.coach
| Status: | Proposed |
| Registry: | Donuts |
| Registry Backend: | Donuts |
| Type: | Generic Brand gTLD |
| Category: | Lifestyle |
| Priority #: | 205 - Donuts (Koko Island, LLC) |
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.coach is a proposed new TLD in ICANN's new gTLD program.
Current Applicant
- Donuts (Koko Island, LLC), filed for 307 TLDs, each via different LLCs. The company is applying for .coach as a generic TLD. Daniel Schindler, EVP for Marketing & Sales at Donuts is the contact person in the application. [1] Their application is a non-brand related application.
Previous Applicant
- Coach, Inc., a well-known American designer and manufacturer of the luxury handbag Coach and other fashion products. The company filed its application for the string as a Brand gTLD. [2]
Coach, Inc withdrew their application for the string in September 2014.[3]
Objections
An official Legal Rights Objection was filed by the applicant Coach Inc., against fellow applicant Donuts. The objection failed.[4]
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 existing trademark, or IGO name or acronym."[5]
References
- ↑ Donuts Inc eye popping list of 307 new top-level domains
- ↑ Coach Company Profile
- ↑ Donuts Beats Trademark Owner to .coach by Kevin Murphy, DomainIncite; Retrieved 12 Sept 2014
- ↑ LRO Cases, WIPO.int
- ↑ LRO, WIPO.int Retrieved 25 March 2013