Full info forMATRIX
| Application ID | 1-1301-37991 |
| Status | Withdrawn |
| Prioritization Number | 1498 |
| TLD (#13) | MATRIX |
| IDN Translation (#14b) | -- |
| Applicant (#1) | L'Oréal |
| Website (#5) | http://www.loreal.com |
| Application Type | |
| Type | Standard |
| Contested | no |
| Contested Numbers | 1 |
| GAC Early Warning | no |
| Cultural, Linguistic or Religious | no |
| dotBrand | yes |
| Trademark Class A | class 3 (cleaning, cosmetics) |
| Trademark Class B | |
| Trademark Class C | |
| Industry Keyword | beauty |
| Remark | L’Oréal is a leading global consumer products company serving the needs of consumers around the world with 23 brands in five different segments. Mattrix is one such brand. |
| Availability Data | |
| Sunrise Period: | fromunknown tounknown |
| Landrush Period: | fromunknown tounknown |
| GoLive: | unknown |
| Registration Policy | |
| Restricted | yes |
| Restrictions | dotbrand |
| Backend Provider | Verisign |
| Registry Website | |
| Keyword | |
| Keyword | no |
| English Meaning | -- |
| Appeal Ranking | 0 |
| Appeal Remark | Reserved for company and affiliate use only. |
| English | not applicable |
| Spanish | not applicable |
| Portuguese | not applicable |
| French | not applicable |
| Italian | not applicable |
| German | not applicable |
| Dutch | not applicable |
| Swedish | not applicable |
| Danish | not applicable |
| Mandarin | not applicable |
| Russian | not applicable |
| Location | |
| Region | Europe |
| Country | France |
| Community (#19) | -- |
| Geographic (#21a) | -- |
| Geographic Category | -- |
| IDN | |
| IDN (#14) | No |
| A-label (#14a) | -- |
| Translation (#14b) | -- |
| Script Code (#14d) | -- |
| Allows ASCII | yes |
| Applicant | |
| Applicant (#1) | L'Oréal |
| Website (#5) | http://www.loreal.com |
| Applicant Address (#2) | 41, rue Martre Clichy 92117 France [FR] |
| Applicant Phone (#3) | +33147567991 |
| Applicant Fax (#4) | +33147567032 |
| Legal Form (#8) | Corporation |
| Exchange Symbol (#9a) | Euronext |
| Parent Company (#9b) | |
| Joint Venture Partners (#9c) | |
| Primary Contact | |
| Name (#6) | Mr. Georges-Edouard DIAS |
| Title (#6) | SVP, Digital Business |
| e-mail (#6) | gedias@loreal.com |
| Secondary Contact | |
| Name (#7) | Joshua Bourne |
| Title (#7) | Managing Partner |
| e-mail (#7) | Bourne.LL@fairwindspartners.com |
| Mission / Purpose (#18a) | |
| 18.1 MISSION & PURPOSE 18.1.1 THE L’ORÉAL FAMILY OF BRANDS L’Oréal is a leading global consumer products company serving the needs of consumers around the world with 23 brands in five different segments. L’Oréal has 68,900 employees and its products are available for purchase online and in stores and outlets in over 130 countries. L’Oréal content is available across a range of TLDs, including but not limited to: .COM, .CA, .CZ, .CO.UK, .FI, .FR, .DE, .IT, .NL, .NO, .PL, .RU, .ES, .TR, .HU, .EU, .AR, .BR, .MX, .HK, and .COM.AU. L’Oréal has an extensive global family of brands and business units that prominently incorporate and make use of various L’Oréal trademarks. These brands are listed below. For more information, see http:⁄⁄www.loreal-finance.com⁄eng⁄annual-report. I. Consumer Products L’Oréal Paris Garnier Maybelline New York SoftSheen-Carson CCB Paris II. Professional Products L’Oréal Professional Kérastase Redken Matrix Mizani Pureology Shu Uemura Art of Hair III. Luxury Products Lancôme Biotherm Helena Rubinstein Kiehl’s Shu Uemura Giorgio Armani Ralph Lauren Cacharel Viktor & Rolf Diesel YSL Beauté Maison Martin Margiela Stella McCartney IV. Active Cosmetics Vichy La Roche Posay Innéov Skinceuticals Sanoflore Roger&Gallet V. The Body Shop Through the richness of its portfolio of international brands, and its expertise in all major distribution channels, L’Oréal has always aimed to offer the widest possible choice to consumers. 2010 marked the beginning of a new phase of conquest to ensure that the greatest number of people have access to its 23 global brands. As the Internet continues to connect consumers with brands in the global digital marketplace, an innovative digital strategy will lie at the epicenter of L’Oréal’s mission to reach two billion customers in the coming years. The .MATRIX gTLD has the potential to be a central part of this strategy, and will allow L’Oréal to deliver information, goods, and services to the online marketplace in a secure environment. 18.1.2 MISSION AND PURPOSE OF THE .MATRIX GTLD Through a unified corporate approach, L’Oréal intends to submit 9 gTLD applications for the branded strings .LOREAL, .欧莱雅, .GARNIER, .KERASTASE, .KIEHLS, .LANCOME, .MAYBELLINE, .MATRIX and .REDKEN. The intended future mission and purpose of the .MATRIX gTLD is to serve as a trusted, hierarchical, and intuitive namespace provided by L’Oréal and its qualified subsidiaries and affiliates, to L’Oréal customers, consumers, and Internet users. L’Oréal will be the entity to file this application and bring the .MATRIX gTLD to market. Although ICANN has not specifically recognized a .BRAND gTLD specification in the current round, it is widely anticipated in the brand community that this will become a specialty subset of gTLDs. The .MATRIX gTLD is intended to be one of those .BRAND gTLDs, with the goal of protecting L’Oréal’s online presence and identity, expanding its marketing and promotion efforts, providing a secure channel for online products and services, and offering a platform through which to consolidate many of the intellectual property activities of L’Oréal. L’Oréal intends to initially limit registration and use of domain names within the .MATRIX gTLD to L’Oréal and its qualified subsidiaries and affiliates. This initial limited use will allow L’Oréal to establish its operations and achieve full sustainability. This limited distribution coupled with the other requirements set forth in Specification 9 of the template Registry Agreement is intended to exempt L’Oréal from its annual Code of Conduct Compliance requirements. L’Oréal currently plans a four-stage rollout for the .MATRIX gTLD. The dates of these stages are subject to change depending upon business, strategic, and industry factors. 1. Stage One The initial stage of implementation of the gTLD will involve L’Oréal registering a limited number of .MATRIX second-level domain names. This initial use will provide L’Oréal’s IT and security personnel the time to run a number of tests to ensure seamless and secure access using the .MATRIX gTLD domain names, interoperability with various software and Web-based applications, and unbroken and secure use of all names. This initial allocation will also allow the appropriate L’Oréal staff to coordinate with the internal and external staff responsible for the delegation and setup phases of the .MATRIX gTLD to ensure a proper transition from delegation to full operation. 2. Stage Two Once all testing has been successfully completed, L’Oréal will begin allocating domain names in .MATRIX for more widespread internal corporate use. During this same period of time, L’Oréal will begin evaluating strategies to potentially migrate traffic away from its current patchwork network of second-level domain names, which are registered in a variety of TLDs, to L’Oréal’s new family of gTLDs. It is in Stage Two that L’Oréal will evaluate expanding the operations of the gTLD to permit registration by other registrants such as licensees or other strategic partners. Should an assessment of its expansion strategy lead to a decision to extend registration rights to other parties, this expansion is currently planned to take place during Stage Three, and likely after the first three years of operation. However, any expansion would be conditioned upon a review of the Specification 9 (Registry Code of Conduct) set forth in the template Registry Agreement to ensure compliance with L’Oréal’s business model. 3. Stage Three Depending upon the analysis of the evaluations undertaken in Stage Two, L’Oréal may begin to implement the permanent migration of Internet traffic away from the TLDs in which L’Oréal’s domain names are currently registered, and toward the new L’Oréal family of gTLDs. It is in this stage that L’Oréal also may implement its decision to extend registration rights to licensees or strategic partners, depending upon compliance with Specification 9 as noted above. The dates of such expansion are subject to change depending upon business, strategic, and industry factors at the time. After consideration of the following factors: analysis of L’Oréal’s existing domain name portfolio; internal analysis of marketing initiatives; and the fact that L’Oréal will have full control over the number of registrations in the .MATRIX gTLD namespace, L’Oréal expects that the number of domain name registrations will be less than 10,000 in the first five years of operation. 4. Stage Four Based on its experience during the initial stages of operation, and based on its experience with any expansion implemented in Stage Three, L’Oréal will assess whether its business plan and expansion strategy should be augmented by extending registration rights to a broader class of licensees, including potential customers of L’Oréal. It is anticipated by L’Oréal that changes to the domain name industry, and particularly the impact of .BRAND gTLDs, may take approximately five years to be realized and assessed. Any decision to expand the gTLDs beyond corporate, qualified subsidiary⁄affiliate, and licensee use will take into account this experience as well as the technical analysis of potential expansion. The potential use of the .MATRIX gTLD will also be driven by L’Oréal’s future business strategies as identified in its annual report and investor filings, see http:⁄⁄www.loreal-finance.com⁄eng⁄key-figures. |
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