20(d) Explain the relationship between the applied-for gTLD string and the community identified in 20(a)

Prototypical answer:

* RELATIONSHIP TO THE COMMUNITY *

The proposed top-level domain name, “GMBH”, is without any doubt widely known among the general public as the most often used legal form of a legal form designation of companies. All companies with the ending “GmbH” have to be registered before using the name. Therefore there is a very strong relationship between the applied-for string and the name of the community.


* RELATIONSHIP TO THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS *

The .GMBH Community Members are over 1.4 million companies that are currently using GmbH as their legal form. There cannot hardly be a stronger relationship between those entities and the applied-for string, since the string “Gmbh” identifies their legal representation.


* FURTHER CONNOTATIONS *

The string “GMBH” has to the applicant’s knowledge no further connotations.

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