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Revision as of 15:42, 5 June 2013
| Status: | Proposed |
| Type: | Generic |
| Category: | Industry |
| Priority #: | 420 - STRAAT Investments (NU DOT CO LLC) 673 - BET Inc. 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[edit | edit source]
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][3]
- Top Level Design, submitted 10 total applications. The company partnered with CentralNic to provide back-end registry services.
- 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]
TLDH & $15mm Auction Funding[edit | edit source]
On February 26 2013, Top Level Domain Holdings Ltd. announced that it had entered into a funding agreement worth $15 million to be used in the case of auction for a specific unnamed TLD. The investor will not receive ownership of the TLD but a share of future revenues. TLDH did not name the TLD that the funds are directed for, and it is in 11 head to head contentions and 12 featuring more than one contender.[9]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Reveal Day 13 June 2012 – New gTLD Applied-For Strings
- ↑ Our Top Level Domains-.design
- ↑ Another contention battle confirmed as Starting Dot reveals five gTLD bids
- ↑ 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
- ↑ TLDh Gets 15 Million for A Single Top Level Domain Name Auction, DomainNameWire.com Published and Retrieved 26 Feb 2013