Domain Registry Co.’s Bid For .Sucks TM Fails At Fed. Circ.
By Andrew Karpan (February 2, 2022, 7:22 PM EST) — The Federal Circuit on Wednesday said the domain registry operator behind the “.Sucks” websites can’t secure a trademark on the word as a website domain, affirming an initial rejection from the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.
The latest ruling was a loss for Vox Populi Registry Ltd. — a company that emerged in 2015 amid a broader effort by ICANN, or the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, to offer new domain extensions beyond “.com” and other familiar names. The company sells so-called generic top-level domains, or gTLD, which can be appended to any other term to form an online…
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