Trademark Claims Recommendation #3 The Working Group recommends that the current requirement for only sending the Claims Notice before a registration is completed be maintained. The Working Group also recognizes that there may be operational issues with presenting the Claims Notice to registrants who pre-registered domain names, due to the current 48-hour expiration period of the Claims Notice. The Working Group therefore recommends that the Implementation Review Team consider ways in which ICANN org can work with registrars to address this implementation issue. |
Context:
The Working Group generally agreed that when there is a Claims Period and the issuance of a Claims Notice is required (see Trademark Claims Question #2), the Claims Notice should be sent to potential registrants, who are attempting to register domain names that are matches to entries in the TMCH, at some point before the domain name registration is completed.
The Working Group noted challenges reported by some Registrars regarding sending the Claims Notice for pre-order names, due to the current 48-hour expiration period of the Claims Notice. Therefore, the Working Group recommends the future IRT considering ways to address this issue.
