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| Status: | General Availability |
| Type: | Generic |
| Website: | toplevel.design |
| Twitter: |  @YourDotDesign
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.design is a top-level domain that was delegated to the DNS Root Zone in ICANN's new gTLD expansion program on January 24th, 2015 .[1] Top Level Design was the original Registry operator of the TLD and is its Registry; In April 2021, GoDaddy acquired .design from Top Level Design.[2]
The TLD's Sunrise period began February 24 and will ended April 28, 2015. The EAP started May 5, 2015 and ended May 12. General Availability began May 12, 2015. [3]
Previous Applicants[edit | edit source]
- 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] This applicant submitted a Public Interest Commitment, which can be downloaded here.
- 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] This applicant submitted a Public Interest Commitment, which can be downloaded here.
- 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.
- Design Trend Registry Inc.- (Momentous), submitted 4 total applications.The company is based in Canada and Aimee Deziel is the contact person. [8]
- Starting Dot, a start-up registry company based in France that has submitted 5 TLD applications[9][10] It withdrew .design in June, 2013[11]
Private Auction[edit | edit source]
In a private auction that occurred in September 2014, Top Level Design won the rights to the string over the other applicants. The winning bid was not revealed.[12]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Delegated String, ICANN.org Retrieved 04 Mar 2015
- ↑ GoDaddy Acquires MMX, .club, and .design TLDs
- ↑ http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/program-status/sunrise-claims-periods/design
- ↑ Parent company of .Co Internet applies for 13 top level domains (here’s the list)
- ↑ Top Level Domain Holdings Becomes Largest New gTLD Applicant To Date Applying For 68 Strings
- ↑ Donuts Inc eye popping list of 307 new top-level domains
- ↑ Uniregistry Corp. applies for 54 new top-level domains...
- ↑ Momentous’ .sucks bid “about creating dialogue”, DomainIncite.com
- ↑ Our Top Level Domains-.design
- ↑ Another contention battle confirmed as Starting Dot reveals five gTLD bids
- ↑ Todays New gTLD Withdrawals, DomainIncite.com Published and Retrieved 6 June 2013
- ↑ Top Level Design Wins .design Contention Set DomainNameWire.com; Retrieved 25 Sept 2014