itself, domainnamewire.com]</ref> They were the 4th most popular registry services provider, and had been contracted by a total of 12% of applicants.<ref>[http://domainincite.com/9442-the-registry-back-end-market-numbers-are-in The Registry Back end Market Numbers are In, DomainIncite.com]</ref>
During its first quarter earnings report, on April 26, 2012, it was confirmed that Verisign would be applying for 14 new gTLDs, 12 of which are foreign language transliterations of .com and .net. They also announced that they had been contracted by 220 new gTLD applicants to provide technical backend services.<ref>[http://domainincite.com/breaking-verisign-has-220-new-gtld-clients/ Breaking: Verisign has 220 new gTLD clients, domainincite.com]</ref><ref>[http://domainnamewire.com/2012/04/26/verisign-is-backend-for-220-new-tld-applicants-and-applies-for-14-itself/ VeriSign is backend for 220 new TLD applicants and applies for 14 itself, domainnamewire.com]</ref> They were the 4th most popular registry services provider, and had been contracted by a total of 12% of applicants.<ref>[http://domainincite.com/9442-the-registry-back-end-market-numbers-are-in The Registry Back end Market Numbers are In, DomainIncite.com]</ref>
===Program Input===
====Trademark Clearinghouse Model====
In October, 2012 a coalition of the world's most prominent registries, [[Neustar]], [[ARI Registry Services]], Verisign and [[Demand Media]] jointly proposed two models for the mandatory new gTLD Sunrise period and Trademark Claims service involved in the [[Trademark Clearinghouse]] that differ from ICANN’s. To excerpt their letter:
"This proposed model simplifies the ICANN model by decreasing the coupling between the Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) and registries. The model is as follows:
# The TMCH generates and maintains a global public-private key pair and provides the public key to the registrars and registries. This can be done simply by publishing the public key on the TMCH website. This website should be provided over HTTPs using a digital certificate from a reputable certificate authority. The DNS records associated with this website should be protected using DNSSEC. We believe that there are no issues with security of the public key and anyone in the world can have access to it.
# Once the TMCH has authenticated the trademark information provided by the trademark holder, and validated the use requirements for eligibility to participate in sunrise, the TMCH signs the sunrise (trademark) data with its private key. The digitally signed information is referred to as the ‘Signed Mark Data’ (SMD) and is provided to the mark holder. Typically, this would be in the form of a file download from the TMCH website. The SMD includes all of the domain labels (domain names) possible to be used in registrations for the validated trademark (IDN variants excluded).
# As each TLD begins its sunrise phase, the mark holder selects a registrar and provides the registrar with the SMD as part of an application for a name within the applicable sunrise period. The registrar (or its reseller) has the ability, if it chooses to, to validate the information using the TMCH public key and then forward the information to the registry to create the application.
# The registry verifies the signature of the SMD with the public key and verifies that one of the labels within the SMD matches the domain label being registered. The registry may also then verify any other information in the SMD to ensure it is consistent with the registry’s sunrise eligibility policies. The application, or domain name, is then created.
# At the closure of the sunrise round, the registry operator will then make allocations of domain names.
# The registry notifies the TMCH of the registered domain names for the purpose of notifying mark holders about the fact that a name was registered that matches their mark as well as reporting purposes. These notices will be referred to as ‘Notification of Registered Name’ notices (NORN). We believe that a daily upload of registered names to the TMCH is sufficient for the purpose of generating NORN notices.
This solution also works for those that are conducting ‘first come – first served’ style sunrise processes."<ref>[http://domainincite.com/10694-ip-interests-should-join-the-trademark-clearinghouse-meeting-on-tuesday IP interests Should Join The Trademark Clearinghouse Meeting, DomainIncite.com]</ref>
== Security Breach==
== Security Breach==