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Appearance
Status: | Proposed |
country: | International |
Type: | Generic |
Category: | Commerce |
Priority #: | 279 - XYZ.COM LLC 500 - Starbucks (HK) Limited 729 - Global Top Level ApS 1083 - Amazon 1560 - One.com A/S 1565 - Donuts (Grand Turn, LLC) |
More information: |
.now is a proposed TLD in ICANN's New gTLD Program.
Applicants
- Amazon
- Donuts (Grand Turn, LLC) - This applicant submitted a Public Interest Commitment, which can be downloaded here.
- Global Top Level ApS
- One.com A/S
- Starbucks (HK) Limited
- XYZ.COM LLC[1]
Objection
An official Legal Rights Objection was filed by the applicant Starbucks (HK) Limited, against all fellow applicants.[2]
A Legal Rights Objection, as defined by the ICANN approved mediator, WIPO, is when, "third parties may file a formal objection to an application on several grounds, including, for trademark owners and Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs) [..] When such an objection is filed, an independent panel (comprised of one or three experts) will determine whether the applicant’s potential use of the applied-for gTLD would be likely to infringe [..] the objector’s existin