Since Donuts is calling into question the Flowers.delivery example (and there are other TLDs operated by Donuts where Flowers.TLD is registered by 1-800-Flowers.com), let's pick a registry not operated by Donuts, namely .miami (operated by Minds+Machines). Timeline of Launch: https://comlaude.com/news/new-gtld-updates-miami-launch-schedule Sunrise Period Closed: 18-Sep-15 (16:00 UTC) Sunrise Type: End Date Sunrise (not first-come, first served) **(implies all domains got created after sunrise, but before launch of General Availability) General Availability: 02-Oct-15 (16:00 UTC) Please note that there will be no Landrush phase for this TLD. https://whois.domaintools.com/flowers.miami Creation Date: 2015-09-28T17:38:01Z (registrant: 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, INC.) NB: Notice that the date above is *before* General Availability, implying it was registered in Sunrise. Oldest WHOIS history at DomainTools is a few days later: https://research.domaintools.com/research/whois-history/search/?q=flowers.mi... Domain ID: 1095074-MMd1 Domain Name: flowers.miami WHOIS Server: whois-dub.mm-registry.com Updated Date: 2015-10-01T14:07:07Z Creation Date: 2015-09-28T17:38:01Z Registry Expiry Date: 2016-09-28T17:38:01Z Sponsoring Registrar: CSC Corporation Service Company Sponsoring Registrar IANA ID: 299 Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited Registrant ID: 34106-Minds Registrant Name: Domain Administrator Registrant Organization: 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, INC. Registrant Street: One Old Country Road, Suite 500 Registrant City: Carle Place Registrant State/Province: NY Registrant Postal Code: 11514 Registrant Country: US Registrant Phone: +1.5162376000 Registrant Phone Ext: Registrant Fax: +1.5162376101 Registrant Fax Ext: Registrant Email: domainadmin@1800flowers.com If we compare the creation date of flowers.miami, it's the same (give or take a few seconds) as Google.miami: https://whois.domaintools.com/google.miami Creation Date: 2015-09-28T17:38:25Z or Yahoo.miami: https://whois.domaintools.com/yahoo.miami Creation Date: 2015-09-28T17:38:28Z or Adsense.miami: https://whois.domaintools.com/adsense.miami Creation Date: 2015-09-28T17:37:57Z All of which were presumably registered via Sunrise. I'm not going to go through all 1000+ TLDs to check Flowers.TLD (I'd quickly use up all my DomainTools limits! Plus, I have a life.) But, 1-800-Flowers.com also owns Flowers.Yokohama https://whois.domaintools.com/flowers.yokohama and that's not operated by Donuts or by Minds+Machines (it's by GMO Registry). Its creation date is 2014-08-05T06:40:00.0Z whereas the landrush was a day later: https://ie.godaddy.com/help/about-yokohama-domain-names-11994 "From August 6, 2014 at 3:00 UTC to September 5, 2014 at 14:59 UTC, customers can purchase .yokohama domain names at a premium price." Flowers.yokohama has the same creation date/time (to the exact second) as: Google.Yokohama: https://whois.domaintools.com/google.yokohama Creation Date: 2014-08-05T06:40:00.0Z or Yahoo.Yokohama https://whois.domaintools.com/yahoo.yokohama Creation Date: 2014-08-05T06:40:00.0Z and these would clearly be sunrise registrations. Is there a (Tunisian) trademark of 1-800-Flowers.com for "FLOWERS" in the TMCH? If so, is it sunrise eligible? If so, are they using it to get Flowers.TLD before anyone else can, in sunrise periods? If ICANN wants to subsidize higher limits for a DomainTools account, and give me a per diem, I can find more examples, if the above isn't compelling enough evidence. Or, we can open up the TMCH and see what's hiding there. Sincerely, George Kirikos 416-588-0269 http://www.leap.com/ On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 9:27 AM, George Kirikos <icann@leap.com> wrote:
So, if Flowers.delivery *wasn't* a Sunrise registration, then if we examined the TMCH we wouldn't find any recordals (past or present) for "FLOWERS" by 1-800-Flowers.com that were sunrise eligible??
Sincerely,
George Kirikos 416-588-0269 http://www.leap.com/
On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 9:24 AM, George Kirikos <icann@leap.com> wrote:
How was it created before EAP began, then? Yahoo.delivery and USPS.delivery weren't sunrise either?? (same creation dates/times, give or take a few seconds)
Sincerely,
George Kirikos 416-588-0269 http://www.leap.com/
On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 9:15 AM, Jon Nevett <jon@donuts.co> wrote:
George:
All I'm saying is that flowers.delivery wasn't a sunrise registration. I'm not commenting on your other points.
Jon
On Apr 11, 2017, at 9:06 AM, George Kirikos <icann@leap.com> wrote:
Hello,
On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 8:52 AM, Jon Nevett <jon@donuts.co> wrote:
That one is not a smoking gun. It is a legitimate registration by a legitimate entity.
So, let me get this straight. Are you saying that if my company went out and registered a TM in some obscure jurisdiction like Tunisia, for the brand MATH, in the goods and services of "math education", used that mark in the TMCH to register MATH.TLD domains ahead of every other competitor in the math industry during sunrise, and then redirected the resulting domains to Math.com, that would be a "legitimate registration by a legitimate entity"?
I think most people would say "George, you gamed the system." and rightly so.
Sincerely,
George Kirikos 416-588-0269 http://www.leap.com/