.express
| Status: | Proposed |
| Registry: | Donuts |
| Registry Backend: | Donuts |
| Type: | Generic |
| Category: | Technology |
| Priority #: | 1186 - Express LLC 1664 - Donuts (Sea Sunset, LLC) |
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.express is a proposed new TLD in ICANN's new gTLD expansion program.
Applicants
- Donuts (Sea Sunset, LLC)- The company filed for 307 new gTLDs. Donuts created a company for each TLD application, including Sea Sunset LLC to submit its .express application. It invested $56 million for applications fees alone. The company partnered with Demand Media to serve as its back-end registry service provider.[1] This applicant submitted a Public Interest Commitment, which can be downloaded here.
- Express LLC- Ms. Michelle Melendez is listed as the contact person in the application. [2]
Objections
An official Legal Rights Objection was filed by the applicant Express LLC, against fellow applicant Donuts.[3]
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."[4]