.sport
| Status: | Proposed |
| Type: | Genericl |
| Category: | Sport |
| Priority #: | 384 - Famous Four Media (dot Sport Limited) 1067 - SportAccord |
.sport is a proposed new gTLD in ICANN's new gTLD program.
Current Applicants
- SportAccord, is a known as a Community Application, that has backing from the International Olympic Committee. SportAccord has also announced that its registry services provider would be CORE.[1]
- Famous Four Media (Dot Sport Limited), has applied for 61 applications.[2] SprtAccord filed a Community Objection against this application.[3]
The portfolio applicant, Donuts, has applied for the similar string, .sports.
SportAccord
The community application comes from Sport Accord, and it has engaged the International Sports Federations and the International Olympic Committee to comprise a Policy Advisory Board (PAB). "[R]egistrants in .sport must be recognized performers, organizers, promoters or supporters of federated Sport, or belong to categories of registrants recognized by the .sport Policy Advisory Board (PAB)." The Olympic Committee has previously been involved in discussions in ICANN regarding universal protections for its trademarks across all new gTLDs.
String Confusion Objection
SportAccord won a String Confusion Objection it submitted to the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR), asserting that .sport and .sports were confusingly similar. Donuts was the only applicant for .sports and will now be in contention for .sport as panelist M Scott Donahey sided with SportAccord. The decision was made in part because the word "sport" is also a collective noun, making it synonymous in some cases with the word "sports."[4]
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