An individual from Minnesota, operating the domain CoinCollecting.com, has filed an application for the registration of the matching mark, COINCOLLECTING.COM, at the USPTO.
The application cites May 1, 2021 as the date of first use in commerce, for the following products/services:
Collectable coins; Collectable monetary coin sets; Collectible coins; Collectible monetary coin sets; Commemorative coins; Gold bullion coins; Monetary coin sets for collecting purposes; Non-monetary coins; Silver bullion coins; Souvenir pressed coins.
Registered in 1996, the domain CoinCollecting.com proclaims that coin collecting is “the hobby of kings.”
The domain appears to have been sold sometime after 2014, when it was in the possession of Domain Holdings. There is no recorded sale at NameBio.
Applying for the registration of matching marks is an ongoing trend among owners of generic domain names, following the decision by SCOTUS on the Booking.com trademark application.
Since then, dozens of generic domain names have been applied to be registered as trademarks, inclusive of the TLD.
As of January 5th, 2021, BOOKING.COM is a registered trademark with the USPTO.
Will these applications become the new norm? Watch this video from NamesCon Online 2020.
