Trademark Clearinghouse
The TMCH is a dedicated service to registered trademarks, which will give access to early registration of domains corresponding to your brand and will give you also alerts if a potentially damaging domain related to your brand is registered.
Domains Protected Marks List
The service that proactively blocks registrations of domains containing your Brand. Do not let your reputation in the hands of others: defend your business strategically before it's too late.
Trademark Clearinghouse
We register in advance the domains corresponding to your Brand
Priority registration
Each time a new extension reaches the market, you can apply for domain registration of your corresponding brand before it is available for anyone. Registering at the right time is essential to protect your image.
Dissuasion
Enrollment for TMCH is useful to dissuade others from registering fraudulent domains. When a domain corresponding to your Brand name is going to be purchased, the person who is recording is informed that the rights of that domain are legally protected.
Monitoring
The TMCH service will alert you whenever someone does a domain registration containing your brand: you always control your name, you know what is made of it and you can decide to take any recovery actions if the domain will damage your image.
Domains Protected Marks List
We put your Brand on the list of non-registrable domains by third parties
Multi-year coverage
Every time a new extensionreaches the market, registration of domains containing your brand name will be locked automatically. For five years, only you can use your name in the domains with new TLD, preventing others from making fraudulent registrations.
Defensive strategy
Complementary to the enrollment for the TMCH, the DPML defends your interests among the hundreds of new extensions on the market. The world of new domains is constantly expanding and preventive coverage is what you need to defend the image of your company on the Web.
Quick and inexpensive procedure
With the enrollment for DPML you avoid the cost of registration of all domains that you should manage to protect your Brand. Time is money: thanks to DPML you do not waste time with the registration procedures and you don't forget domains deadlines.
Trademark Clearinghouse Certified Agent
Your questions, our answers.
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What does TMCH mean?
TMCH stands for Trademark Clearinghouse.
It is the database authorized by ICANN which contains trademarks registered worldwide. Created during the marketing of new domains (new gTLDs), it is the most important brand protection service in the world about new domains. -
What does DPML mean?
DPML stands for Domains Protected Marks List. You can access this service only if you have registered your Brand in TMCH database. This service allows you to stop the registration of your domain in the new extensions that are periodically released on the market.
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I have a domain with a generic or geographical extension, can I use DPML and TMCH and services?
No, these services are dedicated only to domains registered in the new extensions (new gTLDs). For example, if you have a domain name with .com .net, .org etc., you cannot buy TMCH nor DPML for that domain.
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I do not have a registered trademark, can I use DPML and TMCH services?
No. To use the DPML service, you must first be registered with your Brand in TMCH database, and enrolling your Brand in TMCH database requires that the Brand is registered.
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