Defensive registrations are designed for the owners of trademarks who want to block out the registration of names that conflict with their intellectual property. Defensive Registrations are valid for a duration of ten years and can then be renewed.
A Defensive Registration
- Blocks any registration that contains the specified trademark, both on the new second level registrations, as well as third level registrations.
- Perfect for a company or product name that you wish to entirely block from registration on .name
- Ideal to protect from abuse as the .name second level opens up for registrations, e.g. brandnames.name, brandsucks.name, etc …