.mobi TLD skullduggery at eurodns.com

[tjrie]

Regarding the new .mobi TLD. The sunrise for 'industry' just ended last week and the sunrise for 'trademark holders' just began yesterday. However, someone has nabbed some of the most desireable non-industry and non-trademark domains eg: restaurants.mobi and movies.mobi. You can view the parked www.restaurants.mobi right now, it's parked at eurodns.com.
Looks like major cheating.

 

[cambkey]

its for a trademark of restaurants in Belgium (sound familiar?! although at least this one is a year old)

Domain ID30197-MOBI
Domain Name:RESTAURANTS.MOBI
Created On:12-Jun-2006 14:00:48 UTC
Expiration Date:12-Jun-2008 14:00:48 UTC
Trademark Name:restaurants
Trademark Country:EU
Trademark Number:003555463
Date Trademark Applied For:2003-11-26
Date Trademark Registered:2005-07-19
www.resto.be

 

[tjrie]

Yes it was registered on the first day of trademark sunrise by an internet marketing firm out of Belgium. They have a trademark on the word 'restaurants'. The firm is DreamInvest. How can you trademark a common word!

 

[elmister]

maybe because the word 'restaurants' is not a common word... in french (i don't speak french, so i don't know how to say restaurant in french)

 

[Fredo]

well restaurant is a French word... restaurants is its plurial.

 

[Dale Hubbard]

This TM is for a graphic representation, not for the word itself:

http://oami.europa.eu/CTMOnline/RequestManager/en_DetailCTM_NoReg

Crazy stuff.