.dds
| Status: | Proposed |
| Type: | Generic |
| Category: | Professional |
| Priority #: | 760 - Top Level Domain Holdings 1853 - Google (Charleston Road Registry Inc.) |
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.dds is a proposed TLD is a proposed TLD in ICANN's New gTLD Program. D.D.S. stands for "Doctor of Dental Surgery."
Current Applicants[edit | edit source]
- Top Level Domain Holdings Ltd.- It is one of 68 applications that the company has filed on its own behalf.[1] This applicant submitted a Public Interest Commitment, which can be downloaded here.
- Google (Charleston Road Registry Inc.)- Google applied for 101 TLDs.[2]
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.[3]