.pet

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Status: Proposed
country: International
Registry: Afilias
Registry Backend: Afilias
Type: Generic
Category: Lifestyle
Priority #: 1229 - Google (Charleston Road Registry Inc.)
1529 - Afilias

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.pet is a proposed TLD in ICANN's New gTLD Program.

Applicants

  1. Afilias
  2. Google (Charleston Road Registry Inc.)[1]

String Confusion Objection

Google submitted a String Confusion Objection to the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR) (a division of the AAA) on March 13, 2013, asserting that .pet and .pets are confusingly similar.[2] .pets' only applicant is Donuts, but a ruling by Richard Page of the ICDR that agrees with objection may put Donuts into the same contention set with current .pet applicants Google and Afilias. This ruling came as a surprise as similar String Confusion Objections for .hotel vs. .hotels and .car vs. .cars did not find the plural form of the strings to be confusingly similar.[3] A second panelist agreed with Google's objection in a report published on September 19, 2013[4]

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