Athens Plans .Athens Top Level Domain Name
Tuesday, September 28th, 2010
Municipality wants .athens, but may run into challenges with trademark application.
Add Athens to the list of municipalities that want to register their own top level domain names.
I haven’t seen anything on the web about the city’s plans, but it filed two trademark applications with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for “.Athens” and “dot .athens” back in February. I hadn’t seen these yet because the original applications didn’t list domain names as part of the goods and services for the marks.
When originally filed, the trademarks alluded generally to “telecommunications”, “education”, and “scientific and technological services”.
The trademark examiners suggested changes to the classes and the marks were amended last week.
Tuesday, September 28th, 2010
Municipality wants .athens, but may run into challenges with trademark application.
Add Athens to the list of municipalities that want to register their own top level domain names.
I haven’t seen anything on the web about the city’s plans, but it filed two trademark applications with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for “.Athens” and “dot .athens” back in February. I hadn’t seen these yet because the original applications didn’t list domain names as part of the goods and services for the marks.
When originally filed, the trademarks alluded generally to “telecommunications”, “education”, and “scientific and technological services”.
The trademark examiners suggested changes to the classes and the marks were amended last week.
