Commercial Connect LLC: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 01:07, 11 January 2022


Type:	Privately held
Industry:	Internet Industry
Founded:	2000
Founder(s):	Jeffrey Smith
Headquarters:	1418 S 3rd St. Louisville, KY 40208
Country:	USA
Website:	www.dotshop.biz
LinkedIn:	Commercial Connect Llc.
Key People
Jeffrey Smith, CEO Dr. Steven Locke, CIO

Commercial Connect is a technology company applying for the .shop new gTLD with ICANN. Its bid for the .shop TLD is supported by major retail associations and individual retailers like Macy's. The company claimed that there are already 30,000 .shop domain names pre-registered with BestRegistrar.com, which will be officially registered once the TLD becomes operational. Jeffrey Smith is the CEO of the company. ^[1] In December 2011, US National Retail Federation Foundation Director Richard Last joined Commercial Connect's board of directors^[2]

Commercial Connect is one of 9 applicants for the .shop TLD, making .shop one of the most highly contested TLDs. However, Commercial Connect is one of only two companies that has applied for the TLD as a community applicant, this means that it will only be delegated to Commercial Connect if they are able to prove that their application has broad support from a clearly defined community. The other applicant that has applied through community priority evaluation, GMO Registry, also applied for the string as a non-community gTLD, in what seems to be a back-up plan if community status is denied, Commercial Connect did not do this and only applied as a community applicant - making its path to delegation and implementation more restricted and difficult.^[3]

Partners[edit | edit source]

The company's bid for .shop new gTLD is supported by the following entities: ^[4]

Macy's, Inc.
Chase Securities
Merrill Lynch
Morgan Stanley
Housing Capital Company
Former Fed. Chair and Treasury Secretary G. William Miller
U.S. Senator Richard G. Lugar (IN)
Former U.S. Senator Birch Bayh (IN)

References[edit | edit source]

[1] Company Overview

[2] NRF director joins .shop applicant

[3] ViewStatus, gTLDresult.ICANN.org

[4] Endorsements and Partnerships Past and Present

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+'''Commercial Connect''' is a technology company applying for the [[.shop]] new gTLD with [[ICANN]]. Its bid for the .shop TLD is supported by major retail associations and individual retailers like Macy's. The company claimed that there are already 30,000 .shop domain names pre-registered with BestRegistrar.com, which will be officially registered once the TLD becomes operational. Jeffrey Smith is the CEO of the company. <ref>[http://www.dotshop.biz/content/news Company Overview]</ref> In December 2011, US National Retail Federation Foundation Director Richard Last joined Commercial Connect's board of directors<ref>[http://domainincite.com/nrf-director-joins-shop-applicant/ NRF director joins .shop applicant]</ref>
-Established in 2000, '''Commercial Connect''' is a technology company applying for the [[.shop]] new gTLD and to serve as registry operator if approved by the [[ICANN|Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers]]. Its bid for the .shop TLD is supported by major retail associations and individual retailers like Macy's. The company claimed that there are already 30,000 .shop domain names are reserved with BestRegistrar.com, which will be officially registered once the TLD becomes operational. Jeffrey Smith is the   CEO of the company. <ref>[http://www.dotshop.biz/content/news Company Overview]</ref> In December 2011, US National Retail Federation Foundation Director Richard Last joined Commercial Connect's board of directors. Last also serves as chairman emeritus of Shop.org. <ref>
+Commercial Connect is one of 9 applicants for the [[.shop]] TLD, making .shop one of the most highly contested TLDs. However, Commercial Connect is one of only two companies that has applied for the TLD as a [[Community TLD|community applicant]], this means that it will only be delegated to Commercial Connect if they are able to prove that their application has broad support from a clearly defined community. The other applicant that has applied through community priority evaluation, [[GMO Registry]], also applied for the string as a non-community [[gTLD]], in what seems to be a back-up plan if community status is denied, Commercial Connect did not do this and only applied as a community applicant - making its path to delegation and implementation more restricted and difficult.<ref>[http://gtldresult.icann.org/application-result/applicationstatus/viewstatus ViewStatus, gTLDresult.ICANN.org]</ref>
-[http://domainincite.com/nrf-director-joins-shop-applicant/ NRF director joins .shop applicant]</ref>
-==Management Team==
-Th management team of Commercial Connect include: <ref>[http://www.dotshop.biz/content/staff Administration]</ref>
-* Jeffrey Smith, CEO
-* Dr. Steven Locke, CIO
-* Brad Yeager, COO
-* Sheila Wilson, CFO
-* Ethan Galyon, Customer Support Mgr.
-* Daniel Smith, Sr. Programmer
 ==Partners==
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 * U.S. Senator Richard G. Lugar (IN)
 * Former U.S. Senator Birch Bayh (IN)
-==Competitor==
-[[GMO Registry]], a subsidiary of [[GMO Internet Inc.]] offering global internet services including domain name registration, web hosting, global online security services, e-commerce solutions, and Internet media is the strongest competitor of Commercial Connect on its bid for the .shop string. <ref>[http://domainincite.com/nrf-director-joins-shop-applicant/ NRF director joins .shop applicant]</ref> <ref>[http://www.dotshop.org/about/ .Shop by GMO]</ref>
 ==References==
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