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Revision as of 09:57, 23 December 2012
| Status: | Proposed |
| Type: | Generic |
| Category: | Industry |
| Priority #: | 152 - Uniregistry, Corp. 763 - Donuts (Lone Fields, LLC) |
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.furniture is a proposed top level domain name in ICANN's New gTLD Program.
Current Applicants[edit | edit source]
- Donuts (Lone Fields, LLC)- The company raised $100 million capital from numerous investors including multi-billion dollar venture capital and private equity funds and top-tier bank in support of its application for 307 new gTLDs, including .furniture. Its plan is to offer the TLD internationally to provide a unique identity for all parties engage in the furniture industry to utilize the Internet for economic growth. The company partnered with Demand Media to provide back-end registry solutions and AusRegistry to provide DNS services and DNSSEC.[1][2]
- Uniregistry, Corp. - Frank Schilling, a domain name investor, formed the company and invested $60 million to apply for 54 new gTLDs including .furniture. The company partnered with the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) to provide back-end registry solutions. The company plans to operate the .furniture domain name space neutrally and considers it a specialty TLD that provides a unique online space for entities engaged in furniture business and interested in creating an online identity using the .furniture TLD.[3][4]