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		pkfrank on May 21, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amazon Loses Bid For .Amazon Domain I've been out of the "domain game" for a while, but aren't all of these TM-holders basically allowed to "claim" their names during the "Sunrise" period? That seems quite the opposite of a land grab: opening up early to avoid speculators snapping up copyrighted terms.

verelo on May 21, 2014 | [–]

Unfortunatly the trademark rights are not extended to TLD's so this is a bit of an exception. That does apply to domains in general however.

dijit on May 21, 2014 | | [–]

sunrise doesn't apply to the actual gTLD, only with $something.TLD

so, I hold the trademark Firebox. I can use it to get Firebox.london or Firebox.ecommerce

but not .firebox

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