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Status: Proposed
country: International
Type: Generic
Category: Commerce
Priority #: 304 - Dot Registry LLC
460 - STRAAT Investments (NU DOT CO LLC)
472 - Afilias
1098 - myLTD GmbH
1334 - Donuts (Over Corner, LLC)

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.ltd is a proposed TLD in ICANN's New gTLD Program.

Current Applicants[edit | edit source]

  1. STRAAT Investments (NU DOT CO LLC), the parent company of .co Internet is an applicant for the domain name string. It is one of the 13 new gTLDs applied for by the company with ICANN. Neustar has been selected by STRAAT Investments to provide back-end registry services for the TLD. [1]
  2. myLTD GmbH - This applicant submitted a Public Interest Commitment, which can be downloaded here.
  3. Dot Registry LLC - The TLD failed its initial evaluation in June 2013 due to its responses to the financial questions in the application; it is eligible for extended evaluation.[2]
  4. Donuts (Over Corner, LLC), has applied for 307 TLDs. This applicant submitted a Public Interest Commitment, which can be downloaded here.
  5. Afilias

Former Applicants[edit | edit source]

  1. LTD Registry, LLC - This application was WITHDRAWN. It was the first applicant to leave the contention set.
  2. C.V. TLDcare - WITHDRAWN; the second applicant to leave the contention set, May 2013.[3]

Objections[edit | edit source]

Jeff Bullock, the Secretary of State for Delaware, has raised concerns about new gTLD applications for .inc, .corp, and .ltd. He believed that the applications do not adequately safeguard consumers, businesses, the public at large, state regulators, or the internet itself from the gTLDs being potentially used for fraudulent or misleading purposes.[4] Delaware's lenient company laws make it the state US corporations are most registered in.

References[edit | edit source]