Trademark Appln on CASINO.eu - ACCEPTED!

[Optinom]

I just noticed that the Sunrise TM application on the domain Casino.eu has been ACCEPTED by the registry!

Holy Crap! I wonder how they accept TM on generic names like this!

Here's the details of the applicant. Im sure he's gonna make millions!

Application
Domain Name 	casino
Applied 	07/12/2005 11:00:07.122
Prior Right 	Registered National Trademark
Prior Right Country 	Netherlands
Prior Right on 	CASINO
Applicant
Name 	Zwanenburg Michael
Organisation 	Classic Internet
Language 	Dutch
Address 	President van Rijenlaan 27
4741DG Hoeven
Netherlands
Phone 	+31.165508177
Fax 	+31.165508017
Email 	[email protected]
Registrar technical contacts
Name 	Zwanenburg Michael
Organisation 	Classic Internet
Language 	Dutch
Address 	President van Rijenlaan 27
4741DG Hoeven
Netherlands
Phone 	+31.165508177
Fax 	+31.165508017
Email 	[email protected]
Registrar
Organisation 	Classic Internet
Website 	www.speelclub.nl
Nameservers

 

[fonzie_007]

Bonkers if true... This just goes to show the further ineptitude of Eurid.

 

[Robert Allen]

very poor... I am going to bycott .eu!

 

[Optinom]

I see even Poker.eu's TM application been accepted!

Domain Name   	 poker
Applied 	07/12/2005 11:00:01.712
Prior Right 	Registered National Trademark
Prior Right Country 	Sweden
Prior Right on 	POKER
Applicant
Name 	Yellow Register On Line AB
Language 	Swedish
Address 	Box 1272
501 12 Borås
Sweden
Phone 	+46.33101020
Fax 	+46.33177830
Email 	[email protected]
Registrar technical contacts
Name 	Fredrik Sandgren
Organisation 	Nictrade Internet Identity Provider AB
Language 	Swedish
Address 	Box 22064
504 11 Borås
Sweden
Phone 	+46.33488800
Fax 	+46.33488819
Email 	[email protected]
Registrar
Organisation 	Web County Production AB
Website

There's no second landrush! These have proved to be smarties!

 

[jamesau]

www.speelclub.nl is casino related but still, they can't possible own any TM on that.

 

[Malaysia]

well the .eu owner n the trademark registrant is diffrent?

 

[IAmAllanShore]

further "meh"-ness of the landrush that wasn't.
blah, maybe .xxx will be legit, as the porn industry looks like saints compared to this mess
-Allan :gl:

 

[jmcc]

further "meh"-ness of the landrush that wasn't.
blah, maybe .xxx will be legit, as the porn industry looks like saints compared to this mess
-Allan :gl:

Well Eurid have outdone the porn industry in producing what can only be described as a proper fsckup.

Regards...jmcc

 

[webcom]

This should be called: how to make $xxx,xxx in a single day

 

[nRnF]

And now.....
How many of those messy submissions are the black sheeps ?
As easy as it is to submit in a total messed up registry

EURid.eu statement:
"Please note, however, that EURid is a registry (technical agent), not a judicial, executive or legislative body to be able to determine the legitimacy of a holder's claim to a domain."

So happy submitting and hope nobody adresses it to www.adreu.eurid.eu - LOL

 

[wot]

That and thousands of others, it is a scandal.

 

[binaryman]

I am amazed. I did a trademark search under Benelux ,Europe and even International trademark search and it shows me there are quite a number of trademarks on the words POKER , CASINO , and yes even the word SEX.

 

[jkotinis]

I am amazed. I did a trademark search under Benelux ,Europe and even International trademark search and it shows me there are quite a number of trademarks on the words POKER , CASINO , and yes even the word SEX.

And it's more interesting to see under which class is each TM.

Don't be surprised to see casino under telecommunications or poker under Health products (ex).

Since the whole system is fuzzy but follows some rules , one way to prevent the stability of the system could be to not let the owners of the domains use it for something else than the products or services covered by the TM.

Then we would come up with a site ex sex.eu selling flowers, and casino.eu selling mobiles.

At least it will be funny

 

[Malaysia]

how much to pay to trademark a domain name?

 

[jkotinis]

depends on where . Eu or USA or....? I think it's depending on the country TM office . There is also an issue with the timeframe the TM is registered. For international TMs it takes much more time for your application to be accepted. For national TMs it's faster sometimes.
I think you (we) need an expert on this

The last examples we saw in .eu landrush with the socalled faked TMs from benelux had a starting cost that I think it was around 350 Euros or something.

 

[nRnF]

how much to pay to trademark a domain name?

Domain names can not be trademarked.
They can be at maximum a service mark i think.
A trademark application is done over a given word.

Here comes my example, that some NPers may remember.
Register_com sued me cause I controlled NewRegister_com.
And the intereswting was/is that it was based on their trademarked term "register" wich seems to be enough to threaten nearly any domain registery with that term in the name :ghost:
That time they tried on me.
TMs are not white not black, but way.... grey - lol

But over all IMO many of those .eu based on TM applications are just a fake taking advantage of the mess created at Eurid.
There are at least 3 dutch entities so that faked sucessfully TM in .eu landrush applications.
Eaven more, it seems Eurid does´t eaven care if you inform them.
(Simillar tactics apply for the 100s of bogus .eu registrars thet don`t eaven have a website)

 

[binaryman]

It's one total big sad mess