.restaurant
| Status: | Proposed |
| country: | International |
| Type: | Generic |
| Category: | Food & Drink |
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.restaurant is a proposed TLD in ICANN's New gTLD Program.
Current Applicants[edit | edit source]
- Top Level Domain Holdings Ltd., It is one of 68 applications that Top Level Domain Holdings Ltd. has filed for on its own behalf.[1]
- Uniregistry, Corp., Domainer Frank Schilling's company applied for 54 new TLDs.
- Famous Four Media (dot Restaurant Limited), applied for 61 TLDs.
- Donuts ((Snow Avenue, LLC), applied for 307 new TLDs.
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.[2]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ gTLD Application Update 92 applications submitted, TLDH.org
- ↑ TLDh Gets 15 Million for A Single Top Level Domain Name Auction, DomainNameWire.com Published and Retrieved 26 Feb 2013