The Trademark Clearinghouse is one of the enhanced rights protection mechanisms established by ICANN as part of its new gTLD program. The Trademark Clearinghouse will accept and authenticate rights information, and will support both trademark claims and sunrise services, for all new gTLDs.

ICANN recently announced it has appointed Deloitte and IBM as service providers to the Trademark Clearinghouse – Deloitte for authenticator/validator services, and IBM for database administration services.