Trademark Claims Period: 13 September 2023 to 17 January 2024
To be fair, .box domains didn't have that much noise attached to them and 4 months is a relatively short period, but if this possible vulnerability had known then it's a little more negligent.
Best case scenario for them seem to be that they pay an undisclosed amount to a "random" that got lucky and bought that domain.
I find it interesting how a decision that may have looked totally innoxious something like 15 years before, was not future proof enough, I for one back then would not have imagined that ICANN would start registering every single TLD under the sun.
I am no expert in this subject
https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/program-status/sunrise-claims-...
But it seems that they had
Trademark Claims Period: 13 September 2023 to 17 January 2024
To be fair, .box domains didn't have that much noise attached to them and 4 months is a relatively short period, but if this possible vulnerability had known then it's a little more negligent.
Best case scenario for them seem to be that they pay an undisclosed amount to a "random" that got lucky and bought that domain.
I find it interesting how a decision that may have looked totally innoxious something like 15 years before, was not future proof enough, I for one back then would not have imagined that ICANN would start registering every single TLD under the sun.