Vol 7 No 1 - Roger Williams University School of Law

fee-based service for businesses to submit trademarkclaims before the application process is opened. Underthis service, domain-name applicants will be notified of atrademark owner’s claim when they submit anapplication for a claimed name and, if they decide to goahead with the registration, the business submitting theclaim will be notified of the registration and will be givena window of opportunity to challenge the registrationusing an administrative dispute resolution procedure.2. Domain Name Application and Selection. Beginningin July through late September, .biz will open theapplication process for businesses. Businesses will submittheir applications through registrars; these applicationswill be randomly selected in batches and awarded.Businesses can submit an unlimited number ofapplications but there will be a $2.00 fee for eachapplication for a .biz name.3. .biz Begins Operations. In October, .biz names thathave been awarded will become operational. .biz will usea Restriction Dispute Resolution Process (RDRP) similarto the ICANN UDRP process to resolve challenges relatedto the business-only restricted nature of the registry. 373Afilias (.info):1. Sunrise Period. Beginning in late June and endingin late July, Afilias will offer a 30 day “sunrise” periodduring which anyone with a registered nationaltrademark can apply through a registrar for a .infodomain name corresponding to the trademark.Trademark data will be provided at the time ofapplication and the term of the domain name registrationwill be for at least 5 years. To assure fair and equalaccess during the sunrise period, registrars will firstcollect applications and deliver them to Afilias. Afiliaswill then implement a multi-round batch processingsystem in which it will randomly select applications fromeach registrar’s batch. The World Intellectual Property373. Id.