ICANN To Create Trademark Clearinghouse
The group that manages the Internet's address system approved a proposal that would create a database of trademarks aimed at improving their protection on the Internet, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers announced Friday.
The Trademark Clearinghouse is expected to serve "as a central repository for information to be authenticated, stored, and disseminated" relating to the rights of trademark owners.
"In forming this trademark clearinghouse, we've listened to our community about providing trademark protection," ICANN board Chairman Peter Dengate Thrush said in a statement following the nonprofit corporation's meeting this week in Nairobi, Kenya. "We've also adopted an extremely rapid process by which people or organizations can challenge trademark infringement."
The board also rejected a proposal to implement an "expression of interest," a pre-registration process for those wishing to apply for new generic Internet addresses, also known as domain names. Under procedures it previously approved, ICANN plans to expand the number of generic top-level domain names from the current list of 21, which include .com, .net, and .org, and could include almost any word in most languages.
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