.design

Status:	Proposed
Type:	Generic
Category:	Industry
Priority #:	420 - STRAAT Investments (NU DOT CO LLC) 673 - BET Inc. 684 - Starting Dot 1128 - Top Level Domain Holdings 1144 - Uniregistry, Corp. 1169 - Top Level Design 1300 - Momentous (Design Trend Registry Inc.) 1742 - Donuts (Black Avenue, LLC)
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.design is a gTLD proposal submitted to ICANN's new gTLD expansion program.

Applicants

Several companies submitted their applications to serve as registry operator for the TLD including:

1. Starting Dot, a start-up registry company based in France that has submitted 5 TLD applications
2. Top Level Design, submitted 10 total applications. The company partnered with CentralNic to provide back-end registry services.
3. STRAAT Investments, the parent company of .co Internet submitted its applications for 13 domain name strings including .design. The company partnered with Neustar to become its back-end registry service provider.
4. Top Level Domain Holdings Ltd.- The company filed 68 new gTLDs for its own behalf. Minds + Machines will provide back-end registry services.
5. Donuts filed for 307 new gTLDs under different company names, Black Avenue LLC applied for the .delivery string. The company's back-end registry service provider is Demand Media.
6. Uniregistry, Corp.- It is one of the 54 new gTLDs filed by the company.
7. BET Inc.- The company is based in Japan and John Kane of Afilias is the main contact person.
8. Design Trend Registry Inc.- (Momentous), submitted 4 total applications.The company is based in Canada and Aimee Deziel is the contact person.

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