.montblanc Domain

Writing instruments, watches, and leather goods framed the .montblanc application in ICANN's 2012 New gTLD Program. Luxury accessories carry a concentrated counterfeiting exposure, and pens in particular are among the most widely replicated luxury products, sold through storefronts that depend on a domain reading as plausibly official.

The string is also the name of the highest mountain in the Alps, one of the round's clearer collisions between a trademark and a geographic feature of international significance — a category the program handled inconsistently, since natural features had no equivalent of the public-authority support required for city and regional strings. The extension is not currently active in the DNS root zone and is not available for registration.